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Avoid ‘Product’ Ground Hog Day: Unlocking Success When Crafting an Outcome-Driven Roadmap

The Product Coalition

So either we work together to understand your objectives, call them goals if you’d like, and the outcome you are looking for from the product, or we will end the discussion, and you won’t get a committed set of work on the roadmap.” That’s how budgets were constructed up until this year. So, what is an outcome-oriented roadmap?

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Constructing a Persona Workshop

Mind the Product

His name is Eric. Company name. As the name of this exercise promises: we developed a 20/20 vision of Eric’s needs. Encourage your team to start using the persona’s name in your day-to-day product discussion. Reassess Your Product Roadmap. Compare these needs with the items on your product roadmap.

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

As its name suggests, the grid analyses the stakeholders by taking into account their power and interest; it assumes that people take a low or high interest in your product and have low or high power. Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap.

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Product Breaking Point To Breakthrough: How To Drive Successful Product Reviews

The Product Coalition

I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. When reviewing a roadmap with the product team, there are six points I always look for.

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Succeeding with Product Delivery and Scrum: 10 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

Third, product goals help you connect the product roadmap and the product backlog , assuming that you use a goal-oriented plan like my GO product roadmap. Choose the next outcome on the roadmap as your product goal and copy it into the product backlog. Will any of them impact the product roadmap and require an update?

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10 Visual Models That Let You Simplify The Most Complex Ideas

The Product Coalition

If you have an idea, and your intent is to explain it and its constructs, this is a beautiful way to do it. Pick and chose three minimum, four maximum most important constructs of your idea that you would like your audience to know. The Micro view, as the name represents focuses on communicating the depth.

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Tools of the Trade: Visualizing Discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees

Product Talk

FigJam generates the outcomes I’m looking for, namely teams exposing their critical thinking and collaborating with ease. Drew Forward is the Team Lead, Solution Design at PCL Construction, Ltd. The roadmap feature also allows you to chart solutions and opportunities on a Now Next Later roadmap.