Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The post includes plug-and-play strategy templates, recommended timelines, the stakeholders to involve at each step, and more 🔥 For more from Chandra, follow him on LinkedIn , and VRChat is hiring ! I worked closely with a seasoned board member to trace this back to a lack of product strategy—both articulated and aligned.

Strategy

The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

You’re Stuckand It’s Because You’re Playing by the Rules In product management, youve been told to follow the rules: stick to the roadmap, build consensus, and hit your OKRs. But what if I told you they’re actually sabotaging your product’s potential? Roadmaps are innovations silent killer.

Data Visualization

The Product Guy

JUNE 12, 2025

Saying no is what separates strategic product leaders from the rest. In this Roadmap to Mastery article from The Product Way Patreon , we focus on one of the most essential, high-stakes skills in product management: knowing when and how to say no — and making that decision stick. Saying yes is easy.

Leadership

The Product Guy

MARCH 4, 2025

Your team is following the roadmap. And yet, your product is stuck. Heres the uncomfortable truth: these very practicesroadmaps, obsessive customer listening, and metrics worshipare strangling your products potential. Roadmaps provide alignment. But heres the problem: The world doesnt care about your roadmap.

Customer Feedback

Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Decide how you can collect product analytics data The next step is to assess your existing data infrastructure to determine whether it can support the data you need. Outdated technology. What are the 4 major elements of a product strategy? This process may reveal gaps such as: Insufficient raw data.

Data Visualization

The Product Guy

JULY 29, 2025

That’s what one PM told me after their team rolled out AI across the product workflow. AI-generated ideas filled the roadmap. That tension points to one of the most underappreciated effects of AI in product teams today. Join The Product Way to access this article and the full Roadmap to Mastery library.

Product Research

The Product Guy

JUNE 17, 2025

Whether you are managing five people or five product lines, the fundamentals of good strategy such as clarity, tradeoffs, and alignment stay the same. Strategic PMs impact the organization, not just the roadmap. The best PMs know how to flex their approach without compromising their principles.

Analytic Tools

The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2025

Feature bloat slows teams down, confuses users, and hides the real value of your product. This new Patreon-exclusive article in the Roadmap to Mastery series explores how to lead feature removals with evidence, clarity, and confidence. But most teams avoid removals because they feel risky, political, or like an admission of failure.

Leadership

The Product Guy

MAY 16, 2025

This new Patreon-exclusive article in the Roadmap to Mastery series explores how to lead prioritization with structure, confidence, and buy-in. Balancing technical constraints, stakeholder agendas, and long-term goals is hard. Even experienced PMs get stuck in opinion-driven debates or lose clarity under pressure.

Technical Review

Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

2 Unique value proposition should be the major criterion for making decisions Roger Cauvin, founder at Dadnab Product strategy should drive all product decisions. 2 Unique value proposition should be the major criterion for making decisions Roger Cauvin, founder at Dadnab Product strategy should drive all product decisions.

User Testing

BrainMates

JUNE 15, 2025

Evolving as a Product Leader: From Execution to Capability By Adrienne Tan At a Glance The Future of Product Isn’t Just Technical. Product leaders are quick to invest in tools, platforms, and tech upgrades but often overlook the human capability needed to bring those technologies to life. It’s Human.

Technical Review

The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

So, how can product managers proactively build and protect trust in their products? In our latest Patreon-exclusive article , part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , we explore: Why trust is now a product featurenot just a brand value. Actionable strategies to integrate trust into your product strategy.

Differentiation

The People of Product Management

AUGUST 4, 2025

AI has become a fixture not only in technology and business but in pop culture too. Executives: The Urgency Dialled Up As with most emerging technologies, new markets, or shifting regulations, senior executives are asking the classic question: “What’s the opportunity, and what’s the threat?” Personally, I’m okay with this.

Artificial Inteligence

Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

This will involve close collaboration with Stripe’s and our financial partners product and engineering organizations to prioritize valuable investments over a multi-quarter roadmap, considering distribution potential, performance, costs, and risks. Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.

Research Software

The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2025

Saying no to leadership Prioritizing customer needs over politics Aligning cross-functional teams These challenges do not reflect a lack of skill. They require balancing diplomacy, data, and leadership under pressure.

Customer Satisfaction

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

As a Manager on the PDO GenAI team, you will be responsible for managing a team of Project Managers to supply product teams with critical data and data labeling for Meta’s GenAI products. You will work closely with Meta product and engineering teams to deliver on Meta’s product roadmap.

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

They are seeking a Mobile Product Manager to lead the innovation and expansion of their field service mobile application across iOS, Android, and various third-party integrations. If you have a passion for mobile technology, field service solutions, and integration-driven product development, they want to hear from you!

Analytic Tools

The Product Guy

APRIL 16, 2025

Innovation doesnt mean chasing every idea or launching fast for the sake of it. It means creating space for experiments, reflection, and learning – even when things dont go as planned.

Framework

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Strategy Strategy plays a crucial role in aligning product development efforts with organizational goals. Since then, the field has evolved significantly, adapting to changing market conditions, technological advancements, and shifting consumer expectations.

User Testing

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

Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Customer-centric approach: Deep understanding of user needs and behaviors, with a passion for creating products that delight users. OpenAI: B2B Growth, Lifecycle As part of the Growth team, you’ll be at the forefront of bringing OpenAI’s technology to the world. Salary 139.000 – 186.000 EUR Apply Here 2.

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2025

As Lead Product Manager for Core Product, youll oversee state-of-the-art technologies, collaborate with top-tier engineers, and develop products that shape the industry. Passion for using AI to create safe and beneficial products. Have a creative hacker spirit and a love for solving puzzles.

Analytic Tools

Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based.

Roadmap

Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

They can change the plan because they are working together – both the business side (sponsors / customers / stakeholders / users) and the technology side (the team creating the product or solution). They can collectively manage technological and market uncertainty about why, what, and how they are doing their work.

Agile

Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Information Should a Product Strategy Provide? I like to think of the product strategy as a high-level plan that helps you realise your vision and that answers the following four questions: Who is the product for? Do You Need a Strategy for Your Product?

Product Strategy

Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

But this taught me an important lesson: There is no point in worrying about the product details if a sound product strategy is missing. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. To ensure that the right technologies are applied, you’ll benefit from using a technology strategy.

Research Software

The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

There are many issues with having clients drive the roadmap. Secondly, waiting for clients to drive the roadmap tends to puts companies in a situation where the backlog becomes too large to practically handle. Is there some niche that your product could fill and get ahead with in the market? Step 3: Creating the Roadmap.

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 No Strategy The first and most crucial mistake is to have no product strategy at all. When that’s the case, a product is usually progressed based on the features requested by the users and stakeholders. The strategy is therefore either too big or too narrow.

Product Strategy

Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates.

Product Strategy

The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

Analytic Tools

Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile.

Technical Review

UserVoice

AUGUST 16, 2016

While you might “own” the product, your product’s vision should be coming from the top of the house. It should be driving everything in your organization, not just product development. Sales, operations, technology… all of it should be working toward a common vision.

Vision

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

In this post, I describe the five layers of the IoT technology stack and how Product Managers can incorporate them into their product strategy and roadmap. And even with all this potential, many Product Managers are […].

Technology

The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

Research Software

Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

What’s more, I like to ensure that product goals are connected to the product strategy and its user and business goals. This helps me choose the right product goals and it ensures that meeting a product goal is a step towards creating the desired value for the users and the business, as figure 1 shows.

Product Goals

The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

Analytic Tools

Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test. Sound familiar?

Product Strategy