Path to Product Strategy Course
Connecting Strategy Threads
into a Seamless Approach
Path to Product Strategy enables you to form, execute, and measure the progress of coherent Product Strategy Choices based on structure and evidence.
Product Strategy Requires Coherent Choices
Effective Product Strategy is about the ongoing and collaborative creation of coherent choices that allow Product Teams to execute with focus and a clear connection to their Vision. It's about arriving at clear trade-off that allows teams to say no–Which isn't the result of using a framework or template, but the connection of evidence-informed choices.
And that's where Path to Product Strategy guides you the starting points of Product Strategy.
Key Outcomes of the Course
Align your Product Strategy with the overarching broader goals and objectives of your company, so you develop a strategy that not only meets the needs of your audience but also supports the overall direction of the organization.
Rather than relying on templates, you will learn how to identify and apply clear strategy patterns across the domains of Strategic Narrative, Strategic Playing Field, and Winning Moves.
Learn how to use OKRs to execute Product Strategy choices effectively. This will allow you to connect strategic choices to your everyday work and to measure the progress of your efforts.
Course Curriculum
1. Product Strategy Foundations:
- What is and isn't Product Strategy
- The importance of Product Strategy Patterns over Strategy Templates
- The Stable Core and Dynamic Peripherals of Product Strategy
- Company Strategy vs. Product Strategy and Feature Strategy
- Useful vs. Useless Product Strategy
2. Creating the Strategic Narrative
- Your Product Vision and Long-term Strategic Goals define the WHY behind choosing your Playing Field and provide Orientation for making Winning Moves
- Defining a user-centered Product Vision instead of listing Company Intentions
- Defining value-oriented long-term North Star Metrics to help guide your Strategy definition
3. Defining the Playing Field
- Your audience is one of the core parts that define your playing field. Instead of solving problems for "everyone," we'll look at tactical ways of thinking and framework to help you clarify your audience focus so it's in line with your vision and goals
- We also cover how to understand the relevant jobs of your core audiences, so you can prioritize research and testing efforts later on.
- Products don't compete against competitors but against alternatives. By understanding who your audience is hiring today for their jobs, you understand the last puzzle piece of your playing field: Who you will be compared against.
4. Identifying and Choose Winning Moves
- You don't just want to participate on the sidelines of a playing field, but be on it to win it. Therefore, we cover distribution, value propositions, and differentiators.
- Channels don't follow the abilities of your product. That's why you have to understand the possible and best-possible channels to reach the users and buyers in your core audience.
- To make your audience choose you, over alternatives, you have to provide value propositions, high-level features, or services that match their proven jobs. We cover tactical structures for shaping this process.
- To sustainably get chosen by your audience, you have to know what differentiators you can rely on and which could easily be copied or attacked. We'll use moat scoring as a way to bring clarity to your positioning.
5. Strategy Synthesis and Strategy Implementation
- Can you say what your Product Strategy is? In this session, we'll make sure you can. By using the evidence-based building blocks of the previous sessions, we cover how to synthesize insights into a concise statement for each of your Strategy choices.
- Even a well-articulated explicit Product Strategy choice won’t automatically lead to results. We'll look at setting leading indicators for your Product Strategy choices and how to use these to define Product Discovery priorities.
Explore the Course Options
SELF-PACED COURSE
€497
excl. VAT
SELF-PACED COURSE + GUIDED IMPLEMENTATION
€997
excl. VAT
What Others Have to Say
"The course provided a great overview over the different aspects of strategy creation and implementation. I found gaps in our own strategy and now got a good idea on how to work on those."
Sven Hoffmann, Head of Product at Haiilo
"The strategy course allowed me to Learn practical tools to define your product strategy through a lightweight framework. Combined with the product discovery course it's allowing our product team to build a new product definition approach that is providing alignment and enabling us to focus on customer outcomes."
Alice Bouveau, Software product Lead at dcbel
Who is this Course for?
- Heads of Product and VPs of Product looking for a new perspective on enabling the goal-definition and decision-making of product teams and departments.
- (Senior) Product Managers who want to provide their product teams clarity and inspiration beyond the next Sprint.
- Product Ops Managers, Agile Coaches, and Scrum Masters want to support product teams beyond Scrum rituals.
- UX and Engineering Product Team members want to engage in continuous strategic discussions beyond Product Delivery.
"Tim's course makes product strategy less nebulous and more tangible. After completing the course, you'll be ready to take your product strategy to the next level."
Christina Strauss, Head of Product at eyelevel
"Strategy is nothing that is built over night but needs thoroughly researched inputs in order to be meaningful and can lead to successful business and product outcomes. The course helps to identify and understand the important pieces that inform strategy and enables participants to tackle strategy formulation in a structured manner."
Dominik Evert, Product Manager at XING
"An engaging way to develop a blueprint for HOW to build your product strategy beyond specific tools and activities. You'll learn how to make crafting and cultivating strategy a regular part of your work as a product leader."
Josh Dormont, Director, Product at Amplify
Explore the Course Options
SELF-PACED COURSE
€497
excl. VAT
SELF-PACED COURSE + GUIDED IMPLEMENTATION
€997
excl. VAT
Meet your Instructor, Tim Herbig
As a Product Management Coach and Consultant, Tim Herbig enables product teams to make more evidence-informed decisions in line with their strategic choices by connecting the dots of Product Strategy, OKRs, and Product Discovery.
For over 10 years, he has worked in various in-house and consulting roles as a Product Manager and Head of Product. I constantly challenged myself to make an evidence-informed way of working in industries like publishing, professional networking, and building Enterprise-level b2b SaaS applications. I know what it takes to balance large-scale product iterations with the scrappiness of a pre-Product-Market-Fit state.
He now helps product teams develop and implement better practices that help them progress in their context instead of chasing artificially created "best practices." I achieve that through hands-on training, coaching offerings, in-depth courses, and intriguing content.
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