Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

Document issues or friction points. Team Values & Vision : If you inherited a scattered crew, anchor them with a unifying statementthis shapes how you collaborate, decide, and deliver. From refining roadmaps to aligning with executive vision, youll learn how to orchestrate your entire product function around real business outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Directionality.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

That’s where a market requirements document comes into play. The market requirement document is a strategic artefact that product managers usually write. What is included in a market requirements document (MRD)? A typical market requirements document answers the following questions: What market is the product targeting?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Computer Vision (CV) integration is a light of transformative promise in the ever-changing domain of healthcare. Advances in computer vision in healthcare, particularly in object detection, provide clinicians with the superpowers of unwavering focus and observation. What is computer vision in healthcare? Check it out.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Typically, there are two big phases in bringing a product from vision to launch: planning and execution. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap? Who are the right stakeholders and partners to work with as you are setting your vision, strategy, and roadmap?

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Themes are critical building blocks for your product’s strategy, each Theme is usually a statement describing an idea that is critical to the vision of your product. Themes typically describes abstract ideas or concepts critical to your product vision. Epics are large features that together makes up a theme. Quarterly Objectives.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2020

This clearly stated document communicates to the team how they should engage with me and is always visible and accessible for any new team members joining. On one of the mentor live streams, the importance of a strong strategy and vision was discussed. When I started in my role I felt that there wasn’t much of either.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Staples of the Product Manager Job Description Most product management job descriptions still list responsibilities for vision, strategy, customer discovery, growth mindset, thought leadership, etc., You don’t even have to create the document. Ask AI to assemble everything into a simple presentation that energizes stakeholders.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. Product strategy sits in between the mission and vision and the plan, either at the company level or at the team level.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2021

Lack of vision… Continue reading on Product Coalition ». Those who have worked in the software industry for a while have likely witnessed a project that went off the rails.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

When I need to take a break from writing, I save the document. But the ability to save the document is a feature, a part of the overall product. A feature owner is an individual who owns a capability end users can interact with, for example, the ability to persist a Word document or to edit it. Word is the product.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Track how many prototypes you create and how many ideas are generated from hackathons, and gather feedback on usability. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

It is customary for strategy documents to be living documents, and frequently modified as the product manager receives input and feedback from three main areas: the market as a whole, customers specifically, and voices from inside the company. This framework covers five major questions: What do we aspire to be? Where do we play?

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Create a living document. Align diverse teams around product vision. Translate vision into action. This deck-formatted guide is packed with tips for reviving your product roadmap before your annual planning is complete—and will only take you about 10 minutes to get through. Avoid too much detail. Deliver the right value.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 19, 2023

Roadmaps inspire the team by laying bare the ‘why’ and the bigger vision, creating a sense of shared purpose and common objectives. Essentially, you are selling the team on your vision of the future. Roadmaps guide the creation of sales materials and release communications, which are marketing documents. So sell, sell, sell!

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? However, I don’t necessarily agree with the idea that its user feedback “versus” the founder’s vision.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 26, 2023

He has also been a long-time supporter of the University of Iowa Institute for Vision Research, which is creating cures and solutions everyone can afford for vision diseases. Innovation is people, culture, vision, and execution. Never write a product requirement document that isn’t prioritized.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Figure 2: Roman’s Goal-Setting Framework with Product Management Artefacts The goal-setting framework shown in Figure 2 suggests that a product team needs four different objectives: a product vision, user and business goals, product goals, and sprint goals. Let’s take a look at them.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

He’s worked with businesses that have used plenty of other tools – like Amazon Narrative for example – to guide their communication and process: “You find they’ve spent weeks on these documents, whether they’re decks or narrative memos, so by the time these things are shared they feel so finished that people don’t give good feedback.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Before OpenAI, Karina was at Anthropic, where she led post-training and evaluation work for Claude 3 models, created a document upload feature with 100,000 context windows, and contributed to numerous other innovations.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 10, 2023

We make sure those factors are accelerating the organization toward its ultimate outcome— its mission and vision. We end up just documenting the dysfunction of our teams rather than providing clarity about how the decision is made. We use a shared document, in a shared space, in a shared log to write down the decision that was made.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers. Use a product vision ; a product strategy with user needs and business goals; and a product roadmap with product goals (aka.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). For example, is our engineering sprints solving the problems that align with our Orbis product vision and release goals?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2021

Less than 1% have documented competencies with scorecards for rating performance. Many competencies we care about weren’t documented. Invision’s Design Team Maturity Report and the book Org Design for Design Orgs also grounded us with visions of what healthy, high-performing teams can do. Determine what “good” looks like.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The reason I say this is because teams put a lot of time and energy into a document that is immediately out of date and often ignored. Communicate Your Vision and Your Process Finally, you want to commit to communicating your vision and your process with your stakeholders.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Known for crafting a strong, unified vision, Ebi empowers her teams to achieve outsized outcomes.

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2018

The big vision was clearly overwhelming – we wanted to change how customers interact on the site; we wanted to build the brand new structure to support a new type of customers, to build the internal admin functions to facilitate internal efficiency; and we wanted to holistically rethink everything to link all the above components.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 22, 2018

Assign each document to its closest point. Choose ‘K’ new points, from the ‘average’ of all documents assigned to each point. Until documents’ assignments stop changing. Improved techniques have helped us make stunning breakthroughs in areas like computer vision, audio recognition, and natural language translation.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

They’ll go off with their designers and come up with a grand vision to toss over the wall to the engineers for implementation. Building great products is a collaborative process that works well if everyone agrees on the product vision and strategy. Foremost you want to openly preach the product vision. Another problem is bias.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 18, 2019

One of the most important skills for a product manager, and for the product itself, is developing a product vision and strategy. The strategy is the document that directs the mass of energy in the same direction significantly moving the needle versus a lot of activity moving in different directions not getting very far.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

Finally, capture your insights and describe the product’s current strategy: the people it serves, the value it creates for the users and business, and its key features, for instance, by using my Product Vision Board. Before you proceed, carefully investigate your board for any major risks and assumptions.

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Melissa Perri

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The top section of our Roadmap outlines our Vision, Challenge, and Target Condition, which reflect the goals outlined in my post on Product Strategy. Management should be goal and Vision setting with a timeline of 6 months to a few years, while teams should be looking at a smaller timeline, from quarters up to 6 months.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 4, 2019

My vision is to post this structure internally so everyone can see it and give verbal updates at our monthly all-hands meetings. Since we log many actions in our product’s database, I used my background in SQL and R to create a shared document with product KPI’s all in one spot. I’m not to this point yet. But we’ll get there.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

How does an opportunity solution tree connect with a product vision? Company factors: How does each opportunity support your company mission, vision, and strategic objectives? An opportunity solution tree is a living document that should evolve as you learn from your discovery activities. What is an opportunity solution tree?

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