Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. What happens when you show a senior leader a roadmap? Product leaders need to create confidence by using the value drivers of their product strategy to frame the roadmap - or in some cases replace it.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

But this is an article about your CEO’s duty to set a vision, to define why your company exists. For some product managers, the thought of talking openly about the void left by a missing vision statement is paralyzing. Without it you can't be vision-driven. You assumed there was a vision. When in fact there wasn’t.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

And do you agree on what a product vision , strategy , roadmap , and backlog are, for example, and how these plans should be captured? Make sure, though, that you hire people not only for their product management and domain knowledge but pay attention to their leadership and people skills.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

And do you agree on what a product vision , strategy , roadmap , and backlog are, for example, and how these plans should be captured? Make sure, though, that you hire people not only for their product management and domain knowledge but pay attention to their leadership and people skills.

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

Their feedback is welcome and will be far more constructive at this point because you’ve completely changed the complexion of the conversation from products to customer value. Then align individual product roadmaps (features sets) to that portfolio strategy accordingly. Structure Your Product Organization for Value.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Product managers play an important role in steering leadership to evolve the product strategy and corresponding tactics. Companies that are neglecting to take large roadmap bets to competitively capture markets, industries, and geographies will find that this recession will make gaps insurmountable. Written by Jessica Scandaliato.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

They need help constructing messages that support a user journey and can respond appropriately when a user engages—or more importantly doesn’t engage—with messages in that journey. Lisa soon realized that her team was turning to her for guidance on the orchestration roadmap. Part 1: The Design Sprint. Tweet This. Tweet This.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum. But I’ve met many teams who clogged up their roadmap with good ideas that cumulatively have little impact. That’s why you have to start with vision and strategy, they give you purpose and direction.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Here are the 3 roles Product Managers must perform to achieve roadmap leadership: The Diplomat It’s not our role to dictate through authority where the product should go. We hold quarterly high-level prioritization meetings to help the company’s leadership define the roadmap priorities. We owe it to the leadership.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

Aside from generating revenue, it’s also important to check if the solution aligns with the business’s direction, vision, and values. These processes with IMPACT can help you articulate what’s meaningful to business: Vision & Mission—Although it’s often handed down from senior management, it still influences your work.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

They owe their success to a unified product vision that is informed by feedback from customers, prospects, and colleagues. Determining what the right roadmap priorities are is a rigorous process, where strategic choices and decisions occur in group decisions where the consensus is challenged.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. Be aware that collaboration requires leadership. As important as it is to make enough time for the team, don’t neglect your other product management duties, such as, engaging with users, working on the product strategy and roadmap, and managing the stakeholders. Learn More.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

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UserVoice

MARCH 21, 2017

Having a plan and a vision, communicating it well and sticking to it. Of course, not everyone is thinking quite that far ahead or has much of an audience for their audacious vision. Their vision paints a picture of what the world can look like when their products have hit the market.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While most of your roadmap initiatives support one tactic or another, each functional group will call out for new initiatives that match other objectives and they’ll want the entire development effort in the upcoming release. Or should they offer transitory leadership support through coaching? So take their advice and execute on it!

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Ronke PM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Customer Advisory Boards When product leaders join any organization, regardless of the size or industry, one of the first things they do is to try to garner how their organization and product teams have been getting customer feedback and validation of the roadmap and vision. Their customers are at the center of all their decisions.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

They use unconventional ways to spread the vision and have the ability to keep cool under pressure with tight deadlines. Defining the ‘why’ behind your roadmap Product management is a discipline responsible for defining the ‘why’ behind your roadmap. Without a vision statement, it’s impossible to commit to long-term roadmaps.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

They can offer constructive criticism tailored to your specific needs, helping you grow and improve in targeted areas. They can help outline a roadmap for your career and, more importantly, hold you accountable, ensuring you stay on track. Broader Perspective: Sometimes, we can get tunnel vision in our careers.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The only constructive byproduct is a learning experience worth communicating to save other products from succumbing to the same mistakes. Vision: The art of Seeing What is Invisible to Others. I hope that the following observations can help your product management environment to evolve into something stronger and better.

