Mind the Product

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I’ve made a lot of roadmaps in my time. In fact, in the first three years I was at WorldRemit, I counted that I represented our company roadmap in 10 different ways. One of many, many roadmaps. One of many, many roadmaps. Yet most roadmaps have a big problem in common. The Wrong Conversation.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In our context, it helps you predict the market reaction to your product and go-to-market strategy. Reassess Your Product Roadmap. Compare these needs with the items on your product roadmap. Review Your Marketing Strategy. They are proved to be very effective in understanding and predicting behaviors in job interviews.

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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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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. This starts by inviting them to a kick-of workshop for a brand-new product or a major product update and asking them to contribute to the product discovery and strategy validation work.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 7, 2020

Roadmapping is a crucial part of every product manager’s role, but it’s safe to say a lot of PMs don’t particularly enjoy it. Luckily, there are some excellent product roadmap tools out there to help make it more bearable. In this article, we’re going to look at the most popular product roadmap tools. What will the roadmap show?

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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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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. Let’s break them down.

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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 Innovation Educators

APRIL 29, 2024

Innovation Culture Failure is understood Managers establish objectives Innovation is considered in recruitment External communication is used Innovation and risk-taking are valued Constructive conflict is encouraged Internal communication is effective [12:32] 2. Product innovation involves creating value, which is judged by the customer. [3:23]

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum.

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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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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. What has always worked for me is collaboration and storytelling.

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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. Creating and validating a product strategy including market and user research.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2022

Let’s rewind a moment to set the stage for an effective customer feedback strategy, before looking at some specific, practical tactics for actioning customer insights into your long-term product roadmap. Here are 3 reasons to give this strategy a shot, starting today. No ifs, no buts.

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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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Ronke PM

MAY 8, 2024

These leaders are passionate and curious, which inspires their teams and motivates the entire organization to support their product vision and strategy. Culture-driven product leaders recognize that for their organization's product strategy and vision to be transformative, they must communicate it through storytelling.

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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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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 Strategy. Product Vision.

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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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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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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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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Drew Forward is the Team Lead, Solution Design at PCL Construction, Ltd. where he oversees the development of internally developed applications to help execute construction projects and occasionally acts as an additional senior product manager. Let’s meet them first before we dive into their experience with Miro.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 6, 2020

Remote product management strategies are no longer a “niche” topic. Remote Product Management Strategies to Implement for the Long-Term. Regular roadmap reviews. If there’s one single thing to keep a remote team aligned, it’s a well-made and maintained product roadmap.

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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. It’s up to the product leader and product team to unite everyone around the product strategy. 5 Strategies for Driving Alignment. 5 Strategies for Driving Alignment.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 8, 2020

A carefully constructed roadmap can be a powerful tool that can align stakeholders and motivate coworkers. But a neglected roadmap can prove problematic and breed internal dissent. Making sure a roadmap falls into the first category doesn’t happen by accident. Six Conversations to Have Before Making a Roadmap.

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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. Be patient It takes time to collect feedback.

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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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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work. 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.

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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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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

Plus, it’s your ticket to a portfolio strategy for the next 12-24 months that’s guaranteed to deliver high value to the market. 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.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

Part 2 of Becoming a Product Leader Product Leaders drive impact for the business by taking on complex initiatives and defining strategy across multiple teams. Within Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS), PMs are responsible for their individual product areas. Organization-Wide Strategy Product strategy drives business outcomes.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

Do common product discovery and strategy practices exist? And do you agree on what a product vision , strategy , roadmap , and backlog are, for example, and how these plans should be captured? How skilled are they in constructively resolving conflicts and collaborative decision-making ?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

Do common product discovery and strategy practices exist? And do you agree on what a product vision , strategy , roadmap , and backlog are, for example, and how these plans should be captured? How skilled are they in constructively resolving conflicts and collaborative decision-making ?

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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. To make things worse, it’s not clear who has the final say on product strategy changes. Use a Dedicated Facilitator.

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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

MARCH 21, 2019

Most companies fail in execution, not strategy. Defining strategy the right way can close the gap. Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast.” In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to execute.

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