Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This can create tension between product teams and your company leadership or stakeholders —some argue that they can’t coordinate work with the rest of the company without these dates. – Tweet This I’ve written before that date-based “ roadmaps are exercises in futility.” This doesn’t mean we can’t commit to outcomes.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 6, 2024

JM is also a coach and advisor focused on conscious leadership. Conscious leadership involves becoming more aware of your interior world—your thoughts, emotions, and biases. To improve your vision and strategy skills: Immerse yourself deeply in your domain for an extended period.

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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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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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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

At times, product professionals fail to realize the similarities and differences between thought leadership vs people leadership. Professionals may decide to pursue a leadership position to lead a team and guide them towards primary objectives and milestones. The Start of Thought Leadership. Product management is complex.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When Teresa started working with the team at Airship, she led them through the “How to Make Toast” exercise to help clarify orchestration. Principal Engineer Todd Johnson walks the team through orchestration based on the results of the exercise. It can also get leadership buy-in to where a team is heading overall.”–

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. That was a good exercise and that was learning number one: Breaking it down into its smallest pieces and aligning on something and learning together as a team, I think unblocked a lot. What’s the vision? The vision is flight level one for me. It is hard to do true research for a product vision.

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ProductPlan

JULY 30, 2021

Before hiring a product leader, you need to ensure that you understand the most essential product leadership interview questions that can help better inform your hiring decision. . 6 Product Leadership Interview Questions to Ask. Product leadership is about more than bossing around your direct reports.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 16, 2019

I've long found myself unsatisfied with the conventional discourse of what leadership is supposed to look like in Silicon Valley technology companies. These best practices are typically oversimplified into two high-level philosophies on leadership. These two leadership approaches couldn't be more different from each other.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2019

I’ve had multiple occasions recently to reflect on my own leadership philosophy. Not only have I been asked about it explicitly, but in several conversations with friends and others, the topic of leadership has come up with both positive and negative examples. So What is a Leadership Philosophy?

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

Neville started with a “nine dots” exercise (you must link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen). He explained the rules and challenged us to complete the exercise. Start by establishing a clear vision, map out a strategy, and execute a series of tactical moves. A Game of Chess. Opening Game.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Difficult though it may be, a founder needs to step away from the product and relinquish more control to the product function; there were three approaches to easing this process that resonated most strongly with product leaders: Make it a communication and focus exercise.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Through a combination of leadership buy-in, reading, and coaching, they committed to mapping opportunities and testing assumptions before jumping to solutions and found new ways to truly put their users first. This was the situation Sören Weber and the Search & Flow team at trivago found themselves in.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Product leadership is about finding the right business opportunities to accomplish with the right product. Here is a quick exercise to see if the market is ready for you: start with the problems you see today, and ask yourself: when this problem is solved, what will become the next problem? You should.

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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: Set up time with your leadership teams to prioritise the goals for the next few months Share the goals and initiatives that are required to be prioritised before the meeting.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

From prioritization to vision, you need everyone on board and moving in the same direction. That being said, it’s still a learned skill which you can begin exercising today, no matter where you are in your career. Be a keeper of the vision. This north star, the product vision, is your greatest tool for achieving alignment.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Some fundamental principles I found helpful when starting this exercise, Keep it short and sweet so that you can quickly memorize the core message.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In his role on the leadership team, he is responsible for shaping and executing their product strategy. This aspect made reaching out and scheduling calls over the Customer Success (CS) team a low-return exercise for the customers who have already installed and configured our software,” explains Yury.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 26, 2019

A shared understanding of your customers, problems, and vision helps your whole team make the myriad of day-to-day decisions involved in product. The best way to build a shared understanding in your team is simply to never do customer research alone.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2020

?. While it might be obvious that there’s usually a team of people collaborating on the vision and creation of good design, this truth applies just as much to the end user – there’ll be more than one person on the receiving end. Jared points to “experience visions” as a fantastic tool to help guide the decision-making process.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Let’s begin with a definition — Transcendent leadership extends beyond conventional notions of success and influence. It is rooted in the understanding that authentic leadership emerges when we transcend our ambitions and dedicate ourselves to uplifting others and positively impacting the world.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. How can you take responsibility for the vision and shape the future of your product when you don’t control strategy at the corporate level?”.

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Radical Product

APRIL 30, 2020

We’ve learned that it’s OK to start with a rough idea of the direction and discover your vision through iteration. Instead of using iteration to discover our vision, RPT means thinking about the change we want to bring to the world and then engineering our product as a mechanism to create that change. A good vision is not about you.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2017

Asking questions about the value of the components (rather than their function) allows you to build a picture of how they will help you move towards your product’s vision. At this point, if you feel like you need to change direction slightly or reduce the scope of the first deliverable, you can run a “five whys” exercise with the team.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Product Vision We start the workshop with a recap of the product vision?—?why our product vision?—?is Show Me the Money?—?the

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

People with this competence: - Are skilled at winning people over - Fine-tune presentations to appeal to the listener - Use complex strategies like indirect influence to build consensus and support - Orchestrate dramatic events to effectively make a point A good part of our job requires the exercise of influence. It is the only thing”.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity around the product vision, market opportunity, value to the user, how to win in the market, metrics, objectives, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and how the product delivers results for the organization. The north star was clear?—?enabling

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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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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

Does your team (or organization) have a shared Mission, Vision, Strategy, and Goals? Be Curious Not Judgmental: In my course People-First Product Leadership , I do just that - I share how to put people on your team first. A good vision should be clear, punchy, and inspiring. A good vision should be clear, punchy, and inspiring.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2018

He’s earned the gravitas he emanates from decades in software architecture and technology leadership. This seemingly contradictory background in acting has, he tells me, helped his business leadership in many ways. A simple exercise to develop this thinking on your feet is “gift giving”, whereby a participants exchange imaginary gifts.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The role of a Scrum Master is primarily one of servant leadership?—?or or “true leadership”?—?and Sprint Planning with dysfunctional teams will only result in a futile and painful exercise. Read more: Retrospective Exercises Repository.) You need to determine for yourself what works for your organization?—?which

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Earlier last year, before we transitioned to outcome-based planning, the leadership team at Yesware did a thought exercise during an offsite. Start with company vision and direction. To reiterate the obvious, the leadership team needs to set the company vision and direction. Everything flows from this vision.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

The vision? And then start small and take the big idea, take that bigger vision, this longer term plan or dream and then start small, break it down into the smallest, smallest pieces. It’s the predictability of the leadership team, it’s the predictability of you, of me. What’s that big dream? What’s the concept design for this?

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

With that in mind, I started to dig into these articles and relate to how we’re addressing organizational leadership with Path to Agility ®. I wholeheartedly agree with the need to “create balance from the top” as a central tenet of leadership engagement. The Agile Leadership Team. HBR article setup. Balance from the Top.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

Being a Product Manager is a leadership role, not an order-taker role. But first, Product Managers need to demonstrate to founders or executives that progress is happening, so that founders can trust that their vision is being nurtured. A Product vision is key to delivering great products. Shy away from taking initiative?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 18, 2020

In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration – Guest blog post from Radhika Dutt. In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration. Without a clear vision that was centered on the problem at hand, the optics became the primary concern. Radhika is co-Founder of Radical Product Thinking.

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