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For example, you could be a product and a feature owner on a larger product, or you could be a portfolio owner and at the same time, manage one of the products in the portfolio, assuming that this neither leads to biased product decisions nor sacrifices sustainable pace. For example, I am writing this article using Microsoft Word.

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The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily. Examples : “Offer a weight loss mobile app”, “Become the number one weight loss app provider”. Examples : “Everyone who owns a smartphone”, “Business users and consumers”.

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For example, the marketer must be able to create the right marketing strategy for the product. The specific tasks the coach should carry out include helping the team members collaborate, for example, by using a Kanban board, facilitating meetings, and removing blockers and impediments. [2] This shows how important the role is.

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Abner shares real-world examples of navigating failures, spotting unvalidated solutions, and prioritizing effectively on roadmaps to stay ahead of the curve. Abner dives into governance strategies and the importance of validating user needs to avoid costly mistakes.

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To discuss how you might help a struggling team, let’s use an example. If you believe that the development team needs your help, then talk directly to them, for example, after a Daily Scrum. You might say, for example, “How are things going? You might say, for example, “It seems to me that the development progress has been slow.

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To make these recommendations more concrete, let’s look at an example. How can you capture the right user stories, for example, if you don’t know for sure who the users are and why they would want to use your product? For example, has the business strategy changed or have key people left? What are the business goals?

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For example, we might want to increase engagement, but not yet be sure how to measure engagement. For example, Slack has a number of integrations. Tweet This Returning to our Slack example, shipping more integrations doesn’t create value unless customers or users use and find value in those integrations.

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We tend to make assumptions in five different categories: Desirability assumptions Viability assumptions Feasibility assumptions Usability assumptions Ethical assumptions To illustrate these five types, let’s set up a context for our examples. For example, a customer might want a solution (desirability), but they aren’t willing to pay for it.

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To make this more concrete, let’s look at an example: Objective : Grow the product management team. As the example shows, OKRs are often written so that the objective is qualitative, and the key results are quantitative. Below is an example of how such a product roadmap might be captured and the elements it might contain.

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For example, ensure that the individual’s role and responsibilities are clear; help the person grow as a product professional, be it by coaching and mentoring them or by encouraging them to attend training courses; offer clear and helpful feedback and hold them accountable for meeting agreed goals. Third, develop the organisation.

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Give people a choice about the products they work on, for example, by using self-selection. Use, for example, the CEDAR model and appreciative inquiry techniques to offer feedback in the right way and help people get back on track. Don’t forget to capture the learning and development measure, for example, on a learning roadmap.

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You might not want to disappoint John in the example above, you might worry that saying no will anger him and lead to conflict, or you might not want to be seen as a naysayer but somebody who has a can-do attitude and wants to help. Why do some customers view it as crucial, to stay with the example above?

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Describe the specific value it should create, for example, “increase engagement,” “generate revenue,” or “reduce development time by removing technical debt.” Prioritised : Place the goal in the right position on the roadmap considering, for example, its semantic dependencies to the other goals or its cost of delay.

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The opposite is true: You can empathically address unhelpful and inappropriate behaviour, as the following example shows. These often reveal the person’s feelings, for example, if someone speaks loudly and has a red face, they are upset or excited, no matter how carefully they mince their words. Cultivate Curiosity and Open-mindedness.

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These are typically brand-new and young products as well as products that are experiencing a bigger change, for example, to extend their life cycle by addressing a new market segment or by replacing some of the technologies. For example, can it be effectively marketed, sold, and serviced? Can the product be successfully offered?

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Let’s say, for example, that the objective is to “increase engagement.” This is done by using higher-level key results as lower-level objectives, as the following example shows. The key results might then be “simplify user journey A” and “enhance feature alpha.”. Figure 1: Cascading OKRs.

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For example, these stakeholders are likely to include representatives from marketing, sales, support, and finance for a commercial product. Get to know people and, for example, have lunch or coffee together, be it in the same room or online. Example decisions rules are consent , unanimity , and product person decides after discussion.

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An example for a product that helps people improve their eating habits might be “help people eat healthily.”. For example, “offer a weight loss mobile app” and “become the number one weight loss app provider” are not effective visions. A concise product vision is easy to communicate, understand, and remember.

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For example, if you work on a subscription product (e.g. For example, if you work at a startup that sells a digital whiteboard product, you likely have an organizational buyer (maybe someone in finance or an IT manager) and end-users (the people who use the digital whiteboard to do their work).

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Examples of Opportunity Solution Trees What are some examples of opportunity solution trees? We have countless examples of companies that created lovable products, but those products didn’t create enough value for the business and they were ultimately shut down. For example, the following are opportunities: I’m hungry.

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If you manage a group of product people, for example, as the head of product , I hope that the article will help you determine if the group’s empowerment is sufficient. You manage the stakeholders, for example, by inviting them to roadmapping workshops and sprint review meetings or by having regular one-on-ones with them.

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New technologies alone introduce change and uncertainty—think of the Internet of Things, Blockchain, machine learning, and generative AI, for example. For example, has the business strategy changed or have key people left? For digital products, this is hardly ever the case in my experience. Borrowing from Dwight D.

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Such a team owns an architecture building block, for example, a layer, a subsystem, or a collection of components or services, as figure 1 illustrates. In the worst case, each team creates its own user experience and user interface design, its own business logic, and its own data layer, to stay with the architecture example shown in figure 1.

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Figure 1: The Product Portfolio and Product Strategy Using Microsoft Office as an Example In Figure 1, the strategies of the individual products—Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—implement the Office strategy. Another example is YouTube, which is available in three variants—standard, premium, and kids.

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Instead, they provide a product portfolio, think of Microsoft Office/365 as an example. Let’s take Microsoft as an example again. Figure 2: Applying the Strategy Stack Figure 2 is an example of how the Strategy Stack might be applied at Microsoft at the time of writing. [3] As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough.

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You might not know, for example, which marketing strategy is most appropriate or which sales channels are most effective. Some fellow authors include the stakeholders, for instance, Steve Haines in his book The Product Manager’s Desk Reference , whereas others don’t, for example, Marty Cagan in his book Inspired.

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For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. For example, for a strategy workshop, you might want to choose the following agenda: Welcome and check-in. Use consent, for example, when working on the product roadmap and when setting sprint goals.

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Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Validating solution ideas : Using, for example, product demos , usability tests, and A/B tests.

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For example, the marketer has to create the marketing strategy, and the development teams have to design and build the product. You might do this, for example, by running collaborative product strategy reviews. For example, make time during the sprint to answer urgent questions from the development team members.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

To better understand how the goals in figure 1 can be applied, let’s take a look at an example. This helps the individuals create an effective sales and marketing strategy, for example, and to make the right architecture and technology decisions. You can also access the contents of this article on my YouTube Channel : Sample Goals.

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