Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2023

My intention with this article is to show how product teams can use a product strategy to guide their discovery work and maximise the chances of creating successful products. Luckily, there is a solution: Using a validated product strategy that provides the input of the product discovery work. [5]

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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. By aligning on shared business objectives, you can guide teams toward decisions that benefit the broader product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Traditionally, strategy and execution are often viewed as separate, sequential pieces of work that are carried out by different people. For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. Enter the Cycle. I call these outcomes product goals.

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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. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product.

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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. The company wanted to expand into commercial markets, particularly retail – a perfect fit for Kim’s background.

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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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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. So we teamed up to make that happen.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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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. Instead, strategy discovery focuses on the problem space.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The panel shared practical strategies to help you make that leap successfully: Delegate and Build Trust : Letting go of the “I can do it all” mindset is a critical step in scaling your impact. Lead with Influence : Align teams, shape strategy, and drive organizational vision.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Today we are discussing strategy. This is the foundation for product managers as organizational strategy impacts product strategy. Today, we focus on strategy. 2:28] What is strategy? Don’t just copy a vision statement from someone else; make it real for your company and the people involved in your company.

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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. What is the company’s vision?

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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. As there is no strategy, objectively assessing the impact of the requests is virtually impossible. The strategy is therefore either too big or too narrow.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

a clear and compelling vision. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product. As Marty Cagan states in Inspired : “When done well , the product vision is one of our most effective recruiting tools, and it serves to motivate the people on your teams to come to work every day.”

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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. Executives want faster ROI, not more overhead. Days 130: Observe and Understand 2. Document issues or friction points.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Everyones Pulling in a Different Direction When theres no shared vision, product, engineering, and business teams fill in the blanks differently. Tom put it this way: A storyboard is worth a thousand meetings. When people see the vision, they align faster. Its a strategy for getting things done. It aligns quickly.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it. Decisions related to a new or significantly changed strategy have a very high impact. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Some view it as the product vision , others equate it to the product’s value proposition. What’s more, I like to ensure that product goals are connected to the product strategy and its user and business goals. The product goal is this measure: Only add an item to the product backlog if it helps meet the product goal.

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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. He has since founded and leads the Strategy Generation company. Product strategy is doing that at a product level. Our guest is Bob Caporale.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

While strategy, vision, and execution are critical, there’s a powerful leadership principle that’s frequently overlooked: gratitude. This type of culture can be nurtured by encouraging peer recognition programs or dedicating time in meetings for team members to acknowledge each other’s contributions.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2025

Doug joined us in episode 518 and is back to share battle-tested strategies that will help you fix problems faster and smarter. Edwards Deming Application Questions Looking at your last three product launches, how could you identify where systemic issues caused compromises to the original innovative vision?

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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. Timeboxed Strategizing.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

Basecamp exemplifies this approach by openly encouraging debate and dissent to refine their vision. If your meetings are full of nodding heads and no pushback, youre not making progressyoure just circling the familiar. Every meeting becomes a performance review rather than a space for creative problem-solving.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 11, 2020

But most of our high value work is concentrated in a few areas: thinking about product vision and strategy, piecing together various forms of input to figure out priorities, looking at product from different angles, preparing for major meetings to make sure they are productive.

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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

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. Second, develop the product management team.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. You should therefore do just enough product discovery and strategy work before you start using Scrum and before you add any items to the product backlog.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2020

To this end we’ll be broadening our scope in future episodes, to look at the various intersections that a product team meets in a typical SaaS organisation. This is the age-old product-meets-marketing challenge. They buy into the vision. What’s the scope for those meetings? Des: Go back to the meeting.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Below, Hilary Gridley , director of product management at WHOOP, shares strategies she’s learned to leverage the latest AI tools to not just become a better manager but to level up her entire team. These tactics and tools are practical and actionable, and you can start experimenting with them today, even if you’re not managing.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

You have to work with different stakeholders to define the product vision and strategy, define the set of features that the product will have and figure out a rollout plan. Define Product Vision and Strategy. I recommend you also add to this board the product vision as suggested by Roman Pitchler’s Product Vision Board.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

To mitigate the risk of adding the wrong items to the product backlog, ensure that you have a validated product strategy in place, no matter if you look after a brand-new or as an existing product. Additionally, you should be confident that your strategy is correct, and you should have data to support your view.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 18, 2020

By the way, if you still want to benefit from the incredible strategies and tips the summit speakers shared, along with the exclusive materials my team created, click here for 24+ expert masterclasses from top-of-their-field experts. 1:38] Summit Lessons Learned Meeting. 1:38] Summit Lessons Learned Meeting. 6:36] What worked?

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Customer discovery is key to informing product strategy and there is a mountain of techniques and methods available for conducting customer discovery. Align your vision and product strategy with the strategic direction of your customers business. Arrange the meeting : Agree on a shared date and time each x weeks for the meeting.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

You might not know, for example, which marketing strategy is most appropriate or which sales channels are most effective. The marketer might have to create or update the marketing strategy; the sales rep might have to adapt the sales channels, for instance. Invite the individuals to product strategy review meetings and sprint reviews.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

As the title of this episode conveys, our discussion will weave together topics for aligning customers’ needs and business strategy. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:36] What problems have you ran into related to aligning business strategy and product work? We had a direct-to-consumer product.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

I’ve chosen quarters in the sample roadmap above, but you can use shorter time frames, of course, if you can meet your learning goals more quickly. For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. The fourth and final line states how you intend to meet the learning goals.

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