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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. 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).

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

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.

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Product Strategies for Non-Strategists

The Product Guy

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. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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How to Distinguish Between Your Product Roadmap, Product Strategy, and Product Vision

UserVoice

So, if the vision isn’t the responsibility of the product team, what is? Let’s use a hypothetical example — a space travel. Sales, operations, technology… all of it should be working toward a common vision.

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Take Action: How to Align Product Strategy with Product Management

The Product Coalition

How I came to realize product strategy doesn’t exist in isolation “Two roads diverged in a wood and I?—?I I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”?—?Robert So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” your launch event.

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10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

You can download the template for free from romanpichler.com/tools, and you can find more information on how to use it in my post The GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. This would turn your product roadmap into a feature soup, a random collection of features.

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Product Strategy Lessons From Henry Ford

The Product Coalition

In our world, this would have been considered a great product strategy. As you are reading this, replace Ford’s car with your own product. In Ford’s case, “the masses” needed the car to be able to expand their convenient travel distance and make it part of their day-to-day life. reliability for example?—?and