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What Exactly is a Product Strategy?

Roman Pichler

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? How Does the Strategy Relate to the Vision and Roadmap?

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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Golden rules for roadmap management. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’. It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’.

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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Should Product Roadmaps Have Dates?

Roman Pichler

What Product Roadmaps Are (in a Nutshell). To start with, let’s briefly recap what a product roadmap is. I view a roadmap as a high-level plan that states specific benefits a product should provide over a certain timeframe, which may range from six to 12 months. Ensure the Roadmap is Realistic. Why Dates Are Beneficial.

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Visual Notes for Richard Rumelt’s Book “Good Strategy, Bad Strategy”

The Product Coalition

This book can help you understand key concepts dealing with strategy, its foundation, and key environmental factors at play that influence its shaping. I read “Good Strategy, Bad Strategy” book three times. In doing so I hoped to understand how to approach the product strategy for the product I am working on.

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Effective Use of Product Roadmap Software to Align Your Product Strategy

ProductPlan

Vital to delivering successful products at Clickatell , an effective product roadmap can quell the confusion and missteps that often derail well-meaning product delivery organizations. Roadmaps provide the required context to understand how individual initiatives combine to meet strategic objectives. Product storyline.

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How to Improve Product Adoption: Proven Strategies for Product Managers

Alchemer Mobile

Product adoption is a key piece of any successful customer acquisition strategy or onboarding program. Understanding how, when, and why (or why not) customers become power users or high-value customers can drive ROI, inform future product roadmap decisions, and lower customer acquisition costs (CAC). So, what is product adoption?