The Product Thoughts Podcast - Proven Product Management Strategies & Tactics

In this episode, I will talk about the different roles Product Goals and Product Strategy have and what these mean for using both of these elements of product management.

In this episode, I will talk about the difference between leading and lagging indicators, as well as their use cases.

In this episode, I will talk about starting with an end solution in mind and trying to reverse-engineer a problem from that.

In this episode, I will talk about the most difficult phase of building products and what product teams need to do to push through it.

In this episode, I will talk about the most difficult phase of building products and what product teams need to do to push through it.

Prioritizing actions to put a Product Strategy into practice is similar to structuring research efforts during Product Discovery: Being aware of the lead time it takes to reduce uncertainty around specific aspects. Now, what do I mean by lead time in this context? I’m talking about the amount of time it takes until you realize that you need to understand “something” in more detail until you have a more precise grasp of it.

When product teams start to dig deeper into the problem space through quantitative and qualitative research, they quickly encounter differences among the user segments they talk to. During Product Discovery, the main question then quickly becomes: Whose problems are we trying to focus on?

In this episode, I will talk about how you can structure your Product Discovery meetings in a time-efficient, yet still an outcome-focused way.

In this episode, I share how you can ensure strategic clarity for which problem spaces to focus on next using Impact Mapping, even if your product hasn’t launched yet.

You know that feeling once you get to the bottom of a user’s problem? It feels amazing...until you realize that this itself doesn’t help you measure the success of your product. But in this episode, I will share exactly how you can define tangible product goals, based on actual user problems.