PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 20, 2020

Product Vision or Product Vision Statement is the long-term goal for a product includes the long-term mission and the motivation behind its creation, along with why it’s important. Product visions, ultimately, serve as the guideposts for the development of the products. What is a Product Vision?

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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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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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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Below is a brief overview of the framework that I use and a few signs of where you should start if you want to run this exercise yourself. Siloed Teams : Teams work in isolation rather than collaboratively, resulting in inefficiencies and a lack of unified vision or approach. Did it help?

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Product Culture

JULY 6, 2022

When working on vision with stakeholders, I like the Cover Story exercise, which I outlined last week. A great exercise to follow the Cover Story is the Back-Plan. Subscribe to my weekly Nano-letter: Sign Up. Subscribe to One Thing Weekly. First Name. Our Privacy Policy. *.

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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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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Resetting Your Customer Retention Priorities: A Team Exercise. Treat this as a collaborative product management team exercise, not an exercise for each product manager. Here’s the most important part of this exercise. Creating Your Product Vision: Two Parts Customer, One Part Product. Seize the opportunity.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

And that’s the ability to create extraordinary product visions that are forward thinking, innovative, and can solve your users’ biggest problems. And because of this it will be almost impossible to move up into leadership roles that require demonstrated experience developing powerful visions. Embrace it.

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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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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

There’s still no real replacement for real-time, dynamic discussions and exercises to foster stakeholder alignment. Drive Alignment with Stakeholders Remote Collaboration Exercises. One of Berner’s favorite exercises to ensure everyone agrees on what they’re trying to do (and not do) is defining Goals and Anti-Goals.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2022

Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome. Take the example of a multipart workshop we ran about the vision of our support products. Warm-up exercise. Exercises (30 min). Intro (5 min).

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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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Radical Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Defining your Why Before setting out to delight customers, we need to start with a clear vision for the change we want to bring about. In shifting to a purpose-driven approach, Paul defined his product vision as promoting kindness among coffee drinkers and Nack was his mechanism for bringing about his change.

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UX Studio

MAY 2, 2018

How To Create A Convincing Product Vision To Guide Your Team. 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. You Are an Addict, Too. The Studio Model: A Framework For Self-Organizing Teams.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about. To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] Let’s take a look at them.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

– Tweet This I’ve written before that date-based “ roadmaps are exercises in futility.” Communicate Your Vision and Your Process Finally, you want to commit to communicating your vision and your process with your stakeholders. They set unrealistic expectations and destroy trust when you can’t uphold them.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 27, 2023

“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. Ultimately, Lily sees the chance to expand ProductPlay to a much broader audience.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2019

Start With A Vision. Successful products begin life with a spark of inspiration and a vision. Vision is, considered a non-negotiable for a CEO, and is often non-negotiable for a product manager. One reason is that not all product managers have the innate sense of a vision for the product.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 27, 2018

The tool that brings order to the chaos is vision. The product vision is like the guiding northern light for the product team, keeping everyone moving in the same direction. It is the responsibility of the product manager to create and share the product vision. Very few great product vision examples exist.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

These numbers will come as the result of all the micro-decisions we make every day, consciously or not–it’s an implicit strategy (which through this exercise has been made explicit). . Is this thing you’re asking with our mission, vision, value proposition? Does it contribute to our current goals at all? Does it require a large effort?

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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. This means that each trio can adjust the RACI to their own experiences.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Prioritization is mostly a rational exercise. I love the quote, ‘Be stubborn on vision, but flexible on details.’ Start with a clear vision of what you want your mobile customer experience to be, and make sure you gather feedback and measure how you’re doing. How can teams respond quickly to what they learn?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Describe and validate the product strategy —the path to realise your vision—before you create your roadmap and decide how the strategy is best implemented, as the following picture illustrates. 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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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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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

Referring to people as product owners who do not manage a product and do not exercise the right ownership is wrong in my mind: It creates confusion and it sets wrong expectations: Someone who owns a product part cannot take on the responsibility of maximising the product’s value and achieving product success.

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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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

These 8 dimensions will be pillars of driving the vision and business outcomes right after the launch. The important point is before jumping to create the strategy, I suggested spending a good time on a small exercise of understanding the Buyer persona to understand the buyer thinking, business goals, channels, influencers, approach etc.

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Product Culture

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There are numerous ways to come up with a product vision. Hopes and Fears is a simple exercise where each individual writes their hopes for the product’s future on one color of Post-it note or index card and then writes their fears on another color. Other ways to reach a vision? Tell me a story. Interested?

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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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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

18:41] How does the use case impact product vision and decision-making? The use case is like a magnifying glass that bring the product vision into focus. Product vision is high-level goals matched with market expectations and opportunity. The toughest thing to do is ask the right question. [18:41]

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But when it comes to orchestrating the exercise, there’s definitely a sweet spot between structure and freedom. You can also cut up or reuse pictures from earlier exercises and tape them up on the wall. Start with a storyboard that includes the big elements of the prototype Draw out the idea on a whiteboard as a team.

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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 But don’t fall in love with your vision, because it will surely change.

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Common themes in product strategy Product strategy writing illustrates that strategy is the link between vision and roadmaps / plans. In product development this the product vision.

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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. That’s what this exercise is about. The definition of strategy is a high-level plan toward your goals under conditions of uncertainty. So how do you choose?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2023

Sketching exercises and paper prototypes can take this one step further so you can walk away with tangible and directional potential solutions. When your brand DNA is well defined, it keeps innovation aligned with your vision for the future. It also helps your teams feel more confident when making choices about what to pursue.

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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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