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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

Basic definitions Strategy has benefited from several excellent foundational frameworks over the years, from Michael Porter’s work to Good Strategy Bad Strategy , Playing to Win , and The Art of War , to name a few. Next, cluster related problems into broader themes, and give each theme a relatively short and pithy name.

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10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based.

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Delete to Accelerate: Transforming Your Product with a Reverse Roadmap

The Product Coalition

They have gotten significantly simpler iteration over iteration despite being rocket engines for space travel. We were now reviewing the features to be sunset, and the teams to work on them. With a dedicated reverse roadmap, you can easily show the experience improvements due to the deletion. But it had to be done.

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How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your Product

Roman Pichler

This might have involved observing target users, interviewing them, carrying out competitor research, and using throw-away prototypes, to name just a few strategy validation techniques. A small number of indicators are helpful for safely getting to your destination, including how fast you are travelling and how much battery/fuel is left.

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Technical Women Are Software Managers

Johanna Rothman

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-1980s, women comprised about 1/3 of the technical people I worked with. The idea of a code review or a design review?

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Christina Wodtke: Working with Mindfulness and Compassion

Mind the Product

But she originally went to art school with the intention of becoming a painter, and only became involved in tech when someone showed her what was then called computer-altered photography. “It Over the course of her long tech career she has worked at Yahoo! She adds: “You have to transform names into people.

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Product in Practice: Adopting the Discovery Habits is An Iterative Process

Product Talk

Next, their tech lead created some lo-fi mockups in FigJam. We wanted to increase engagement of web content via guide consumption, opening up our travel deals, possibly hitting that booking icon. For this iteration, they began talking to customers to learn more about how people travel. I have some rigidity.”