100 Product Strategies

#46: Tactics for Aligning your Strategy and Roadmap

Apr 18, 2024

Bruce McCarthy, an expert on aligning strategy and roadmap, shares tactics on creating alignment. Topics include challenges of strategy alignment, importance of prioritization, cross-functional cooperation, aligning priorities, decision-making, and soft skills for product leaders.

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Bruce McCarthy

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Quick takeaways

Translate strategic goals into actionable themes for roadmap alignment.

Focus on success over task completion, using measurable outcomes for roadmap adaptation and alignment.

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Connect Strategy to Roadmap

Aligning high-level strategic intent with detailed roadmap items can be challenging. It is crucial to translate strategic goals into actionable themes or problems to be solved. By incorporating themes that represent the core problems to address, product leaders can bridge the gap between overarching strategy and detailed roadmap features.

Introduction

2min

Aligning Strategy and Roadmaps for Success

9min

Navigating Strategic Alignment Through Focus and Prioritization

5min

Strategies for Aligning Priorities and Decision-Making

9min

Strategic Prioritization and Alignment

17min

Aligning Strategy with Roadmaps in Product Management

14min

Strategies for Stakeholder Alignment and Soft Skills for Product Leaders

4min

Alignment is one of the hardest challenges of strategy. Conflictive goals, every department fighting for their priority, opposed world views and interpretations of how the future will unfold…

Luckily, Bruce McCarthy is an expert on the topic, and in this episode, he shares many tactics and tips on how to surface these conversations, use the right artifacts, and create alignment.

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