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ProductPlan

JULY 13, 2020

That’s because growth often brings culture shifts, new offices in different locations, and new hires with the different product vision. The only constant you see throughout the growth of a company is the need to align strategy and vision throughout all of the groups, as product managers, we need to make it part of our core goal.

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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

When a clear path and vision is necessary for success, it makes sense that taking the proactive approach would yield the best chances. This requires a solid roadmap for their product. As they are more prepared for the future, their vision becomes clearer and stronger. Be a communicator. Even set a specific time do it.

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Bain Public

MAY 20, 2021

Taking constructive criticism from your team is important because they can sometimes see flaws that you can’t! Then, once the roadmap meeting starts, the product manager can quickly move through the consensus and spend most of the time talking about the differences, which is where the good stuff comes up.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A product is no different from a well-constructed story. Part of this management is owning the product roadmap. To be successful, adopt a flexible roadmap. Product roadmaps are important but allowing flexibility puts you in a better position to cater to the needs of your users and keep up with trends. Editorial mindset.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2021

Do you want to represent a big idea concisely to your customers or your leadership? The Concept Map Target Audience: Product Teams and Leadership Intent: Sharing Vision and presenting the concept for acceptance The concept map helps you illustrate and present, well, a concept. Good things come in small boxes.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

Your leadership team, stakeholders, and individuals doing the work all need to trust that your influence will result in better outcomes. Within Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS), PMs are responsible for their individual product areas. Or is there a big gap between product visions that needs a coherent narrative?

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svpg

JULY 15, 2016

In recent articles on keys to product success and the alternative to roadmaps I have highlighted that if you want the benefits of product team empowerment and autonomy, then you need to provide each team with the necessary context in which to make good decisions. Product Vision. Product Strategy.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Experienced CEOs delegate large blocks of responsibility to functional leaders so they can do their CEO-specific work: fundraising and investor management; assembling a strong executive team; setting long-term vision; growing a healthy corporate culture; leaning in as PR spokesperson and deal-closer-in-chief.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2021

They lead their teams, building excitement on a product vision, roadmap, and features. You need to build trust with your manager, their manager, their peers, and with senior leadership that you can do the work and you can do it well. Understanding this distinction is critical to successfully making the transition.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 30, 2023

And yes, it’s your job to break the news when these feature requests don’t earn their spot on the roadmap and aren’t important enough to be prioritized. into the roadmap and eventually the engineering backlog). You must learn to do so in a way that is strategic and constructive without completely shutting down the other person.

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Sequent Learning

AUGUST 26, 2019

Some of those little steering motions are short-term things reactive to a specific deal, reactive to a specific change in technology, or their long-term concepts as we think about our product and our vision of our product, and where we go with a roadmap. That’s why we have our executive leadership team.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

What you want is for stakeholders to build good habits around roadmap completion , but unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen. It’s not considered to be part of the roadmap. You’ll need to analyze each feature request to see if the time has come to push it through the roadmap via a prioritization process with leadership.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

“To get better at [leadership and] management you have to get better at understanding people” The article highlights five lessons from the author’s own experience, and guidance of mentors, which helped him to develop as a leader and manager. Can the product team flex and scale as the business grows?

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2021

Define and articulate a vision. I do this to create the best chances for a successful interaction by acknowledging their feelings and speaking to them constructively. Get change-buy in with a roadmap. To get change buy-in, a project or program roadmap can help illustrate exactly how everything will happen.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Velocity is how fast a company can execute their product roadmap and then in a specific direction i.e. their strategy. It’s liberating.

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

Product Leaders who claim the title without actively seeking formal leadership learning and coaching are doing a disservice to those who serve their people and this great profession. While learning is a necessity for great leadership, the love, passion and drive of Product Leaders to lead people are equally important. Product Managers.

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Bain Public

MARCH 30, 2020

You must learn to do so in a way that is strategic and constructive without completely shutting down the other person. Product managers can provide transparency on vision, strategy, roadmap, backlog, value and cost. Go over the pros and cons of each idea to encourage a positive and constructive conversation.

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