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Six Qualities of a Great Product Vision

Roman Pichler

It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change. If that’s not the case, then it will be difficult to encourage the individuals to agree to more specific goals and to follow a product strategy and a product roadmap that are based on the vision.

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Competitive Demos – How to Attack Your Competitor’s Strengths

Product Management University

Just like you, they know their own shortcomings and there’s a good chance they’ve been schooled on how to neutralize them with some clever positioning or avoidance tactics. All of this is not to say that you shouldn’t expose their glaring weaknesses if they have them, but hitting their strengths too gives you an even stronger position.

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10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

But it has the following three drawbacks: A feature-based roadmap can give rise to and strengthen a feature-factory mindset where adding features is more important than creating value and making a positive impact on people’s lives and the business. Decline stakeholder requests if they aren’t aligned with the product strategy.

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Product Vision FAQs

Roman Pichler

The product vision describes the ultimate purpose of a product, the positive change it will bring about. Not tied to a solution : Despite its name, I recommend keeping the product vision free from assumptions about the actual product or solution. Do I need a Product Vision and a Product Strategy? Listen to this article: [link].

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

As its name suggests, the grid analyses the stakeholders by taking into account their power and interest; it assumes that people take a low or high interest in your product and have low or high power. Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap.

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How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your Product

Roman Pichler

To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators. This, of course, assumes that you have a validated product strategy and a realistic product roadmap in place. Step 3: Add Health Indicators. But it is not enough.

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Strategic Roadmap Template

The Product Coalition

This year, I learned that November was National Novel Writing Month in the US, and decided to participate in a workshop that would help me speed things up. As you can understand from the name, most workshops are about novels and focus on how to build the plot and the characters that drive it.

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