Product Culture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Themes are an organizational construct for defining what’s important to your customers. Roadmaps should be about expressing these needs. Most items on your roadmap will derive from a job the customer needs to accomplish or a problem the customer must solve. What are your biggest roadmap themes? Interested?

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So a product roadmap serves as a tool for alignment: it’s a strategy-first, visual document that communicates what type of problem a product solves, how, and for whom. Yet because product roadmaps are living, breathing documents that can and should evolve, it can be frustrating to construct them. A roadmap to revenue growth.

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Gainsight

MARCH 24, 2022

Before your product starts booming, you need a product roadmap that charts a clear course to growth. In this article, we lay out the questions you can ask yourself to help you create a successful product roadmap that’s anchored in analytics. What is a product roadmap? Will our product roadmap encourage product-led growth?

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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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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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Communication: Be able to effectively practise active listening and offer honest but constructive feedback to help people meet agreed goals. For example, to set product-related goals you might choose to use my goal-setting framework and my strategy and roadmap templates.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap. The most amazing product strategy and the best product roadmap are worthless if the stakeholders don’t support them. Ask the Scrum Master to help you build a stakeholder community.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

Rule 2: Communicate Product Strategy and Roadmap Every organization and product leader handles the communication of product strategy and roadmap differently. We walked them through our vision, product roadmap, customer value, business value, and KPIs. Aligning early allows us to influence their roadmap and avoid surprises.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Developing a product roadmap and setting realistic product goals/outcomes.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 3, 2019

Product roadmaps are one of the best-known tools and also the most misused by product managers. We have talked twice before with Bruce McCarthy, co-author of the book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty , to learn how to make roadmaps work for us instead of against us.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2023

The result was a very clear definition of success for the product and also a roadmap to measure progress. Minnesota Innovation” Goal and Questions And here is a GQM version of “Improve company website”*: “Improve Company Website” Goal and Questions Each of these questions should be constructed to accommodate a numeric or Yes/No value.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Clear roadmaps will ensure you reach your goals. But there’s a reality about life, yeah following your roadmap chronologically will help you reach your goals safely, but there’ll be distractions and roadmaps are not linear. You should update your roadmap with new technologies, or with a piece of new information you’ve learned.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 20, 2018

To understand the problem with technical debt roadmaps, we’ll start with a quote from renowned philosopher, Homer Simpson. When you create a dedicated roadmap for technical debt, you are removing the the problem from your immediate sight. In this article, we’ll discuss why technical debt roadmaps don’t work.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

While we run as a fully autonomous software team in the construct of a balanced team , we are also responsible for planning and directing what happens in each of our disciplines. Be kind and constructive when giving feedback. Your Product Manager will be able to reference your calendar and plan, estimate and adjust their priorities.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

So, your boss’s boss walks into your office and changes your roadmap…. The only real solution was to rebuild everything from scratch; requiring phasing out the old platform and creating a new one and managing multiple products and roadmaps. No, this is not a bad joke. As a product manager you prep, plan and execute.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. In reality, they end up with outcomes that fall short of expectations.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

By not making it a priority to ask for, listen to, and implement customer feedback in a constructive manner, companies are missing a huge opportunity to closely align their business with their customers’ wants, needs, and expectations —while still keeping their product roadmap aligned with business goals. . I don’t have budget (29%).

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

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. Some product managers pursue these roadmapping opportunities even in the face of adversity. Talk constructively about where to go next.

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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. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And then there’s perhaps the biggest question of all: “How do we decide what makes it on to our roadmap?” And your roadmap should change with them. They change a lot.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2017

But bear in mind that negative thoughts and emotions cloud your perception; they will make it difficult to have a constructive conversation with Jane. Think of moments when you saw Jane help others, make a constructive contribution, or commit other acts of kindness. Are you disappointed, upset, or angry? If so, then that’s ok.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 26, 2018

Shifting focus from the how to the why by properly using a product roadmap. The same applies to a frequent tool product managers use — the product roadmap. The traditional use of a roadmap nearly guarantees that product managers will get damaged in some way, like mishandling a belt sander. How to organize a roadmap.

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Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

Roadmap Planning process Unlike Consumer products, you have two different types of audience to satisfy in Enterprise world, namely Buyer and User Persona. It’s very important to have a very clear definition of these persona constructs to the most precise form. We should be dynamic to readjust roadmap to meet its goals.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

This includes showing the dev team how agile processes can be applied and suggesting specific techniques, facilitating meetings, and teaching people how to constructively deal with conflicts. In other words, the Scrum Master is responsible for helping the team do a good job.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Autodesk, a pioneer since its establishment in 1982, has been at the forefront of creating tools that power the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and entertainment industries. By closing the feedback loop, they validated product roadmaps aligned to user priorities. The Results?

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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. This is why product managers must stay patient and always constructively challenge the roadmap and make updates. Be patient It takes time to collect feedback. Not understanding this and being impatient only leads to mistakes.

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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. The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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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. The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

I’ve written about how to critique design constructively here ?—?PMs I try to be radically transparent around our prioritization framework (how we’re making decisions about what to work), our roadmap and trade-offs required. there are stereotypes galore around this “He’s out to win a design award”?—?I

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 7, 2024

Feedback should be constructive, clear, and focused on behaviors and performance, not personal attributes. Document improvement: Approximately 30% of users utilize ChatPRD to enhance existing specs, PRDs, strategy docs, or roadmaps, indicating its effectiveness in refining and iterating on initial project documentation.

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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. Summary of questions discussed: What is the purpose of a roadmap?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Gathering Context as Critical Input So, as you construct your story, consider the context around your users when they use the product. This context is also important to share as part of the roadmap. Yet piecing together discrete increments is exactly what we ask teams to do with roadmaps.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 6, 2018

To keep the discussion aligned with the product, which might not even exist at that point, I start from the features on the roadmap and regroup them by the area of the problem they address, rather than chronologically. Instead, the component parts of the “why” are the touchstones that help construct a narrative framework.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

This includes outlining their responsibilities, defining what success looks like, and providing them with a roadmap for achieving their goals. Provide to your junior product managers constructive feedback regularly, in regard to their performance, highlighting areas where they excel and others where they need to improve.

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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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