“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you,” Steve Jobs once said. Creating such forward momentum is a key benefit that a product vision should offer. Unfortunately, I’ve seen many visions that failed to move people. In this article, I explain how you can create a truly inspirational vision that engages and motivates people.
“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you,” Steve Jobs once said. Creating such a forward momentum is a key benefit that a product vision should offer. Unfortunately, I’ve seen many visions that failed to move people. In this episode, I explain how you can create a truly inspirational vision that engages and motivates people.
One of the biggest mistakes I see product managers make is making decisions in isolation: Deciding on strategy without considering how it impacts product discovery and delivery, or determining UX and features without letting strategy guide those choices. Great products, however, aren’t built by separating strategy from execution. They’re created by connecting them. That’s exactly why I developed my product strategy model—a simple but powerful way to link product vision, strategy, roadmap, and backlog. This article describes the framework in its latest, revised version.
One of the biggest mistakes I see product managers make is making decisions in isolation: Deciding on strategy without considering how it impacts product discovery and delivery, or determining UX and features without letting strategy guide those choices. Great products, however, aren’t built by separating strategy from execution. They’re created by connecting them. That’s exactly why I developed my product strategy model—a simple but powerful way to link product vision, strategy, roadmap, and backlog. This episode describes the framework in its latest, revised version.
This article explains how you can successfully implement the product operating model—based on my experience of helping companies introduce and improve a product-centric way of working over the past 15 years.
In this episode, I explain how you can successfully implement the product operating model—based on my experience of helping companies introduce and improve a product-led way of working over the past 15 years.
Every product has a strategy. But not all product strategies are clearly articulated, let alone communicated and understood. This can lead to confusion and misalignment: Different people have different ideas about what the actual strategy is and disagree on which features should be implemented. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In this article, I describe a clear, five-step process that helps you build an effective strategy for an existing product and create clarity and alignment.
Every product has a strategy. But not all product strategies are clearly articulated, let alone communicated and understood. This can lead to confusion and misalignment: Different people have different ideas about what the actual strategy is and disagree on which features should be implemented. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In this episode, I describe a clear, five-step process that helps you build an effective strategy for an existing product and create clarity and alignment.
Product teams play a key role in solving user problems and achieving product success. But who should lead the team and manage its work? The Head of Product, the product manager, or someone else? In this article, I explain why product teams should be self-managing. I describe the benefits this approach offers and what it takes to succeed at self-management.
Product teams play a key role in solving user problems and achieving product success. But who should lead the team and manage its work? The Head of Product, the product manager, or someone else? In this episode, I explain why product teams should be self-managing. I describe the benefits this approach offers and what it takes to succeed at self-management.