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517: How to conduct an AI Design Sprint – with Mike Hyzy

Product Innovation Educators

This combination helps ensure that the final product concept isn’t just technically feasible but also genuinely meets market needs. Teams can quickly move from initial concept to validated prototype, with each element providing different types of input and validation along the way.

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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The 10th Annual Product Management Awards Winners

The Product Guy

In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication. Harpal now works as an independent consultant and interim Chief Product Officer (CPO) advising companies and teams globally on strategic product development and innovation. The Best Product Consultant.

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OKRs and Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Sample goals are acquiring customers, increasing engagement, and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt. A better way to determine the right roadmap goals is using an overarching product strategy , as Figure 4 shows. [8] Its goals and objectives consequently have to be aligned with the strategy.

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Why Technical Debt Roadmaps Don’t Work

ProductPlan

To understand the problem with technical debt roadmaps, we’ll start with a quote from renowned philosopher, Homer Simpson. It’ll go away ,” the famous TV dad advised his family on dealing with challenges. In this article, we’ll discuss why technical debt roadmaps don’t work. We call it a mistake.

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Product Discovery Tips

Roman Pichler

Explore the key assumptions and risks in your product strategy and business model by systematically testing and addressing them in an iterative fashion using, for example, observations, interviews, surveys, and prototypes. The stakeholders should regularly attend product strategy and roadmap reviews, as well as sprint review meetings.

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Moving at the Speed of Demand

Product Management Unpacked

UPMC’s ability to respond quickly to market demands boils down to how its teams are aligned with its enterprise-level strategies – a primary focus of Claire’s role. Unlike traditional product managers, Claire is less involved with the technical aspects of product management. To her, product strategy and marketing are very alike.