The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael After what seemed like months of work, our product was emerging from stealth mode. The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. No choices = no product strategy. Choice made.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

I’ll keep this article not attached to the product itself but in the process of building it and it’s the current process up until now. Alice Product Manager”- Without Product Vision, any direction will be taken. This research was based on areas that are either directly or indirectly related to my product.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Consumer product management is more like a series of proverbial sprints with new products where B2B product management is more analogous to a marathon of adding chunks of value to existing products with a new products peppered in to keep pace. Both components collectively form the vision for the product.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 7, 2022

At ProductPlan, we are revolutionizing how a company delivers products to market by elevating product organizations to the heart of strategy and execution. This vision holds true with our own organization as well. We started with the rocks—these are the major items that we’re tackling to achieve our vision for the year.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. Let’s take a look at them.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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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.” This particular aspect of product management requires PMs to do what most people find uncomfortable… say “no.”. The importance of maintaining a product vision.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Well, th at’s the role of a product strategy. My favorite definitions of strategy are the simplest I’ve found. The one I use most is this: a strategy is what we choose to do. A simple representation for our product strategy. Is this thing you’re asking with our mission, vision, value proposition?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

You can download the template for free from romanpichler.com/tools, and you can find more information on how to use it in my post The GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. Use your vision and product strategy to make the right decisions.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

If someone is referred to as product owner, then the individual should own the product in its entirety—like Word in the example—and not just a product part—such as the ability to save a document. While using a strategic and tactical product role is a common scaling technique , it is best applied when the product is stable.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. I know in a lot of feature factories, product teams don’t engage with customers that often. 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?

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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. Radhika is co-Founder of Radical Product Thinking. She has been based in Singapore for the past two years, will be speaking at BoS Conference USA Online as well as running online product masterclasses in the lead up to the event.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2019

Start With A Vision. Your success as a product manager is pinned directly to the positive contributions to the firm’s bottom line. That means, your product’s business needs to hit the target in the market and fulfill your commitment to the bottom line of the company. Vision stems from passion for an idea, a cause, a goal.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Start with company vision and direction.

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

At ProductTank Montevideo (Mvd) we celebrated World Product Day earlier this month with a presentation from an awesome product leader, VP of Product Strategy at Rootstrap, Neville Reeves. He explained the rules and challenged us to complete the exercise. Building a product is a continuous improvement process.

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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. So, how does a product manager take ownership of more than just backlog management? Developing a Product Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. It can easily be backed up with the lean concept of building strategies, measuring impacts, and learning to improve. It is noted that some of the dimensions take time to define so invest the right amount of time to define the strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2024

The definition of strategy is a high-level plan toward your goals under conditions of uncertainty. Take Apple’s Vision Pro for example. It’s a legitimate strategy, that resonates well with Apple’s iPhone strategy. That’s what this exercise is about. In the tech world, there are often many right answers.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Tips for creating customer use cases – for product managers Today we are talking about how to create and use customer use cases to guide product design. Our guest is Dr. Lilac Muller, VP of Product Management at Kymeta Corporation. 18:41] How does the use case impact product vision and decision-making?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Lead the Product. 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

OCTOBER 2, 2024

As the VP of Product Management at HiveMQ, Yury oversees HiveMQ product discovery and delivery by the Product & Engineering team. In his role on the leadership team, he is responsible for shaping and executing their product strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

Our vision is to bring a messenger-first, personal experience to all customer and business communication. Our principles help us make decisions about strategy, roadmaps, design, and more. All together, our mission, vision, and principles inform and guide our daily work – they’re part of what makes us different.

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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. Complement your organization’s vision.

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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. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

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 need to create your vision and define your strategy accordingly?—?simply All of that doesn’t mean you should not plan ahead. You should.

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

In this post, I look at the value of asking great questions, cover a few strong sample questions and suggest some exercises to help you generate your own insightful questions. Do not go into a product management interview without preparing questions for your interviewer. This is not a “one size fits all” exercise.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 18, 2023

After the exercise, regardless of exactly what shape your roadmap is in, everyone should have a better idea of what success looks like and how to get there together. Connect to the company vision Annual planning provides an opportunity to take a beat and ensure that each product and the company are still moving in the same direction.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. Widening the Scope from Solutions to Opportunities.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

Whether it’s staying on the same page as the development team during a sprint or creating buy-in on the product strategy and roadmap, these solutions streamline communication, minimize confusion, and provide centralized repositories for crucial information. Moreover, they strengthen work relationships and facilitate alignment.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It’s about aligning feedback with your product goals and the company’s vision A simple framework you can use: Impact vs. Effort: How impactful is the feedback, and what’s the effort required to implement it? What are the overarching goals of your product? What long-term vision do you have for it?

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

In product management, communication skills are a fundamental component of a product manager’s success. Effective communication is one of the essential product manager soft skills that involves conveying the product vision, goals, and requirements to diverse stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And any solution can be labeled as a “strategy” once its scope includes understanding of competitors and the tactics to beat them. So if you are a PM aspiring to think more “strategically,” try this simple exercise of asking “why” to everything you do. Now we are getting to strategy! Keep going! And so forth.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Product planning is the iterative process that prepares every stage of the product development life cycle, from the initial idea through launch and further development. Product planning focuses on the customer and business outcomes that the product should achieve. What is NOT product planning.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A great roadmap helps PM’s achieve the following: 1, It ensures the product team understand what they are working towards, by aligning the product to the company’s short term and long term goals. Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

How would you improve your favorite product?” A PM can only make improvements to a product if he is intimately familiar with that company’s vision and product strategy. You really want a product manager who asks the right questions and validates assumptions? What was the product vision for your team?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It’s about turning a vision into reality. But connecting the dots between the activities of a particular product development team and the overarching corporate vision can be a bit of a stretch for those not steeped in the strategic exercises occurring at the top of the organization. Putting Vision into Context.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Why do we need Radical Product Thinking? Radical Product Thinking is a clarion call for vision-driven product development over the iterative approach that has, for many, become the orthodox approach to product strategy and management. A product, your product, is a mechanism for creating change.

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