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516: Strategic decision making in product management- with Atif Rafiq

Product Innovation Educators

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. He has developed a systematic approach to problem-solving that forms the basis of his book, Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown.

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Product Managers Misunderstood: We Don’t ‘Rule’ Silicon Valley—We Navigate Its Complexities

The Product Guy

Rather than rulers, product managers are navigators—balancing the competing demands of customers, engineers, designers, sales teams, and executives to ensure the right product gets built for the right reasons. While such conflicts can arise, they are not inherent to the role—they reflect poor performance by ineffective PMs.

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Coaching and Discovery in Product. What High-Performing Teams Are Doing Differently [TPG Live Recap]

The Product Guy

The conversation tackled two questions that are defining modern product leadership: How do you make coaching actually work inside product teams How do you embed discovery into everyday work without burning people out or wasting time If you are building product with a team right now, these challenges probably feel familiar.

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Tools of the Trade: Visualizing Discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees

Product Talk

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning?

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Common Product Vision Board Mistakes

Roman Pichler

The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily. Examples : “Offer a weight loss mobile app”, “Become the number one weight loss app provider”. Vision Captures Product Idea or Business Objective.

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.