The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

However, they are intended to guide and protect- to guide and protect the future of the product and the company. I’ve been a product leader for over a decade. I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. Why share now?

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

Ensuring everyone aligns with the values and what they mean is integral because our organization's core values are the connective tissue that brings everyone together; they are the foundation for the concerted love of our products, solutions, and services. Aligning early allows us to influence their roadmap and avoid surprises.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Bain Public has agreed to collaborate with the new Quebec program to propel scaleups on the world stage by providing workshops and peer to peer coaching to develop the management teams of these companies to think slow, act fast, and build roadmaps, brick by tiny brick.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2022

It takes time to prioritize something in the roadmap, and it takes time to build products. Impatience also creates unstable product strategies. This is why product managers must stay patient and always constructively challenge the roadmap and make updates. Building a great product takes time.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Your roadmap is one of the most important things you’ll produce as a SaaS company. It provides a glimpse into the future of your product and aligns everyone around the same goals. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And your roadmap should change with them. Who Should See the Roadmap?

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Additionally, increase your ability to constructively deal with disagreements and learn to resolve conflicts so that nobody is left feeling frustrated or hurt. While guiding people can be challenging on its own, you also have to actively contribute to getting the product out of the door. Finally, agree on shared goals or outcomes.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Additionally, increase your ability to constructively deal with disagreements and learn to resolve conflicts so that nobody is left feeling frustrated or hurt. While guiding people can be challenging on its own, you also have to actively contribute to getting the product out of the door. Finally, agree on shared goals or outcomes.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I’ve had some requests from listeners to explore product roadmaps, so I had a discussion with Jim Semick. He is co-founder of ProductPlan , which creates roadmap software for product teams. The best practices for constructing product roadmaps. A feature list isn’t a product roadmap.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

Insights on product strategy and customer research for product managers. Today we are looking at product management work through the eyes of a CEO, exploring several topics together. The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, the first product feedback and research tool for software companies.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

It can be tempting to ignore people issues and focus on product-related tasks like reviewing the product strategy , updating the product roadmap , and refining the product backlog. This allows you to get better at offering constructive feedback in the future. But this is hardly a recipe for success.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Product-led approaches, however, involve identifying and solving the problems iteratively through a build, measure, learn loop, and figuring out which priorities should be the next priority. That is the hardest part of working in a product job -- figuring out what are the most important jobs to be done and how to prioritize them.

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Mixpanel

JULY 22, 2021

Even though that could make sense in terms of skill set, these teams have little to no influence on the product roadmap as product roadmaps in larger organisations are usually managed by IT departments. It’s not called product, it’s called DevOps. But they’re still there.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. This will not only lead to better technical decisions and a better product. It also eases your workload: understanding the bigger picture allows the team to help create user stories and to support you in managing the product backlog. Be honest and open.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development ! Roadmap Development is a process of discovery, creativity and problem-solving. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." - Sun Tzu. These details are indeed important!

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. While salary increase is a complex subject with variables outside of our control, I believe that having a clear product roadmap and strategy is every Product Manager’s responsibility.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Guest Post by: Lee Atkins (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. One method that Product Managers are turning too is the Customer Advisory Board. New Idea Generation.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 3, 2020

A well-constructed epic achieves two objectives. Together with them, we create the epic roadmap to align and allocate the organization’s capacity to the pursuit of our strategy. The Job of An Epic. An epic aligns your teams on intent – why are we making this investment and how will we know we are done?

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ProductPlan

JULY 13, 2020

As organizations grow and expand, keeping stakeholders and employees on the same page to drive alignment with your product strategy can be a big challenge. That’s because growth often brings culture shifts, new offices in different locations, and new hires with the different product vision. Build a Foundation of Trust.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Product strategy, discovery, and delivery: These are the three general dimensions for which product managers are responsible to optimize in a customer-centric organization. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology).

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. Making Changes: Adopting Continuous Discovery Best Practices.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

You would almost think product managers have super powers if they can juggle all of these tasks at once while remaining confident under pressure. There are many more ways we could describe the all-encompassing role of a product manager. Product managers need a mission statement to clarify the product roadmap and strategy.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

We’ve found that it’s a great way to draw those people back to our product and to convert them into paying customers. The path to engaging releases starts with planning your near-term roadmap. A release is a chunk of work that introduces something new to the product that will be of interest for your users.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 23, 2020

We kicked off the project by running multiple UX workshops in order to gain a deeper understanding of our client’s problem and close the knowledge gap regarding its market, customers, and broader product strategy. We collaborated in real-time on Miro to create personas and job stories. Ideating, prototyping and iterating.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

And as a product leader gets more senior, the need to clearly define the product strategy intensifies. In Alpha’s Product Management Insights study of more than 150 digital product managers, 32% percent said that their biggest wish in the coming year was a clearer product roadmap / strategy.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Product teams don’t invest in new product tools without a good reason—we’ve got way too much on our plates to add something else unless we think it will have a meaningful impact. The more you use the tool, the more opportunities you’ll have to refer to it as part of the regular workday rather than as its own separate thing.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

They are drowning, with no time for the underlying research and analysis that drive good product outcomes (first-person problem validation, matching end user value to technical features, pricing/packaging, market economics, testable positioning, win/loss and competitive analysis, internal alignment. See Melissa Perri’s product kata ).

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

If there isn’t a clearly articulated product vision and product strategy that galvanises the team and anchors their roadmaps and backlogs, not only are the team’s efforts wasted but so too are the opportunities. There are a number of useful, tried and tested tools to develop a Product Strategy (e.g.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 3, 2021

As a product leader, I encourage my teams to use whichever product frameworks they find helpful. ProductPlan has written about frameworks to help with product prioritization , frameworks to develop an effective product strategy , and some of our favorites for UX designers, including Google’s HEART framework.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To successfully manage your product and maximise value delivery, you should use additional artefacts including the following five: An inspiring vision that describes the ultimate reason for offering the product; A validated product strategy that captures your approach to realise the vision and make the product successful.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. How would you evaluate such a salesperson?]. [3] 3] “As a former user/subject expert, I know what customers want.”.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

If there isn’t a clearly articulated product vision and product strategy that galvanises the team and anchors their roadmaps and backlogs, not only are the team’s efforts wasted but so too are the opportunities. There are a number of useful, tried and tested tools to develop a Product Strategy (e.g.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

Product Strategy and Lifecycle Management : how to monitor and increase the return on investment after launch, including: Product performance : to monitor leading indicators to ensure the business gets benefits from the customer experience with the product. Step 2: Make room for Product Management.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Tying everything to a strong value proposition and vision is effectively the kind of thing that produces a cohesive product. The reason is that we often fail to be constructive and pedagogic; if we don’t try to change their mindset, we’re sentencing ourselves to be thought of as “those pesky Naysayers.”. features.).

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