Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

I worked closely with a seasoned board member to trace this back to a lack of product strategy—both articulated and aligned. With her help, I wrote the first strategy document for Headspace, which eventually led to the complete reimagination of Headspace , maximizing growth for our guided mindfulness product and adjacent spaces.

Strategy

The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

By aligning on shared business objectives, you can guide teams toward decisions that benefit the broader product strategy. Managing Unrealistic Expectations Stakeholders often have high expectations for product timelines or the potential impact of new features. Suggested Solution : Managing expectations early is crucial.

Strategy

The Product Guy

JULY 19, 2025

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Product Research

Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Lack of team resources. Now, developing an in-house solution typically requires a long development cycle, model testing, and ongoing maintenance—which can easily deplete both financial and human resources. What are the 4 major elements of a product strategy? Outdated technology.

Data Visualization

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.

Reporting Tools

The Product Guy

JULY 29, 2025

Each deep-dive article delivers practical advice, actionable frameworks, and product strategies you can use immediately. The series explores where AI creates leverage, where it distracts, and how to lead with sharper judgment across every level of product work — from Associate PM to CPO.

Product Research

Gocious Blog

JULY 15, 2025

In today’s volatile manufacturing landscape, the gap between product strategy and market reality has never been more costly. Global manufacturers face unprecedented challenges: supply chain disruptions, rapidly shifting customer preferences, and economic uncertainty that can render traditional forecasting methods obsolete overnight.

Product Strategy

Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Understanding Product-Market Fit in the Context of Larger Organizations In a growing tech company, product-market fit is no longer just about proving a product’s value in the market—it’s about scaling that value to reach broader segments, managing customer expectations, and optimizing resources.

User Testing

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

These are just a few ways acting on product analytics can empower Apu, optimizing decision-making, and enabling smarter resource management. With the right tools, your product team can move beyond blind experimentation and make impactful decisions that drive growth. ” signs actually work. Consider what this means for you.

Data Visualization

Userpilot

JULY 19, 2025

Plus, Userpilot’s replay feature requires zero extra code or dev resources. Track product usage and user behavior data Lastly, I always look at product usage analytics. Customer segmentation ensures your personas accurately represent distinct user groups, eliminating guesswork from your product strategy.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A roadmap with a dedicated budget, resources, and clear goals aligned to your strategy. I’m sure you’ve experienced it. So, I am proposing something new — a reverse roadmap separate from your core, forward-facing, marching toward the future roadmap. What would this roadmap look like?

Roadmap

Modus Create

JANUARY 15, 2025

Greater resource demands: Developing, training, and scaling AI systems can stretch budgets and overwhelm teams. Jill has experienced product development from all angles, including engineering, product management, product strategy, product marketing, co-founding multiple startups, and leading sales.

Analytic Tools

Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

In this episode of Productside Stories, our host Rina Alexin talks to Rachel Owens , product executive and growth expert. Rachel shares how shes helped SaaS products scale from $1M to $10M in a year. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls, build strong GTM alignment, and refine your product strategy for sustainable success.

User Testing

Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

When data collection is messy, product managers lose visibility, teams waste hours chasing answers, and user experience suffers. Heres how data fragmentation hurts your product strategy and development: Fragmented data can cause flawed strategic decisions Every product decision starts with a question: Whats driving retention ?

Data Visualization

Productside

JULY 29, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training What Is Good Product Strategy? That disconnect (between what ships and why it should matter) is the direct result of skipping the hard work of a good product strategy and rushing straight to feature sequencing. Sound familiar? The prescription? It’s theatre.”

Product Strategy

Reveal

JULY 29, 2025

Below are the essential architectural components needed to deliver scalable analytics: Cloud-Native Infrastructure Analytics solutions must deploy elastically, expanding or contracting resources based on usage patterns. Enable self-service exploration through intuitive drag-and-drop dashboards, reducing the dependency on developer resources.

Embedded Analytics

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The article also discusses the importance of continuous learning in product management, the value of professional certifications like the New Product Development Professional (NPDP), and provides insights into resources for further development in the field.

User Testing

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 18, 2025

Positioning is not product strategy. AI is reshaping how products are built, but it’s also reshaping how they need to be positioned. Proof-of-concept revenue doesn’t mean the solution is delivering real, long-term value. First-call sales stories matter.

Positioning

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 25, 2025

And just like any core system (sales, product, support), it must mature with the business. It’s something that evolves quarter by quarter with product strategy, customer understanding, and value delivery.” Pricing = Product Strategy Chris argues that pricing is tightly coupled with product strategy.

