The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

a clear and compelling vision. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product. Sometimes the Product Vision was something spoken by a visionary leader, but unseen. Or worse of all, sometimes there was just no Product Vision at all.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

But this taught me an important lesson: There is no point in worrying about the product details if a sound product strategy is missing. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. I have seen companies use a mixture of portfolio and product strategies instead of separate plans.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. Use it to make better product decisions. Information from the front lines is critical when helping product decision-makers prioritize what to build next.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Learn how a detailed vision can prevent common product pitfalls, create alignment, and drive strategic decision-making with the Radical Product Thinking framework. Read more » The post Why your vision may be killing your product (and what to do instead) appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Scrum is a simple framework designed to facilitate the development of complex products. As a consequence, different people have suggested different ways to apply the product goal. Some view it as the product vision , others equate it to the product’s value proposition. Figure 1: The Product Goal in Context.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. The importance of measuring the small outcomes associated with their product goals or visions is the key to churn expected benefits throughout the product life cycle. What is S.M.A.R.T?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test. Sound familiar?

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? What is a product strategy framework?

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. I wanted to share with you the framework I use when doing this. 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.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. But it doesn’t tell you where to go and how to get there—that’s what the discovery and strategy work does.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. But what Scrum lacks in my mind, is a way to involve the key stakeholders in strategic product decisions and the product discovery work.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

In the agile scaling framework LeSS, the role is referred to as “ Area Product Owner “ A component owner owns an architecture building block like a user-interface layer or a payment service. SAFe Product Owner. The agile scaling framework SAFe uses its own product owner role, the SAFe product owner.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Five years ago I wrote about how product strategy means saying no – you must ruthlessly protect your product from feature creep. . Saying no, however, is just one part of a successful product strategy. The meeting point of company and product strategy. Des: Welcome to Intercom on Product.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If, for example, developing the product requires the application of advanced machine learning algorithms, then you’d have to explore if appropriate machine-learning frameworks exist, or if it’s possible to develop the algorithms in house. Viability means that developing and providing the product is viable from a business perspective.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2023

What Is Product Strategy Exactly? And Why It Matters Product strategy is a creative act, to “do something new,” approaching an opportunity from a different angle. — Self So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” I snapped out of la la land.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? Why is a Product Vision Important?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Sam, now with that experience behind him and as Head of Product at Fivestars , outlines: What a good product strategy looks like. How to create a good strategy. What Is Good Strategy? Product strategy also doesn’t need to focus on product vision.

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Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“Our vision is to be the best!” If you’ve ever sat through a company strategy meeting and left with your head spinning, you’re experiencing a common problem. First, there’s the vision – those sweeping statements that try to inspire but end up saying nothing. Want to get better at Product Strategy? Everything!”

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you thought there were a million ways to define product management, product strategy might have it beat by a longshot. Just think about how many ways product strategy is defined within your own organization. It’s the number one thing that makes product strategy both challenging and frustrating at the same time.

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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

MAY 28, 2022

Photo by Kampus Production from Pexels I always try to practice what I preach. When I talk about product strategy, I apply the same methodologies to my own company although my product is not technological. When I had my vision set clearly, I started to plan backward. And one year?

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Guest Post by: Alex Hsu (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Addi Regev]. Why do I need a framework? A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. But why did I choose this framework? Research article.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. The Approach (the Frameworks).

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. Bob is the author of the book Creative Strategy Generation. I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Product leader Aatir Abdul Rauf outlines questions product managers should ask when crafting a product strategy. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Product strategy continues to be a misunderstood concept and energizes many conversations and debates on LinkedIn. It’s not a vision.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2022

Product roadmapping frameworks work in a very similar way. There are a few routes you can take to achieve your product goals. A product roadmap is a holistic visual document that outlines your product’s growth path. Product roadmaps are a good way for organizations to prepare for the future.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Strategy and Change Strategy means different things to different people, so let me briefly share my definition. A product strategy describes the approach chosen to make a product successful. Eisenhower, we could say, “Strategy is worthless.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

You should be aware of new trends, be able to make an informed guess if they are likely to impact your market and product, and decide if a technology needs to be further investigated. This usually doesn’t require in-depth technical skills like being able to write code or understand how a specific machine learning framework is used.

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

Now what about the new framework? In the spirit of using the blog to announce new happenings at Strategy Generation Company , I am pleased to present the latest revision of our acclaimed Strategy Generation Framework! With this said, I found that too many of my clients tended to use these three terms interchangeably.

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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.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Guiding the development team and stakeholders towards product success requires leadership at three levels: vision, strategy, and tactics, as illustrated in following picture. Consequently, do not neglect the product discovery and strategy work. Leadership at Multiple Levels. Additionally, share the workload.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Guiding the development team and stakeholders towards product success requires leadership at three levels: vision, strategy, and tactics, as illustrated in following picture. Consequently, do not neglect the product discovery and strategy work. Leadership at Multiple Levels. Additionally, share the workload.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Naturally, this is extremely frustrating; you know it’s the pathway to a disconnected and incoherent product. Tying everything to a strong value proposition and vision is effectively the kind of thing that produces a cohesive product. A Mini-framework to Drive Stakeholders Towards Problems. Why do you think we need that?

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