How do we validate that our product strategy is the right one?
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Google Group Product Manager, Android • 1y
No-one can, or should ever be sure that they have a 100% right product strategy. But you can do a lot to de-risk your approach, and your tactics should vary depending on ...
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GitLab Group Product Manager • 1y
This question is very similar to the question about knowing that your strategy is successful, but I’m going to look at them through two different lenses. For this questio...
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Airtable Product Strategy & Operations • 4y
This is a natural question and I would specify the question a bit to say "how do we validate that our product strategy is the right one for us?" Might seem like a small ...
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Barracuda Networks Sr. Director, Product Management • 2y
I emphasize the importance of continuous validation in your product strategy, a key principle championed by Marty Cagan. He teaches us that the essence of product managem...
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Patreon Product Leader • 4y
First, define "right" by establishing clear goals – is it product-market fit? Is it growing an existing product to a certain milestone? These will help you determine the ...
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Openly Director, Product & Design • 2y
I'm going to borrow shamelessly from Jeff Gothelf in his book, Lean UX:"With your prioritized list of assumptions in hand, you’re ready to move to the next step: testing ...
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Square Product Lead, Payments • 1y
Validating your product strategy is essential, particularly before investing in new features. There are two techniques I use to ensure my strategy is most effective:Custo...
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Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
Most situations don't have "one right" product strategy. Some market/product situations have several strong/good strategies. In other situations there may be no winning s...
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Salesforce Senior Director of Product Management • 1y
The core of product strategy is to answer the question "how you will differentiate"Once you have a differentiated offering (based on internal alignment) then you can vali...
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IBM Product Management • 2y
Validation is a great signal that your product strategy is headed in the right direction before you start building against it. My favorite methods for validation include:...
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