The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. In this series, I look at what I wish I had known when I started as Head of Product… Summary Understanding strategy allows you to effectively delegate, motivate and align so you can move from a nice boss to an effective leader.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2022

How I came to realize product strategy doesn’t exist in isolation “Two roads diverged in a wood and I?—?I So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” How I defined product strategy would define my professional career.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2021

How to differentiate and build a competitive advantage that you can sustain and defend over time Photo by Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels Creating your product strategy is hard work. In it, I describe in lenght, with tools and examples, all the steps to create a successful product strategy.

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Gocious Blog

JULY 19, 2023

The main objective of a product strategy is to create a plan to help a company achieve its overall goals. To successfully execute the product strategy, a product manager should have access to the necessary resources and employ efficient development practices to meet the goals.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 16, 2022

Video: Product Strategy, Systems, and Frameworks with Sachin Rekhi. Slides: LinkedIn Learning: Product Strategy, Systems, and Frameworks. I was recently invited to speak as part of the Product Management Learning Series hosted by LinkedIn Learning. We covered a variety of my favorite product frameworks.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. This should be your first step into product strategy. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it. in detail?—?which

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2023

Measuring and analyzing product metrics provides insights into how your product is being used, identifies areas for improvement, and helps you make informed decisions to optimize performance. 1: User Engagement Metrics User engagement metrics are used to measure the level of user interaction with a product, service, or platform.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision?

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2024

In SaaS, a product experience strategy provides the building blocks for making customers stay, engage with your app, and eventually become loyal advocates for your product. So what strategies can help you elevate the user experience? What is a product experience strategy? And where do you start?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Photo by Barn Images on Unsplash Best 10+ Resources to awaken your strategic brain Books, articles, and strategy gurus As you climb the career ladder, you realize you need to allocate more time to strategic work and less to your well-known tactical tasks. Books My first go-to type of resource is books.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The roadmap guides and informs everyone involved with the product from ideation to market. Using Your Product Strategy and Product Vision to Plan Your Roadmap. Product strategies must be rooted in the overall vision of the company and product. The product roadmap then reflects that strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

I will share my insight about the implications for the product team for both cases. Product-Led strategy: User-Centric Approach, Customer-Centric Metrics Focus on self-service onboarding and scalability. Rely on the inherent value of the product to drive customer acquisition, retention, and expansion.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2019

One of the biggest challenges product leaders face is convincing leadership of changes in product strategy. If you can clearly present to leadership that you have product-market fit and stickiness of customers, that’s a strong justification for more focus or resources on the growth side of the equation.

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ProductBoard

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Clear product strategy might be but one of the three pillars of Product Excellence—but it’s the one companies struggle with most often. Think of your product strategy as a high-level plan for keeping your team aligned and working on the right things.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The good news is that there is another, much more effective way to ask for additional resources, and here it is. When it comes to asking for additional resources?—?like like hiring someone for your team, or allocating more engineers to your product?—?there Photo by Vlad Che?an I found myself struggling.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a Q&A a couple of months ago, someone in the (virtual) audience asked if they should be working on their strategy now, or if they should wait until things calmed down again. Your strategy should never be etched in stone; you always have to be conscious of changing conditions for your customers and how best to meet their needs.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

Accelerated by the shift to distributed teams and remote working, these tools have become invaluable resources. Tools in the product stack increase productivity and efficiency. While these may not “cost” anything per se, they still require resources to execute, manage, and communicate.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I still believe these remain the very best resources on the topic. So I wanted to share the collection of posts I've curated over the years from incredible practitioners, writers, and thought leaders across the industry both in and outside of product roles.

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Amplitude

MARCH 9, 2021

Building and executing a product strategy is difficult, to say the least. Forty-five percent of all products fail to launch on time, while 20% of that number fail to meet internal targets. The key to overcoming those statistics is the expectations that your team places upon your product strategy itself.

