Published inHomeday·PinnedMember-only01 | Mastering business and product strategy: Starting my journey to hopefully becoming a good strategist1️⃣ ✨ 🚀 Here we go, my first article on strategy! 🥁 It should be the start of a little “strategy series” in which I will share my insights from reviewing available frameworks and compiling my own perspective on strategy. Hopefully, this will clear the strategy mess for me –…Strategy7 min readStrategy7 min read
Published inHomeday·PinnedMember-onlyCreating an actionable Product Roadmap: My approach to balance certainty and flexibility and to establish the roadmap as the center for collaboration and communicationHere we go! 🚀 My first post on medium. It’s quite a bit but hopefully worth it, especially if you’re a PM. Looking forward to your honest feedback. Why I developed my own roadmap format There are tons of roadmap formats which vary from feature lists over release plans in the form of timeline-focused GANTT charts to…Product Management8 min readProduct Management8 min read
Aug 13Member-only03 | Mastering strategy: How to uncover the logic of success and complete your diagnosis3️⃣✨ 🚀 Welcome to the third article of my strategy series! 🏆 🕵🏼 How do we find the holy grail of business success? Do you just have to wait for that Heureka moment to come or can you also get there systematically? I am firmly convinced that it is the…Strategy7 min readStrategy7 min read
Jul 24Member-only02 | Mastering strategy: Laying the foundations for a coherent diagnosis2️⃣ ✨ 🚀 This is the 2nd article of my series on mastering strategy! In my previous article, I’ve laid out the core elements for a successful strategy from my perspective. Now, we dive deeper into the first – and most important – element: the art of creating a coherent…Strategy7 min readStrategy7 min read
Jul 1Member-onlyHow Problem/Opportunity templates facilitate efficient and successful decisions on your Roadmap👋🏼 😊 Hey, honored to have your attention! I try to make best use of your valuable time. Here’s what you’ll find in this article. Framing the problem: How wrongly prepared decisions and imbalanced roadmap contributions slow down value creation What we want to achieve by applying the problem/opportunity template…Roadmaps10 min readRoadmaps10 min read
Published inHomeday·Aug 7, 2022Member-onlyScaling personal care — How to digitalize Customer Support with existing 3rd-party solutionsWe all know how bad customer service feels like: Hard to find contact options, endless minutes of waiting on hotlines, talking to people who can’t help you, unsatisfactory answers that come way too late. 😡 😤 At Homeday, I have the chance to bring this to an end and develop…Natural Language Process9 min readNatural Language Process9 min read
Published inHomeday·Apr 2, 2022Member-only3 levels of stakeholder MGMT — and when to apply themAs a product manager, your daily business is to make or facilitate decisions and guide your stakeholders accordingly. As time is short, you need to balance pace and quality of the decision making as well as the level of buy-in from stakeholders. Within this article, I describe three levels of…Stakeholder6 min readStakeholder6 min read
Published inHomeday·Dec 28, 2021Why (product) managers should leverage video communicationBoosted by the Covid-19 pandemic 🦠🤧, I learned to embrace the benefits of asynchronous video communication for my daily work as a product manager at Homeday. 🎥 ⏯ 🙂 Not a day goes by that I don’t record a “Loom”. And I think it will soon become a standard for…Product Management6 min readProduct Management6 min read
Published inHomeday·Dec 12, 2021Member-onlyTurn your Product Roadmap into a Company Roadmap: How standalone “product roadmaps” slow down company progressIn a previous article, I’ve presented my own format of an actionable product roadmap – and for the sake of collaboration and communication, I continue to believe it. However, I observed one dilemma that product squads couldn’t overcome when collaborating with their business stakeholders: Being regarded as the bottleneck for…Product Roadmap6 min readProduct Roadmap6 min read
Published inHomeday·May 31, 2021Member-onlyHow to really nail your customers’ core needs: Why PMs and other business leaders should regularly check their Value Proposition Canvas (VPC)Here we go again! 🚀 My second post on medium. It’s about one of the most important strategic assets from my perspective. Can’t wait to hear your honest feedback, especially if you already have some experience with the VPC. How I realized that my colleagues and I were not supporting our customers as well as we should be 😳 Let’s kick off this article with a provoking statement: The…Product Management8 min readProduct Management8 min read
