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Strategies focus resources, energy, and attention on some objectives rather than others. Unless collective ruin is imminent, a change in strategy will make some people worse off. Hence, there will be powerful forces opposed to almost any change in strategy.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
Upon evaluating the main challenges faced by the product management team, I identified a few issues: they had no easy access to data; the strategy and roadmap planning cadences were taking a huge amount of time; and there were no consistent templates across the organization. The product managers were eager to apply their training, but they felt stuck. Product leaders felt stuck, too. They couldn’t reconcile the roadmaps at scale.
Product Operations
Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles
Note that while doing product discovery, certain tools and techniques serve both to facilitate collaboration as well as to provide an artifact as an output of that collaboration. Two very popular examples of that are prototypes and story maps.
Empowered
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones
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