Product Strategy in Practice
Running strategy through a full planning cycle — from ambiguous signal to a committed roadmap.
Course overview
Strategy fundamentals cover the reasoning. This cohort course covers the practice: running a strategy process through a real planning cycle, working with ambiguous signal, competing stakeholder demands, and a roadmap that has to survive review.
What you’ll learn
- Run a strategy process from signal to committed roadmap
- Reconcile competing stakeholder priorities without losing focus
- Defend a roadmap under executive scrutiny
- Adjust strategy mid-cycle without appearing indecisive
Curriculum
5 chapters · 16 lessons · 6h 50m
The planning cycle as a strategic exercise.
- Where planning cycles typically go wrong15m
- Turning ambiguous signal into a hypothesis18m
- Live session: cohort kickoff and case assignment40m
Reconciling competing priorities.
- Mapping stakeholder incentives honestly17m
- Negotiating scope without losing the strategy19m
- Live session: stakeholder negotiation simulation50m
Building a roadmap that survives review.
- Structuring a roadmap for executive review18m
- Anticipating the hard questions16m
Adjusting strategy mid-cycle.
- Recognizing when a strategy needs to change17m
- Communicating a mid-cycle change credibly15m
- Live session: peer review of cohort roadmaps50m
Run a complete planning cycle for a case company.
- Project brief: a mid-stage SaaS planning cycle10m
- Presenting your roadmap to a mock executive panel24m
Requirements
- Completion of Product Strategy Fundamentals or equivalent experience
- Availability for weekly live cohort sessions
Who this is for
- Product managers running their own planning cycle
- Product leads reconciling multiple stakeholder demands
- Founders scaling from instinct-led to process-led planning
Related courses
Product Strategy Fundamentals
Deciding what to build and why — the trade-offs behind a strategy that actually guides decisions.
Data Thinking: Reasoning with Evidence
Asking better questions of evidence instead of reaching for the nearest available number.
Applied Data Thinking for Product Teams
Applying evidence-based reasoning to real product decisions, with a live cohort of practitioners.