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Strategy for Product Managers

Two days that make your roadmap read as strategy, not a backlog — and give you the evidence to defend it.

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Duration
2 days8:30–4:30 daily
Format
In personor live online
Level
Foundationsno prerequisites
Investment
$1,800per seat
Credential
Certificateof completion

What this is

Product managers are the closest role in the company to strategy work. Almost none are trained for it.

You already own the trade-offs. You already say no. What you often can’t do — in the room, under pressure, in front of an executive who has a different idea — is show the reasoning as a chain of cause and effect that connects a sprint to a company objective.

This is the product edition of Intent, Value & Impact: the same two-day method, rebuilt end to end around the product role. You apply Balanced Scorecard methodology to your product specifically, build a product strategy map, define metrics that go past feature velocity, and leave with a roadmap you can defend on evidence rather than conviction.

No prior Balanced Scorecard experience required. Bring a real product — you’ll be working on it the whole time.

Who it’s for

For product people who want the roadmap taken seriously.

This course is for you if…

  • You’re a product manager, product owner or product lead
  • You want to move from feature delivery to strategic product ownership
  • You’re an IC PM, senior/principal PM, group PM or head of product
  • Your roadmap gets read as a wish list rather than a strategy
  • You’re tired of defending priorities with opinion instead of logic

Look elsewhere if…

  • You’re not in a product role — take the general Intent, Value & Impact edition
  • You want a discovery or user-research course; this is about strategic connection
  • You want organizational strategy — that’s the VAST five-day

What you leave with

Seven shifts, applied to your actual product.

Everything here gets built on a real product over the two days.

The agenda

Eight sessions across two days.

Day 1 goes from your value proposition to a balanced set of product objectives. Day 2 turns those into a map, metrics, a sequenced roadmap and a plan you sign.

DAY 1 You Must Add Value → Defining ImpactSessions 1–4 · from feature factory to strategic product partner
Morning — sessions 1 & 2
  • You Must Add Value — self-assessment: what share of your week is strategic impact versus backlog management?
  • The value hierarchy: Backlog Execution → Product Expertise → Roadmap Enablement → Strategic Partnership
  • Personal value proposition exercise: where does your product actually create value, and who feels what you ship?
  • Setting Goals & Intent — the four perspectives applied to your product; product strategy as a hypothesis, not a fixed roadmap
  • Strategic context analysis and the strategic intent workshop for your product
Afternoon — sessions 3 & 4
  • You Are Here — product maturity assessment across key capability areas
  • Stakeholder value assessment: how is your product’s value seen by execs, customers and engineering — and where do those diverge?
  • SWOT with a strategic lens, and a current-state synthesis
  • Themes & Objectives — product theme generation, evaluation and prioritization
  • Objectives across Financial (revenue, margin, retention), Customer, Process (discovery and development) and Capability & Capacity
You leave the day with: an articulated product value proposition, a strategic intent statement for the product, a current-state assessment, and 3–5 product themes carrying 10–14 balanced objectives.
DAY 2 Telling the Value Story → Make It HappenSessions 5–8 · product strategy map, metrics past velocity, roadmap, 90-day plan
Morning — sessions 5 & 6
  • Telling the Value Story — product strategy map construction and cause-and-effect linkage
  • Roadmap narrative development, and stakeholder-specific messaging that keeps the core story intact
  • Value dialogue simulation: executive role-play and handling roadmap pushback
  • Measure What Matters — output versus outcome, leading versus lagging, vanity metrics versus value metrics
  • KPI development by objective; OKR integration and cascading; measurement system design
Afternoon — sessions 7 & 8
  • Prioritize & Deliver — initiative identification and initiative-to-objective mapping
  • Prioritization: impact versus effort (RICE/ICE-style) and strategic alignment scoring
  • Roadmap sequencing, dependency mapping, MVP and incremental value planning
  • Make It Happen — impediment assessment and root cause analysis
  • 30/60/90-day roadmap commitment, accountability framework, and public commitment
You leave the day with: a visual product strategy map, a balanced metric set beyond velocity, a prioritized and sequenced initiative roadmap, and a signed 90-day plan.

How it runs

Delivered in the room, or live online.

In person

A facilitated working session — breakout space, wall work, and cross-functional groups. This is the format the material was designed for.

Live online

Same facilitator, same exercises, run in a virtual workspace. Fully live — not a recorded course you watch alone.

Private cohort

Run for your organization, on your strategy, with your own examples. Run it for a whole product org and every PM’s map connects to the same objectives.

Upcoming dates

Scheduled cohorts

Public cohorts run in person and live online. Private cohorts are scheduled to suit your organization — talk to us.

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