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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

This process of allowing these different channels to paint the clearest perspective of that user is invaluable in making sure that product is being built with the user’s goal in the products vision. The value that your product brings to your users comes from taking the vision of the user your team has assembled.

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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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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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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Then I could choose to address middle aged men who suffer from unhealthy eating habits and who don’t exercise enough. A tool like my product vision board helps you capture and validate your product strategy. Let’s look at a brief example and say that I want to create a product that helps people eat healthily.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

It’ll describe some points divided as follows: Setting the product vision Getting people onboard (stakeholder management) to make it happen How to talk with other areas to get to this vision Why is setting a Product Vision important? Alice Product Manager”- Without Product Vision, any direction will be taken.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 6, 2024

To improve your vision and strategy skills: Immerse yourself deeply in your domain for an extended period. Once you have a solid vision, share it with your team. Previously, he was Head of Product for Commercialization at Waymo and led product teams at DoorDash. JM is also a coach and advisor focused on conscious leadership.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

’ – 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. ’ or ‘What challenges does the product leader/hiring manager want to solve?’

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. Product strategy sits in between the mission and vision and the plan, either at the company level or at the team level.

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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

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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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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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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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

A thorough persona workshop, including profile building and persona activating exercise, can take up to two days. Persona Activating Exercises. If time allows, I strongly recommend you do some persona activating exercises. The two most frequent exercises I use in my workshops are: Write lines. Prioritization.

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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. All together, our mission, vision, and principles inform and guide our daily work – they’re part of what makes us different. Intercom’s R&D principles. Intercom’s mission is to make Internet business personal.

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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. This is not a “one size fits all” exercise. The goal here is to learn about the product vision. A Starter List of Solid Questions to Consider.

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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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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2019

You should still follow the “ does this need to be a meeting ” exercise: Can this meeting be accomplished in an email? If you’ve gone through the exercise and decided it still merits a meeting, always set an agenda in advance so everyone comes prepared and knows what success looks like. Can this email be accomplished in a chat?

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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. Widening the Scope from Solutions to Opportunities.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 8, 2023

We decided to pursue the OCI award as a learning exercise and a moment of inspiration for the company. We have a ten-year vision that sets big priorities. We decided to pursue the OCI award as a learning exercise and a moment of inspiration for the company. Then we do strategy planning for the next three to five years.

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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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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

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. Lead the Product.

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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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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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