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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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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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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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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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“My CEO is a Finance Guy Stuck on ROI…”

Mironov Consulting

Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product team hard to prioritize all engineering work solely on ROI. Most first-time CEOs come from some functional role: sales, finance, marketing, engineering, occasionally product management. (Or (combining a series of similar conversations).

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Making Effective Product Decisions: Tips for Deciding with Stakeholders and Dev Teams

Roman Pichler

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. For a revenue-generating product, this might be someone from marketing, sales, support, and finance.

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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.