Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 6, 2025

Transitioning to Individual Contributor (IC) Product Manager Kim’s entry into product management came with a unique twist – she stepped down from an executive role to become a senior product manager. As a new product manager, Kim faced the common challenge of understanding her company’s technical landscape.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 11, 2023

Silencing Doubts During Product Strategy As a seasoned product manager, I have experienced this struggle many times. In fact, the most important lesson I learned when preparing for product strategy initiation (or any significant work) is the importance of getting into the right mindset. It was truly eye-opening!

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 29, 2020

A product marketer acquaintance of mine – Mukul – recently asked for some advice on his product positioning. The very first thing I did was ask him about his process – what work had gone into his positioning decisions.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

These are stronger indicators of interest that tell you they really want your product, versus general positive feedback. Wiz hit $100 million ARR within 18 months (the fastest growth in startup history) and, five years in, is generating over $500 million ARR. It also serves over 45% of the Fortune 100.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Here’s a simple example of portfolio positioning and how it makes your product positioning more strategic. Your accounts payable product improves the customer’s cash flow. Your accounts receivable product further enhances cash flow. It sounds strategic. What CFO doesn’t want a stronger balance sheet?

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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. No choices = no product strategy. The series of choices following a framework = the product strategy.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Traditional Decision-Maker Model: A Limited View Early in her career, Francesca interpreted the “CEO of the product” concept literally, believing her primary role was to make decisions. Instead of preparing perfect presentations for the boardroom, successful product managers: 1.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2021

How to differentiate and build a competitive advantage that you can sustain and defend over time Photo by Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels Creating your product strategy is hard work. Focus and Positioning: A different type of prioritization Selecting is not about prioritization frameworks or ROI calculations.

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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 user and business goals help select the right product goals, which I capture on the product roadmap.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The CEO may want to introduce a new feature to impress investors, or a VP might suggest something based on personal preferences, despite little alignment with product goals. Use data to support your position and explain the trade-offs. Suggested Solution : The key is to respectfully push back when necessary.

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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. Book a demo to learn more.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 29, 2024

No Alignment To Customer Strategy The second issue with conventional product marketing courses is their lack of alignment with the overall product strategy, which reflects the customer’s strategic priorities. If your products are difficult to sell, they’re even more difficult to buy.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

An inspiring vision creates a meaningful purpose for everyone involved in making the product a success including the stakeholders and development team members. It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." 2019: "How do I hire a Chief Product Officer?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In both instances, Id recommend using an overall portfolio or bundle strategy in addition to the individual product strategies. If I were in charge of the suite, Id use a portfolio strategy that guides and aligns the strategies of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. [1] Take Microsoft 365 again as an example.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Product positioning is crucial in product management to attract prospects and stand out in your niche. But how can you start crafting an effective positioning strategy that appeals to your target audience? TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps.

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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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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Gain Experience in Managing Different Products.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is the Product Vision? The product vision describes the ultimate purpose of a product, the positive change it will bring about. Say I wanted to create a product that helps people become more aware of what and how much they eat. Who Owns the Product Vision? This is where the product strategy comes in.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Today we are discussing strategy. This is the foundation for product managers as organizational strategy impacts product strategy. Strategy is an organization’s game plan for achieving its long term objectives in light of its industry position, opportunities, and resources.

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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 ? Product strategies help you design and grow your products.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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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.    We can’t build a sensible product strategy in a vacuum. 

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 8, 2024

Essential strategy tools and frameworks for product managers Watch on YouTube TLDR Want to level up your product management game? This guide dives into the world of product strategy, sharing insights from expert Andreas Maihoefer. Maihoefer stresses that understanding strategy is crucial for product managers.

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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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UX Planet

JUNE 24, 2024

In this article, we’ll analyze Snackpass’s product strategy on social integration, examining how this strategy has contributed to its success and differentiates it from competitors. However, its focus on community building and continuous innovation positions it well for future growth.

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UX Planet

JUNE 14, 2024

Over 8,000 people were interested, so I figured this would be a perfect opportunity to explore my product strategy skills. Here’s what I explored: The benefits of bringing back comments: I identified a few key reasons why this could be a positive change for Netflix users (Unique value Preposition). Why or why not?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

These guide and align the strategies of the portfolio members , as Figure 1 illustrates. Figure 1: The Product Portfolio and Product Strategy Using Microsoft Office as an Example In Figure 1, the strategies of the individual products—Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—implement the Office strategy.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Prioritised : Place the goal in the right position on the roadmap considering, for example, its semantic dependencies to the other goals or its cost of delay. This is helpful especially when meeting the goal results in a new product version or major release. Measurable : Describe the goal so that you can determine if it has been met.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 15, 2024

Figure 1: The GO Product Roadmap Figure 1 shows a specific goal-oriented roadmap template I developed, the GO Product Roadmap. The most important one is the goal , and it’s positioned in the middle of the template on the third row. It describes the specific benefit or outcome the product should achieve. It depends.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2020

Melissa begins by describing how there are over 11,000 open Head of Product positions available in the EU today – one of which could be yours. This idea might leave you asking what skills you need to work on to become a product leader, and what companies look for when hiring. Portfolio and product strategy.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Since this entire series of articles is about the ripple effect of product management, there’s a good chance the content for your product positioning (post 7 of 10), sales enablement tools (post 8 of 10) and marketing launch activities was created in a silo in product management long before the product or feature set was ever built (posts 4-6).

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