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Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy)

Lenny Rachitsky

Wiz hit $100 million ARR within 18 months (the fastest growth in startup history) and, five years in, is generating over $500 million ARR.

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Maximising Stakeholder Buy-in to Product Strategy and Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

1] They might include senior management, marketing, sales, service, operations, finance, and HR. Keep the other groups in Figure 1 informed about changes in the product strategy and product roadmap , for example, by inviting subjects to bigger review/demo sessions and having one-on-ones with context setters.

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Delete to Accelerate: Transforming Your Product with a Reverse Roadmap

The Product Coalition

When my plans to delete were deleted I’ve tried many tactics to make space for ‘maintenance’ activities on product roadmaps, including declarative statements like ‘40% goes to product health’ backed by capacity plans. Value targets so enticing that executive leadership wouldn’t dare vote them down. They never work. I was pissed.

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How to Be a Truly Great Head of Product: Strategy

The Product Coalition

In this series, I look at what I wish I had known when I started as Head of Product… Summary Understanding strategy allows you to effectively delegate, motivate and align so you can move from a nice boss to an effective leader. There’s no separate ‘product strategy’ from company strategy?—?strategy

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

For example, these stakeholders are likely to include representatives from marketing, sales, support, and finance for a commercial product. Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap.

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Product Strategy Depends on Company Strategy

Mironov Consulting

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    We can’t build a sensible product strategy in a vacuum. 

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Should Stakeholders Be on the Product Team?

Roman Pichler

For an end-user-facing product, this usually requires a UX designer, an architect/programmer, and a tester/QA engineer to be members of the product team, as Figure 1 shows. [2] Such a team, however, lacks the expertise to make all product decisions, especially strategic ones. Here are three common ones.