Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Teeba shared how she applied continuous discovery ideas and frameworks to her job search. ’ – Tweet This In conversations with hiring managers, Teeba would ask: “What is your product vision, and what product outcomes are you driving?” So if you struggle to go through this exercise at first, don’t get discouraged.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. As Chandra shares below, his framework sits on top of the best strategy wisdom out there (e.g. So we teamed up to make that happen. What exactly is product strategy?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The practice run was so helpful, and at the end of the day we concluded the sprint and felt more confident about the framework. The majority of the attendees had little experience with JTBD, apart from one participant who was more purist about its application and wanted to do some job-mapping exercises before doing the interview,” says Lily.

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Productside

OCTOBER 8, 2024

To meet these objectives, Productside delivered a tailored Optimal Product Management course featuring custom exercises designed to tackle the company’s unique challenges. Productside’s ability to customize training exercises to the needs of their company was crucial in addressing the specific challenges faced by the Charles River team.

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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. In doing so I hope to help demystify what you actually do in the role, provide a framework for assessing what dimensions of the role you are already good at delivering against, and opportunities for improvement on each.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Throughout the whole journey, your customer needs a cohesive experience so they ultimately feel confident in your product, which means it can’t be a box-ticking exercise for one team, but rather a constant concern for multiple teams. We devised two key components to deliver on that vision. A framework for discovery.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Former Staff UX Designer Maureen Rodaro was also key to implementing and evangelizing this type of exercise and a driving force behind pairing product managers and designers. Going through this exercise also revealed that some tasks are in between roles. Frameworks also help them to keep their goals within the appropriate scope.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

There are many frameworks available on building products and the approach varies individual to individual. Hence roadmapping is a crucial exercise which can make or break your product. Hard Skills Required for the Role. This section sets out my philosophy on how to build products. Product Strategy. Product Roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. While I’d like to encourage you to involve development team members and key stakeholders in the visioning, strategising, and roadmapping work, you should lead these activities with the aim to maximise the value your product creates.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I was asked to give a ten-minute overview of my continuous discovery framework and then participated in a fireside chat where the host, Cecilie Smedstad , asked me to go deeper in a few areas. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I recently spoke at the Y Oslo conference in Oslo, Norway.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Version 1 Products Need a Vision and Strategic Roadmap The easiest way to avoid the version 1 product dilemma is to describe what the product will ultimately help customers accomplish, why that outcome is valuable, and in pecking order, the biggest obstacles standing in the way of that outcome. The strategic roadmap is the next layer down.

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Userpilot

APRIL 23, 2023

What’s a product metrics framework? We also look at how product managers can use Userpilot to implement product metrics frameworks. TL;DR A product metrics framework is a set of metrics used to measure the performance and success of a product so that you can improve it. What is a product metrics framework?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I have defined the below dimensions as a cohesive framework. These 8 dimensions will be pillars of driving the vision and business outcomes right after the launch. The frameworks (image 1 &2) highlight the approach to take the product into the market. What are those 8 dimensions for startup onboarding strategy?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 26, 2019

There are lots of decision-making frameworks, and they can all be helpful, but what really helps us make better decisions and improve decision-making velocity? A shared understanding of your customers, problems, and vision helps your whole team make the myriad of day-to-day decisions involved in product.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 7, 2022

This vision holds true with our own organization as well. This year, we focus on the major priorities that help us achieve our vision while maintaining an easy-to-use, delightful, and flexible user experience. Through this exercise, we have uncovered helpful best practices and tips for creating your own customer-facing roadmap.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Instead, you need a comprehensive customer onboarding framework to give you a sense of structure… and set you and your SaaS up for success. A customer onboarding framework is a structured way of thinking about the set of actions, activities, and tools that go into helping a customer experience value. Interactive tours.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

trivago’s vision is to create the best hotel comparison website in the world and the Search & Flow team focuses specifically on the upper part of the funnel when users start their search. First, product work is informed by foundational research done by the trivago UX research team based on the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) framework.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 16, 2025

The Nine Lives exercise reduces the pressure of finding your “one true calling” by exploring multiple exciting life paths. This exercise helps you tap into what truly excites you and brings more energy into your current life, without making drastic changes. Then, tackle each one like any other problem: make a plan.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

To help hiring managers and recruiters, like myself, decide whether or not to interview you, it can be a great exercise to treat your resume like a professional product. As a hiring manager, I want to hire great storytellers, s o the team can work towards a unified vision. . Storytelling.

