Welcome to December's edition of Product-Led Post; we hope you're all enjoying the holidays. 🎄
With a new year, comes a brand-new product roadmap - a topic we'll explore in our workshop in January. We've also got plenty of webinars and live broadcasts to look forward to (I know - we never stop, here at PLA).
But for now, let's tide you over into 2022 with our monthly roundup of juicy, product-led content.
See you in the new year ✌️
- Heather, Founder @ Product-Led Alliance
Building an outcome-based product roadmap
Are you struggling to define your product strategy into a clear roadmap?
You're not alone.
In this workshop, Alexandra Lung, CPO at Signaturit, will share the tools you need to build a user-centric vision that solves actual customer and business problems.
By the end of the 3-hour session you'll know how to:
- Articulate an inspiring vision for your product
- Ensure a user-centered approach to decision making
- Gain alignment within the team and with stakeholders
- Prioritize ruthlessly and manage difficult conversations
...plus loads more.
Save your seatWriting great key results for your OKRs
"After setting great objectives, you need to measure progress towards those objectives with key results (KRs)."
But your goals won't mean anything unless you have a solid plan to reach them.
Chris Butler, Head of Product Ops at Cognizant, takes you through the three evolutionary stages when creating great KRs for objectives, going from initiative to measuring changes to outcome.
Let's set some goalsStop spending time wrangling messy and unstructured customer data into your product. With Flatfile, your customers can seamlessly import their own data resulting in faster time to value.
Read more5 ways product leaders can create a culture of innovation
Hey - just be innovative, okay? Be innovative and drive product success.
Sounds simple - but it really isn’t. How exactly do you drive innovation? How do you embed this into your product team and organization?
Well… it can start from the top. We outline five ways that senior product leaders can help foster a culture of innovation that can be rolled out across every part of the organization.
Innovation 101Product operations: from one to many
Product Ops, party of one - sound familiar?
Whether you're a team of one, or part of a small team, you’ll need to consider how to scale as the product org around you grows and expands.
Joshua McLaughlin, Product Ops Manager at Fullscript, expands on how to build a product ops function and where to start when you want to scale.
Start building your teamNew this month
Exclusive content
- When your 'AI problem' doesn't need an 'AI product'... yet
Templates and frameworks
- Product discovery interview
- Product alignment framework
OnDemand
- Chief Product Officer | London | November 2021
- Product-Led Summit | London | November 2021
Drive better decision-making
They say a picture can paint a thousand words. So why not visualize your data?
In this guide, we delve into how embedded analytics can create visual narratives for your data, generating actionable insights and driving better decision-making.
Explore:
- How to meet user expectations
- How to help users analyze data visualizations
- How data storytelling is the future of analytics
- Why analytics are essential
Best of the rest
Have your say
- Survey | Ones to Watch in 2022
Resources
- Report | State of AI Product Management
Podcasts
- For the Love of Product | David Shim