Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Is a Product Portfolio Strategy and Why Does It Matter? A product portfolio strategy is a high-level plan that helps you maximise the value a group of products creates. These guide and align the strategies of the portfolio members , as Figure 1 illustrates.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Marty Cagan, Founder and Partner of Silicon Valley Product Group , and Author of ”Inspired” and “Empowered” delved into a plethora of topics including strategy, vision, ethics, and ways of working. We struggled to fit so many product insights into one episode, so we decided to split it into two parts!

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Well, th at’s the role of a product strategy. My favorite definitions of strategy are the simplest I’ve found. The one I use most is this: a strategy is what we choose to do. In other words, the strategy should define how important each goal is, relative to others. A simple representation for our product strategy.

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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. As Marty Cagan states in Inspired : “When done well , the product vision is one of our most effective recruiting tools, and it serves to motivate the people on your teams to come to work every day.”

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Product Strategy System The product strategy system in Figure 1 consists of four main parts: people, processes, principles, and tools. Having said this, the system in Figure 1 captures the specific product strategy approach Ive created. [1] If so, what are they?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

What Happens When the Head of Product Determines the Product Strategy? As you might have noticed, the list above does not mention determining the product strategy. Here is why: When a head of product determines the product strategy on a regular basis, then this is likely to cause the following two issues.

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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. For example, the marketer must be able to create the right marketing strategy for the product. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 30, 2021

The solution requires companies to institute two parallel career growth paths — one that focuses on people management and another that focuses on leadership as an individual contributor , often titled as staff or principal designers. Strategy and vision. Leadership. They help others deliver better work.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. The first goal is about creating a new strategy, the second one talks about the product life cycle model, the third one covers decision-making, and the last one addresses active listening. The third row contains the most important information.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This month, we’re focusing on all things Product Leadership. Before we start diving into the ins and outs of leadership in Product Management, it’s important to ask and to understand what we mean by Product Leadership. they’re in a Product leadership role. Keep an eye out for events, podcasts, blogs, and more!

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Figure 2 contains a set of cascading goals: vision, user and business goals, product goals, and sprint goals. The vision guides the user and business goals, which are contained in the product strategy. The vision is the objective, and the product strategy is expressed by the key results.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Michelle reveals her journey from content development to VP, detailing the skills and strategies crucial for product management success. Tune in for an inspiring discussion on leadership, innovation, and career growth in product management..

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 6, 2024

JM is also a coach and advisor focused on conscious leadership. Conscious leadership involves becoming more aware of your interior world—your thoughts, emotions, and biases. To improve your vision and strategy skills: Immerse yourself deeply in your domain for an extended period.

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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. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work. Learn More.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I look at four dimensions for robust Product Organizations: Product Organizational Design Product Strategy Product Operations Product Culture Inside each of these are a few capabilities that are then broken down further into sub-capabilities that help me pinpoint where the issues are. I review strategies and roadmaps.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it. Decisions related to a new or significantly changed strategy have a very high impact. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2021

You have a strategy AND a roadmap, they’re two different things. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

With the right strategies, you can hit the ground running, build trust, and leverage your expertise to thrive in your new role. Tailor Your Communication: Adapt your messaging for different audiences, whether its engineering teams or senior leadership. The first 90 days arent just about onboardingtheyre your proving ground.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Setting an awesome strategy without building the enablers to executing on it is just a pipe-dream. And too often I’ve seen poor leaders resort to micro-management, HIPPO, and dictatorship in order to fulfil their strategies. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 6, 2025

The product manager’s journey from Individual Contributor to Chief Product Officer Watch on YouTube TLDR Kimberly Bloomston’s journey from individual contributor to Chief Product Officer at LiveRamp demonstrates the key transitions and skills needed at each level of product management leadership.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

You might not know, for example, which marketing strategy is most appropriate or which sales channels are most effective. The marketer might have to create or update the marketing strategy; the sales rep might have to adapt the sales channels, for instance. Invite the individuals to product strategy review meetings and sprint reviews.

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2022

Read more » The post Build what matters with vision-led product management appeared first on Mind the Product. In this #mtpcon Digital Americas session, CPO at WHOOP and author Ben Foster, explains how to think and operate like a true product leader regardless of your level or title. [.]

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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? Your product vision shouldn’t.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 21, 2023

Without that leadership, products can and will flounder at every turn. Portfolio Vision Portfolio CEO, the first and most important thing you’re going to do, just like the CEO of a company, is establish a “north star” vision for the portfolio. The important thing here is that each product vision supports the portfolio vision.

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What strategies do you use to prioritize your product roadmap? Her passion is derived from igniting vision, commitment, innovation, and trust in leadership, development, and marketing teams. What are some trends you anticipate happening in the next 3-5 years for your particular industry? What tools or methodologies do you use?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 7, 2024

3] If that’s not the case, check that you have a validated product strategy, on which you can base the roadmap. You Lack a Validated Product Strategy A common cause of teams struggling to create a realistic product roadmap is a lack of a validated product strategy. Follow this process until you’ve addressed all major risks.

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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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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

The value the product should create is not clearly understood : A validated product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are missing. To achieve this, refer to the needs and business goals stated in the product strategy and the product goals on the product roadmap. If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. Reinvention requires a product vision : a visual artifact that sets product direction over a longer term time horizon. Product vision is the critical bridge between strategy and execution. An inevitable slide into decline sounds ominous.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

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.    If these strategies don’t hang together, we each hang separately.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Directionality.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

Do common product discovery and strategy practices exist? And do you agree on what a product vision , strategy , roadmap , and backlog are, for example, and how these plans should be captured? Please see my article “ A Strategy Map ” for more information on how to create and work with the map above.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

Do common product discovery and strategy practices exist? And do you agree on what a product vision , strategy , roadmap , and backlog are, for example, and how these plans should be captured? Please see my article “ A Strategy Map ” for more information on how to create and work with the map above.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. What’s the vision? I think teams often struggle to connect the dots between vision, strategy, and execution or opportunity space , right? The vision is flight level one for me. It is hard to do true research for a product vision. We have plenty of ideas. Our backlogs are full.

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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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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Crafting a winning product strategy is crucial for SaaS success, and finding the right product strategy example can provide all the inspiration you need. This article provides concrete examples of different product strategies employed by SaaS companies. There are 11 main product strategy examples in SaaS today.

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