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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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). Playing to win by Alan G.

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UX Studio

AUGUST 14, 2017

A UX workshop can help you gather the team and brainstorm to make better decisions. Ensure everybody is on the same page by making them more involved in the product development process with these tools. In a UX workshop, we share research results with the participants and let them come up with their own conclusions. Preparation.

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

The podcast will continue to serve as an education tool, and will even be expanded to reflect the full array of business topics that we now cover in our classes and workshops. Now what about the new framework? Although these steps were covered in our classes and workshops, they were not separately indicated on the framework.

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BrainMates

JUNE 20, 2022

With the rapid rise of technology, resilience is also key in the planning of technology and digital strategies by CTOs and tech leaders. However, the topic of product strategy resilience rarely if ever surfaces when talking to product leaders about their product strategies. The post Scenario Gaming.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

Starting with Content and Process as our two pillars, we set out to compile a list of key must-have traits for what we believed made for a compelling product vision, based on our research and own experiences. After exploration, testing and iteration, we arrived at the Product Vision Sprint ?—?a Experience focused?—?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success. Lead the Product. Three Types of Leadership. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

How product managers can move from ideas to action Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I speak with Atif Rafiq about how senior product leaders approach strategy development and execution. In this episode, he shares some insights from that workshop and his experience in product leadership.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But every now and then, for example, when I share the insights with my customers (many of them wanted to use our time together to simply hear how it was), I remember what a great privilege it was to attend this workshop, and I feel truly grateful. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. Let me walk through the entire workshop in the phases with its results.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2021

These activities have been grouped by how they help improve your understanding: Understand the opportunity Understand customers Understand the market Understand how it works for the business Understand how you’ll deliver the solution (could also be product/opportunity) Understand risks Understand how it can work within your organisation 1.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Product Zoom Levels Framework By ADRIENNE TAN Product people often have to switch between different horizons. Frustrations like these can be minimised if we have a framework to check what level we’re operating at to ensure we are aligned in our discussions with our executives, peers, teams and stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. We already knew we could deliver expert guidance via a series of on-site workshops. The 3 steps to product innovation.

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

The podcast will continue to serve as an education tool, and will even be expanded to reflect the full array of business topics that we now cover in our classes and workshops. Now what about the new framework? Although these steps were covered in our classes and workshops, they were not separately indicated on the framework.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. Here’s a straightforward framework for collaborative decision making that is founded in transparency and trust. Product Decisions. Product decisions are either tactical or strategic. A culture of trust develops.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

The company provides iOS Native App Development, Android Native App Development, Flutter Cross-Platform App Development, Web App Development, Digital Product Design, and Product Design Workshop. itCraft has a specialized mobile team (Android, iOS & Flutter) and web team working according to the Agile Scrum framework.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2020

To overcome this we need a framework that allows us to test and learn. The product growth engine provides a framework for getting up the adoption curve. As a product person, if you follow a framework that focuses on aligning the organization around the user and attaining repeat users then you can have a successful product.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

Arin has even successfully conducted customer workshops with Lego bricks. This alignment of missions through the hills framework is what helps us reduce this tension, because I feel a lot of our challenge in bringing good design and good products has to do with alignment. Prototype it til you make it. How do you start?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

At Amplitude we’re big believers in product teams aligning their vision and strategy to a north star metric. In fact, we believe so strongly that this framework helps transform product organizations that we host workshops about it across the globe. Benefits of this change.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

As a product manager how can you do this? Here are four techniques I’ve used, borrowed from coaching and product strategies to help you. Provide a Framework and Facilitate. It’s all about buy-in – the difference between just an idea and an idea that gets implemented. And to get buy-in you need to win people over.

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

If a Product Manager doesn’t understand who their customers are, they can’t understand their needs and thus can’t possibly build effective products. Our Product Management workshops are designed and taught by professionals who have grappled with the same day-to-day challenges that attendees currently face.

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Dear Strategy

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we talk about the difference between a product strategy and a go-to-market plan, and why it’s important to have both of these key planning tools working together in harmony. First, a product strategy is NOT a product roadmap. It’s an important tool, but it is not a strategy.”

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Bain Public has agreed to collaborate with the new Quebec program to propel scaleups on the world stage by providing workshops and peer to peer coaching to develop the management teams of these companies to think slow, act fast, and build roadmaps, brick by tiny brick.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Push for high-quality KRs Finally, no matter how much we say OKRs are an easy framework, having high-quality key results is hard. So a vital responsibility of the head of product is being that guardian of quality, signaling, and challenging when a KR has room for improvement. This post is based on my new book Product Direction.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. SOAP™ is a methodology that Bain Public created for product planning and roadmap prioritization based on principles of Product Strategy, Lean Startup, User-centered design, Data Science and more.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Knowing this, Modus has created a well-defined practice made up of individuals who are generalists, specialists, and versatilists who understand product. We have developed a product strategy practice to strengthen our product team and enable them to avoid getting overwhelmed with tasks outside of this practice.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In reality, rarely does an executive or strategy team set off on new research or a strategic direction by starting with “what’s our thinking on bugs?”. The organisation and product strategy is usually already determined by the time you’re thinking about bugs. Your prioritisation framework will help you make this call.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

They are drowning, with no time for the underlying research and analysis that drive good product outcomes (first-person problem validation, matching end user value to technical features, pricing/packaging, market economics, testable positioning, win/loss and competitive analysis, internal alignment. See Melissa Perri’s product kata ).

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 2, 2020

We created SOAP™ an actionable 12-week virtual workshop series to help you jump through the hoops of prioritization and roadmap planning by using a clear, measurable, reproducible process for prioritizing features and initiatives. Leadership in Product, Connect & Explore Workshop for Teams. SOAP™ Workshop Series.

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Amplitude

JUNE 11, 2018

Over the last 6 months, we have ran workshops with dozens of large digital businesses to help them refine their product management process. Often when we share this framework with product managers, their first reaction is to say that all three games are important to them. What’s my recurring unit of value exchange?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Last tickets available for my Lean Product Management workshop Dec 3–4 in Barcelona. Learn how to create verified product strategy and to put to use the GIST framework in two activity-packet days. This workshop gets consistent high-satisfaction scores and repeat company attendance.

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UX Studio

MAY 8, 2018

Business and Strategy. Workshop Facilitation. It will also set a good framework for discussion to help people identify their strengths and weaknesses. Competency prioritization: Synthesize the results with product life-cycle. You need different competencies as you go through on the product lifecycle stages.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Unlike featured-based roadmaps, which focus on the delivery and output of capabilities, outcomes-oriented roadmaps prioritize desired outcomes or results — a key element of product strategy. Once optimized, it’s critical to tie the outcome back to the company’s strategy and objectives. Do not skip this step. The root cause?

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Do you have a solid strategy, focus and vision in place? At Bain Public, we’ve done hundreds of product roadmaps. Our staff have answered thousands of product strategy and transformation questions. Documentation of research (qualitative and quantitative) Product discovery (e.g. Book your slot ?. Book your slot ?.

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