While you want to make critical decisions on product strategy, direction, and priorities, you cannot do so in a vacuum. You need to reach out to other departments and get everyone on the same page. Tips:
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Identify the organization objectives that your product can support.
Meet with stakeholders to align your objectives to the ones above.
Mine for conflict to uncover and resolve hidden misalignments.
If you follow these guidelines, you are likely to come out with more durable alignment on a set of objectives that you can use to develop a product strategy, roadmap, backlog, or any other sorts of plans you need.
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