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Dear Strategy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For those of you who are regular followers of the Dear Strategy podcast and blog, you know that, beginning with this episode, we will be moving away from answering direct strategy questions, and moving toward discussing real-world applications of some of the concepts that we’ve been discussing here over the past 4 years.

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ProductPlan

MAY 25, 2021

Product Strategy is Important. One of the most important roles of a product manager (PM) is setting the product strategy. The strategy, by way of a roadmap, is the document that drives team alignment. Consistent strategic results are essential because as teams scale, wasting time and resources gets easier.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 11, 2022

What product managers need to know about having an ecosystem strategy. Today we are talking about strategy. It’s an important topic because our work as product managers and innovators should be in alignment with our organization’s strategy, but strategy may not be what you think it is.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2020

Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about why we’re so hostile to including features on product roadmaps. Features have long been the basic unit of measurement that product development teams track. Of course not.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. And if no one realizes it’s wrong or adjusts course quickly, a promising product can become a lost cause. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 19, 2022

But what about Product Direction activities? Strategy, Roadmapping, and Objectives are not backlog-driven. The difference in activity types, image from my book Product Direction. And finally, Strategy is a bit less normalized but still affected by time triggers. They are time-based. Why do we fail then?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Companies had to shift their product strategy. They had to shift their product strategy. I’m going to have to take on that more focused leadership role, put a strategy in place to steer us out of this conundrum.”. Instinctually, when one encounters scarcity, there’s a natural tendency to hoard resources.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a Q&A a couple of months ago, someone in the (virtual) audience asked if they should be working on their strategy now, or if they should wait until things calmed down again. Your strategy should never be etched in stone; you always have to be conscious of changing conditions for your customers and how best to meet their needs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

In a recent product management insights report , as many as 57% of PMs said they don’t spend enough or any time road mapping. They also said they wished they had a clearer product roadmap strategy. In addition, product managers said that direct customer feedback and insights were the best sources of their new ideas.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It gave me a framework for integrating what a product manager does, and I have since taught it to many other product managers. . Today we are discussing strategy. This is the foundation for product managers as organizational strategy impacts product strategy. Today, we focus on strategy.

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Dear Strategy

AUGUST 25, 2019

Dear Strategy: “How do you make sure there is an effective inter-working between different levels in a dynamic strategy evolution?”. Dynamic Strategy Evolution” – that could be the name of a band! Most large companies have global product management functions and regional product management functions. End of story.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Companies had to shift their product strategy. They had to shift their product strategy. I’m going to have to take on that more focused leadership role, put a strategy in place to steer us out of this conundrum.”. Instinctually, when one encounters scarcity, there’s a natural tendency to hoard resources.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2021

Some solutions are resource-heavy undertakings, while others can be achieved more minimally. It ensures we’re focusing on the right areas with the right resources, and it’s the lever that moves the team from the problem space to the solution space ”. My team recently took ownership of our Customer Support channel strategy.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 10, 2019

But shouldn’t the guiding document for the product strategy be more than just a set of ingredients? Since a product roadmap is often the defining document for encapsulating the execution of product strategy, it would be awfully nice if it also communicated the objectives of that strategy, but this is rarely the case.

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Dear Strategy

JUNE 24, 2020

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we answer the following question…. Dear Strategy: “How do you balance the creation of a long-term strategic plan with the resources needed to execute it?”. Strategy is an equation. On one side of the strategy equation is what you want to achieve. It’s pretty much as simple as that.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2022

Accelerated by the shift to distributed teams and remote working, these tools have become invaluable resources. Tools in the product stack increase productivity and efficiency. While these may not “cost” anything per se, they still require resources to execute, manage, and communicate.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 21, 2024

Despite some significant challenges, 2024 is the year of product It’s official, 2024 is shaping up to be the year of product. We asked what people considered their product organization’s biggest challenge, and 38% of organizations identified economic uncertainty as the most significant challenge.

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