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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Gainsight

MARCH 24, 2022

Before your product starts booming, you need a product roadmap that charts a clear course to growth. That can muddy your vision and make it feel like it’s impossible to craft a clear plan for your team. What is a product roadmap? A product roadmap is a visual guide that lays out high-level plans for your product teams.

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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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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. This includes the following ten capabilities: Formulating an inspiring vision for a product.

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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

MAY 11, 2021

Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. 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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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

The PM therefore needs to lead with vision, influence, empathy, EQ and collaboration. 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.

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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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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? How skilled are they in constructively resolving conflicts and collaborative decision-making ? Do common product discovery and strategy practices exist? What are performance evaluations based on?

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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? How skilled are they in constructively resolving conflicts and collaborative decision-making ? Do common product discovery and strategy practices exist? What are performance evaluations based on?

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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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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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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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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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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

But I’ve met many teams who clogged up their roadmap with good ideas that cumulatively have little impact. The roadmap is full of optimisation initiatives but there’s little discussion about the opportunity cost or longer-term disruption. That’s why you have to start with vision and strategy, they give you purpose and direction.

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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. Through the problem statement we can collaborate to achieve a shared understanding of how the teams will realize the vision. The Job of An Epic.

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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.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. 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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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.

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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. Research article.

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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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Bain Public

JULY 12, 2021

It's a bottom-up process; you attempt to solve a problem with the team, get a signal early and use it to construct the bigger picture. By knowing your training dataset cold, you set the vision and direction of the product. Our approach, product, expert advice and coaching help entangle complex technology, people and roadmap dynamics.

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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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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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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. 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. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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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.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 17, 2020

How do you prioritize what feedback gets incorporated into the product roadmap? From a bigger, strategic roadmap perspective, we get that from our executive business reviews or our insider program. Q: How do you prioritize what feedback gets incorporated into the product roadmap? These get routed directly to the product team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In other words, the development phases such as conception, initiation, analysis, design, construction, testing, implementation, and maintenance are all done one at a time in a downwards sequence. Because the direction of agile projects may change throughout their execution, a big-picture vision must be clear for all stakeholders.

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

You can become so feature-focused that you forget about the overall vision and strategy for your product’s success. We can imagine that the product under construction is like building a house; first, you set the foundation, then build the structure, the walls, and then give the finishing touches. Set a deadline for the release.

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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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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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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. How do you approach constructive criticism? The Product Veteran vs The Coachable Product Leader.

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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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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Identify needs that are not yet met and use this to inform your product roadmap. Get validation of your priorities by asking members how they feel about your roadmap and it’s prioritization. Align your vision and product strategy with the strategic direction of your customers business. New Idea Generation. You’ll learn tons.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Product strategy should help you decide which problems need to be solved to make your product vision a reality. Strategies are more designs than they are decisions, i.e., they are more constructed than they are chosen (they are not to be confused with making plans/roadmaps).

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