Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 22, 2024

If you’ve ever sat through a company strategy meeting and left with your head spinning, you’re experiencing a common problem. Okay… but that’s a target, not a strategy. That’s not a strategy – that’s a feature masquerading as direction. When strategy is unclear, anchor yourself in how your company creates value.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Strategy Discovery Explained What is product strategy discovery? More precisely, it is the process of developing a product strategy whose implementation will likely create the desired value and impact.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. As Chandra shares below, his framework sits on top of the best strategy wisdom out there (e.g. What exactly is product strategy?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. Bob is the author of the book Creative Strategy Generation. I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

2] Figure 1: The Power-Interest Grid The grid divides stakeholders into four groups: crowd, subjects, context setters, and players depending on how interested they are in your product and how much power they have. Decisions related to a new or significantly changed strategy have a very high impact.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 No Strategy The first and most crucial mistake is to have no product strategy at all. When that’s the case, a product is usually progressed based on the features requested by the users and stakeholders. The strategy is therefore either too big or too narrow.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Be clear on the reason why the meeting is needed. What’s the meeting about? For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Carefully consider who should participate in the meeting to achieve the objective you have set.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

From handling feature requests that lack customer validation to managing unrealistic expectations, we’ll discuss practical strategies to maintain alignment and avoid common pitfalls. Through these insights, you’ll be better equipped to handle the pressures of managing up and leading your product toward success.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

How product managers can move from ideas to action Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I speak with Atif Rafiq about how senior product leaders approach strategy development and execution. Input and Collaboration Issues Atif explains that product leaders often struggle to gather useful input and work effectively across teams.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

B2C) Align roadmap structure with development methodology Balance customer needs with development capabilities Maintain appropriate levels of flexibility based on market type Understanding these contextual factors helps product managers create more effective roadmaps that better serve both their organization and their customers.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

So, how do you get started with product analytics ? In this article, we’ll talk about: What product analytics is and why you need a solid strategy. Key steps to build and improve your product analytics strategy. What is product analytics? Why should you have a product analytics strategy?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Is a Product Portfolio Strategy and Why Does It Matter? A product portfolio strategy is a high-level plan that helps you maximise the value a group of products creates. These guide and align the strategies of the portfolio members , as Figure 1 illustrates.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

Business Strategy vs. Product Strategy. A business strategy describes how a company wants to achieve its overall aspiration and create value for its users, employees, and shareholders. The business strategy provides the company with the basis for making the right investment decisions.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It gave me a framework for integrating what a product manager does, and I have since taught it to many other product managers. . Today we are discussing strategy. This is the foundation for product managers as organizational strategy impacts product strategy. Today, we focus on strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

A solid product strategy takes time to build. Here is the method I use for creating a product strategy that makes sense. When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 6, 2025

The path from IC to Chief Product Officer isn’t just about gaining more responsibility it’s about transforming how you think about product development, team leadership, and business strategy. However, she still needed to learn the company’s products, technology, and internal language.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 18, 2021

Creating a product strategy is almost never a matter of answering a few simple questions and figuring it out. They have a solid business but realized that the growth potential there is limited so they pulled me in to help them redefine their vision and strategy. Strategy is not like solving a mathematical equation.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In both instances, Id recommend using an overall portfolio or bundle strategy in addition to the individual product strategies. If I were in charge of the suite, Id use a portfolio strategy that guides and aligns the strategies of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. [1] This is where product portfolio roadmaps come in. [2]

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

How do hybrid product teams stay aligned and effective across time zones and work styles? On Leading Hybrid Product Teams: Hybrid isnt just about tools – its a design problem. Asynchronous work requires structure – not just fewer meetings, but better workflows, clarity, and shared documentation.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you thought there were a million ways to define product management, product strategy might have it beat by a longshot. Just think about how many ways product strategy is defined within your own organization. It’s the number one thing that makes product strategy both challenging and frustrating at the same time.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

But how does this translate to product management and organizational strategy? This perspective can help product managers identify root causes of challenges, anticipate unintended consequences, and understand how small changes in one area might ripple across the organization. Let’s talk in the comments! Interested in More?

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Product Management University

AUGUST 20, 2024

September is right around the corner and that means the 2025 strategy season is here for many of us. For all you product managers out there, here’s something that’ll help you energize stakeholders and separate the pretenders from the contenders when it comes to influencing your product priorities for 2025, and it won’t cost you a dime.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2023

What Is Product Strategy Exactly? And Why It Matters Product strategy is a creative act, to “do something new,” approaching an opportunity from a different angle. — Self So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” I snapped out of la la land.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

If it is not clear who the users are and why they would want to interact with the product, it will be hard to decide which items should be in the product backlog and how important they are. Additionally, you should be confident that your strategy is correct, and you should have data to support your view.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    If these strategies don’t hang together, we each hang separately.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

Days 3160: Align Strategy and Team 3. Meet Each PM individually to see where theyre swamped or excelling. Recommended Templates Product Strategy & Roadmap Review : Uncover your biggest alignment gaps. Handling Tensions & Growth Q : We had a new product built in silos, zero product engagement.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, ensure that the individual’s role and responsibilities are clear; help the person grow as a product professional, be it by coaching and mentoring them or by encouraging them to attend training courses; offer clear and helpful feedback and hold them accountable for meeting agreed goals.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. In this series, I look at what I wish I had known when I started as Head of Product… Summary Understanding strategy allows you to effectively delegate, motivate and align so you can move from a nice boss to an effective leader.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Here’s the easiest way to marry company strategy and product strategy. While meeting those goals is critical to your organization’s success, financial goals themselves aren’t the same as strategic goals. The Downside of Multiple Product Strategies Here’s the first thing you SHOULD NOT DO. Impossible!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Instead of preparing perfect presentations for the boardroom, successful product managers: 1. Incorporate diverse viewpoints into product strategy 4. As organizations grow, product management roles typically become more specialized and focused on smaller components of the overall product strategy.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Guest Post by: Lee Atkins (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. One method that Product Managers are turning too is the Customer Advisory Board. Setting it up. Not locked in.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

Not tied to a solution : Despite its name, I recommend keeping the product vision free from assumptions about the actual product or solution. This allows you to pivot, to change the product strategy and the product while staying grounded in your vision. Who Owns the Product Vision?

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That brings us to the topic of a single market strategy versus strategies for each product and which approach has more strategic benefit to your organization. Customer Value Your target customers are concerned about one thing – executing on their strategic and operational priorities to meet their own business goals.

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