As product managers and product leaders, one of our key activities is prioritization. We need to make sure the team is working on the right thing at the right moment to succeed. Most of the time, our goal is to decide between two features. We use and adapt existing frameworks, formulas, and tools to do […]
Prioritization: Fast and Slow Read More »
Yesterday Product Direction was FINALLY released, and it became #1 new release in its category! I wanted to create a brief summary for those interested in these topics. 1 — The problem As product leaders, one of our key responsibilities to create successful products is to select the right problems to solve, those that will make a big
Book Summary: Product Direction Read More »
In previous articles, I have written about creating a compelling product strategy and the importance of making your roadmap outcome-oriented. But how do we get from Strategy to Roadmap? While there is a lot of information available on building a roadmap, there is usually little advice on connecting it with a defined strategy. Since the
3 tools to go from Strategy to Strategic Roadmap Read More »
Roadmaps are among the most controversial artifacts in Product Management. We are still far from having a standardized way of creating them, and that led many companies to develop versions that caused more harm than good. While there are countless ways of creating roadmaps, today I just wanted to point out a few problems to
Outcome-oriented: Secrets of Successful Roadmaps Read More »
Section I— What is Product Strategic Thinking? Product teams’ skillset is like a puzzle, composed of many vital skills that complement each other. One of the fundamental pieces, especially as we grow in seniority and climb the career ladder, is thinking strategically. But what exactly does that mean? Wikipedia defines it as “a thinking process
Unveiling Product Strategic Thinking: How to Develop and Evaluate it Read More »
As you climb the career ladder, you realize you need to allocate more time to strategic work and less to your well-known tactical tasks. Regretfully, we learned and perfected our day-to-day chores (and that led to a promotion!), but we had no previous training on strategy. Furthermore, there is no clear path to learn product
10+ Resources to improve your strategic skills Read More »
A 6-part series to strengthen your strategic skills Over the last months, I’ve been writing articles related to creating, measuring, communicating, and executing Product Strategy. Since the articles were not posted in sequential order and spread over time, I felt it might be useful to create this foreword with a proposed sequence and a “one-liner”
On creating a great Product Strategy Read More »
When working on developing and optimizing products, we usually know the high-level metrics that govern business results, like Conversion Rate for e-commerce, or Monthly Recurring Revenue for subscription-based products. We tend to use them as team or initiative objectives, which sounds logical considering that we expect to build things to grow the business. The problem
Finding great Key Results that drive business impact Read More »
Most modern product companies are trying to work with empowered interdisciplinary product teams. One of the prerequisites and most essential transformations to achieve this work model is to be outcome-based instead of output-based. There is a lot of information about it, like Marty Cagan’s articles or articles about the feature factory trap. Yet, today I
Team autonomy: balancing the Top-Down versus Bottom-Up dance Read More »
3 tools to measure and pivot before its too late A few weeks ago, I wrote about how to create a successful product strategy and succeed in a process that most companies fail. However, we still face a challenge: this well-crafted strategy is supposed to provide a direction for execution for approximately 9 to 24 months.
Strategic clairvoyance: how to predict your product strategy’s success Read More »
