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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

The following tips will help you with this. A stakeholder is anyone who has a stake in your product, who is affected by it, or who shows an interest in the offering. Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap.

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Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

Roman Pichler

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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My Product Strategy Model

Roman Pichler

There is no point in worrying about the product details and writing user stories if a sound product strategy is missing. But what exactly is a product strategy? How does it differ from a product roadmap and how do the two plans relate? And what’s their relationship to the product vision and the product backlog?

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Leading without Being the Boss: Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

For instance, the marketing strategy, the user experience (UX) design and technology choices have to align to successfully acquire new users, increase conversion, or meet another product goal. Becoming a t-shaped product professional and using a learning roadmap to develop your skills will help you with this.

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It’s Not a Set of Goals and It’s Not A Roadmap: Aatir Abdul Rauf Talks About Product Strategy

The Product Coalition

Aatir Abdul Rauf Read a copy of Aatir Abdul Rauf’s LinkedIn post below to find out more: Product strategy is one of the most misunderstood product manager (PM) topics. It’s not a set of goals. It’s not a roadmap. Seven questions that product strategy aims to answer: What problem are we solving? It’s not a vision.

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Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

Roman Pichler

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.