How to Build a Successful Product Strategy

David Bauer
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Product strategy is what connects your organization's vision with an actual roadmap. Thus, it's crucial that it answers the right questions and operates on right right level of detail. This Deep Dive will provide insights on what it takes to come up with and implement a successful product strategy.


David Bauer is a journalist and has developed and worked on product strategy for a range of organisations.


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  • Product Strategy is About Saying No and 9 other articles and videos
  • Average reading time: 7 minutes
  • Topics covered: product management, strategy, startups, design, product
  • Includes summaries
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  • From experts like Marty Cagan, Melissa Perri, and more
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Glad to see you made it all the way through this Deep Dive. We hope you found it useful and can put some of the insights to good use in your own daily life.

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Deep Dives are carefully hand-curated series of time-tested articles and videos from around the web.

We’ll guide you through, one link per day, every morning in your inbox.

Deep Dives come in bites that are short enough to fit in your day...

...but add up to a satisfying learning experience.

Let's jump right into this topic with something every good product person knows, yet has a story to tell when they failed at it.

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A brief, yet rich overview of what product strategy is all about, by one of the foremost experts on product strategy.

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Once you've seen these illustrations, you will remember how to tell mission, vision, strategy and roadmap apart.

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Especially valuable in this article: The checklist of attributes your product strategy needs.

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A classic. Originally published more than 15 years ago, so it should be read with that in mind.

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That's it, I hope this Deep Dive was useful to you and you will find ways to apply this knowledge in your own professional context. To go even deeper, I highly recommend Marty Cagan's classic book «Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love» (originally published in 2008, updated in 2017).


If you're looking for a good newsletter to keep up with all things product, I recommend the one by the Silicon Valley Product Group (which Cagan founded), and the one by the Department of Product. And of course, now that you've completed this Deep Dive, Refind's algorithm knows that you're highly interested in product strategy and will serve you relevant new links on it in your daily picks whenever available.

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