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ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

Product managers wear many hats, but one of the most uncomfortable ones they’re forced to occasionally don is that of the product vision “Gatekeeper.” The harder part is shooting things down that aren’t bad at face value, but don’t match up with the strategy, vision, and timeline of the overall product.

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UX Studio

MAY 2, 2018

How To Create A Convincing Product Vision To Guide Your Team. The Studio Model: A Framework For Self-Organizing Teams. The post How To Be More Creative: Simple Exercises For Your Team appeared first on UX Studio. Other posts about the relationship between creativity and UX? Distraction Is a Designer Drug.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

How does an opportunity solution tree connect with a product vision? I could try to shoehorn these desires into needs—I need something to fill my time, I need nutrients, and I need to exercise. Company factors: How does each opportunity support your company mission, vision, and strategic objectives?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

You are constantly using your roadmap to influence other departments and align their efforts to your product vision. Here is what you should do next: Validate each of the product ideas using data and insights. (This depends on what delivery framework you use, Agile or Waterfall or Mixed.)

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. The series of choices following a framework = the product strategy. As I considered the merits of each possible option to build a user base, I weighed them against the product strategy framework, the pros/cons, coherence, and value. The north star was clear?—?enabling

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

I looked into a variety of frameworks: Jobs to be Done , Lean Startup , Design Sprint , and Opportunity Solution Trees among others. I even facilitated a few design sprints and started sprinkling in concepts from these frameworks in meetings with stakeholders. I think we need a new framework!” Schedule a meeting of course!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2018

That is what I´m calling “magical framework”. So, in this post I want to do the opposite: I won´t give you one more “magical framework”. If you do not have a clear vision of what problems you are trying to solve, you don´t know which features and tasks to prioritize or the value users will notice in your product.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Direction, Alignment, and Commitment (DAC) framework from the Center for Creative Leadership is a game-changer for making an impact - no matter your role. Direction: What if your CEO sets a vision but ignores team input? Try this interactive exercise. Key Takeaway : You don’t need formal authority to shift a system.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The opportunity solution tree provides a visual framework for thinking through decision-making. However, by applying the framework and using real-world examples we have found that teams quickly start to see the value it provides, and how it might be adapted to suit their needs.”. What did he learn from the process? Business risk.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the other hand, the Scrum Master theses also cover, for example, the relationship with the Product Owner, they deal with agile metrics, and how to kick-off an agile transition, thus moving beyond the original framework of the Scrum Guide. Product discovery using the Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Lean UX frameworks help.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2021

Every company has its own vision of what their customer-facing interactions should look and feel like. This is a big indicator of the importance of human support within the Conversational Support Funnel , our framework for providing efficient, effective, and personal support at scale. Defining “quality”.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. As a product manager, you need to create a vision and strategy as well as a well-defined roadmap. You need to define a framework for decision making.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. As a product manager, you need to create a vision and strategy as well as a well-defined roadmap. You need to define a framework for decision making.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2024

Take Apple’s Vision Pro for example. It’s also a legitimate strategy, and had Apple seen Vision Pro more related to Mac than to iPhone it could have gone down that path too. Here is a framework that will help you understand your choices and regain the freedom to choose, time and again. That’s what this exercise is about.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

This can incrementally add new capabilities to the product and potentially quell a few customer complaints, but without a a unified vision, it can also lead to a lot of partial fixes that don’t attack and solve major pain points in a holistic manner. Use prioritization frameworks Every decision to build a new feature is a judgment call.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. The Vision is brought to life in the Now / Next / Later roadmap, which is supported by Product Goals.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Is it possible to create a framework for non-data decision making to increase psychological safety? The CEO needs to focus on the vision, then agree with the product leadership what the key areas of focus will be in order to deliver that vision – or at least move the needle significantly towards it.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

With your support, we dove into the most result-driven strategies, popular frameworks, and groundbreaking leaders who changed the product management landscape. Employing Blended Frameworks. We see increased usage of frameworks like MoSCoW , DACI , and RICE , but product teams also realize that one framework must not rule them all.

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