Feedback Software

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Apple is seeking a highly experienced Digital Product Data Manager to join its Worldwide CSO Technology team. In this role, you will work with product managers to drive automation across key digital content processes and serve as a key resource for short-term and long-term deliverables for their content technology roadmap.

Analytic Tools

Gocious Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

Do you want to learn how to align your product strategy with your overall business goals? Here’s the secret formula: Flexibility + Strategic Planning = Product Line Alignment. use an agile product roadmap. So, how do you solve the equation? It’s simple….

Agile

airfocus

JUNE 25, 2025

Lucid Software’s Chief Product Officer Dan Lawyer offers a metaphor that reframes how we think about product strategy and product roadmap disruption, direction, and progress. The sail: Stands for strategy and roadmaps – the elements that must be constantly adjusted to maximize momentum.Â

Feedback Software

Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 30, 2025

The “appetite-driven” approach to product development where teams set fixed timeboxes (usually six weeks maximum) and vary the scope instead of expanding timelines. The exact process for running effective “shaping” sessions that collaboratively define projects before committing resources.

Startups

Business Acumen Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

How to Create a Winning Strategy : Master the art of strategic thinking and planning. Product Strategy and Roadmapping : Explore the key concepts of product strategy and learn how to create successful product roadmaps. Online Courses: Flexible, self-paced learning at your convenience.

Books

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 15, 2025

The product management round includes 2 onsite days of case studies to assess complex problem-solving, product execution , and cross-functional collaboration.    Expect 3 case studies conducted by a peer or a senior PM, which assess your skills in product sense and product strategy.

Analytic Tools

Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

This approach can free up internal resources, reduce time to market, and provide access to niche skills, especially in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things. This can include: Product strategy: Roadmap definition, market research, feature prioritization.

Analytic Tools

Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 24, 2025

Diego will also show you how to measure activation accurately, ensuring your growth strategy is both sustainable and effective. Framing and Hard Conversations Ryan Singer, Founder of Felt Presence Product Strategy Prioritization After gathering extensive customer insights, shaping aligns teams on what to build.

Customer Feedback

Business Acumen Institute

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When rework is required, more resources are wasted. Projects are connected to products, strategy, and finance. These issues appear when people acquire systems that don’t meet the needs of a supported operating department. Or when a software project is undertaken without complete business requirements.

Reporting Tools

Gocious Blog

MAY 20, 2025

Success in complex product development environments hinges on more than just launching new offeringsit requires strategic alignment, operational agility, and the ability to see the full picture.

Product Strategy

Modus Create

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Dont hop on the AI hype train without a clear strategy Pat Sheridan, CEO of Modus Create , advises that AI should augment and support existing digital initiatives, not be an isolated investment. Without aligning AI with broader business objectives, companies risk wasting resources and failing to deliver real value.

Reporting Tools

The Product Guy

JANUARY 29, 2025

If youre looking for actionable strategies to level up, you wont want to miss this. In the article, I share a personal story of how celebrating one team win helped us realign our product strategy and deliver results we never thought possible. Weekly Updates : Fresh, actionable strategies delivered every week.

Article

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 17, 2025

Product management  The product management round at IBM features standard PM interview questions. Study up on common product strategy , analytical , design , execution , and estimation questions. Study with Exponent’s Data Science Interviews course. Explore these programs on IBM’s Entry Level jobs page. 

Analytic Tools

Reveal

JUNE 27, 2025

It’s a core part of modern product strategy. Compared to traditional enterprise business intelligence tools, embedded platforms shift analytics from being a siloed department resource to a native product advantage. Embedding analytics isn’t an enhancement.

Embedded Analytics

Gocious Blog

JULY 8, 2025

In industrial manufacturing, product roadmaps are more than just timelines. They’re essential tools that help product managers align global teams , manage complexity, and drive long-term product strategy.

Roadmap

Business Acumen Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

How do we then develop new opportunities and ideas or innovations that allow us to take the company into the future, what are the resources we need, and how do we put the numbers together? People processes projects, products, finance, and strategy. It allows us to say where is the business right now?

Data Visualization

Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2025

With enough user input, you can spot exactly where your product strategy should head, saving resources and focusing on improvements that will genuinely matter to your audience. A quick poll on potential feature ideas can tell you if its worth exploring or if your time is better spent refining what you already have.

Customer Feedback

Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

The fewer highly-coupled systems, and the fewer bottlenecked shared resources, the less coordination is required. This coordination requires planning, in an ongoing fashion. There is a theoretical continuum from no-coordination to pure synchronous action.

Agile