Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 7, 2022

Markets and technologies change. Here’s how we define it in ProductPlan’s eBook, 100+ Product Management Terms You Should Know: Digital transformation refers to a company’s move to digital solutions to improve its operations or products. Setting up digital communications tools to enable remote work.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? Enterprise companies with multiple or complex products tend to have larger product teams made up of specialists, while startups often have to cope with smaller structures where members perform numerous roles. What is a product team structure? Product Team Roles.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The importance of measuring the small outcomes associated with their product goals or visions is the key to churn expected benefits throughout the product life cycle. The below image is a simple framework but it is a growth platform that helps in setting up startups, mid-size or even big enterprises. What is S.M.A.R.T?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

These days I look forward to starting research and discovery with nothing but a hypothesis. Throughout my experience, I’ve used many frameworks and tools to support the research and discovery process. Start with your company and product mission and vision. Understand your customer outside of why they use your product.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

We’re delighted to announce our first three speakers, who will share their unique insights on building products in SaaS, how to be more creative and innovative, and how to change enterprise culture; Tickets are on sale now! The post Innovation, SaaS, and Enterprise: Announcing the First Three Speakers for #mtpcon London!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. View the live stream….

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Competitive analysis of current market offerings absolutely helps your SaaS company. However it isn’t the only thing, and perhaps a quite overrated approach to achieving SaaS growth. You need to collect customer feedback , prioritize roadmaps , and ship features and products that offer a brilliant user experience.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

It’ll describe some points divided as follows: Setting the product vision Getting people onboard (stakeholder management) to make it happen How to talk with other areas to get to this vision Why is setting a Product Vision important? Alice Product Manager”- Without Product Vision, any direction will be taken.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It’s not just about training people to conduct interviews , use opportunity solution trees , or test assumptions —though those are all important activities—it’s also about convincing them of the value of these activities and getting the people they work with on board as well. Sandrine Veillet is the Vice President of Global Product at WebMD.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 29, 2023

Product professionals spend countless hours researching, prioritizing, and planning, all in the name of creating a successful product launch. To add more complexity to this issue, these teams handling the launch processes typically coordinate their efforts in a tool that is entirely separate from the product roadmap.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. View the live stream….

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Mind the Product

APRIL 15, 2019

For the last 18 months our team has been working to rebuild an existing system using entirely new technologies, methodologies, and a new development team. My company, Hindawi, developed a platform in the mid 2000s to allow academics to peer review academic papers online. Starting Point.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. View the live stream….

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

There are many issues with having clients drive the roadmap. It is much better to think ahead and innovate to create products that fit into the bigger vision of the company. Secondly, waiting for clients to drive the roadmap tends to puts companies in a situation where the backlog becomes too large to practically handle.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. View the live stream….

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

NAVIGATING THE NATURAL TENSION AMONG STAKEHOLDERS This is the first in a series on product roadmaps. The first post describes why roadmaps matter and who relies upon them. The roadmap is much more than a directive document that tells teams what to do by when. Battleground The product roadmap. How do they need to staff?

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. View the live stream….

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

She has a knack for strategic thinking and loves SaaS in general, especially product-led growth. She also founded SaaS consulting firm, Sonderhouse , through which she teams up with other experts to provide sound education and coaching for SaaS startups. Register for her session to unlock growth opportunities for your SaaS.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Since product development is often a blank canvas (particularly in startups) the sheer number of possible scenarios and opportunities you might want to explore can be overwhelming: Should we build a mobile app or not? Yes, we’re B2B but are we targeting small businesses or enterprise? What colour should our homepage CTA buttons be?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2021

Built to help brands connect with their customers in more meaningful ways, Typeform is an interactive survey platform with a vision to create a world of more personal business relationships. Focused on realizing that vision by empowering and supporting their customers is Christine Werner, Typeform’s Senior Director of Customer Success.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 25, 2022

Because product vulnerabilities can pose a severe threat to a product’s integrity and even undermine an organization’s health and well-being, it’s vital that security is built into the product roadmap from the get-go (rather than taking a wait-and-see approach to potential threats materializing down the road).

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

A PM may receive help from specialists in the organization such as Researchers, Project Managers, Product Marketing etc. As you climb the ladder, primarily the focus changes from solution and execution to strategy. A Platform PM also concerns himself with stability and safety of the platform. Product Roadmap.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. View the live stream….

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. View the live stream….

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Gainsight

AUGUST 22, 2021

Product-led growth (PLG) strategies are making waves in the SaaS industry—and that’s good news for SaaS product leaders and managers. In SaaS, PLG models are becoming increasingly important. Master your product roadmap. One of the simplest ways to craft a successful product roadmap is to let user data guide your plans.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

Where SaaS companies get prioritization wrong and a new approach to get it right There are many ways to prioritize what makes it onto your SaaS product roadmap and most of them are incredibly time-consuming and only done by your product teams. We also looked at some other research by Mind the Product and by Richard Banfield.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. View the live stream….

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2023

Helps you get the right items on your roadmap and keep the wrong items off it. Enterprise companies (those with over 10,000 employees) were the most likely to say that business goals drive their product strategy. So does that mean that enterprise companies have “better” product strategies than smaller companies? Not necessarily.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. Andrea has 15+ years of experience in Product Management and Marketing, from SMBs to large enterprises and educational organizations such as Product School. How to create a scalable product organization.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

To ensure that the right technologies are applied, you’ll benefit from using a technology strategy. The latter, in turn, drives the product roadmap, which directs the product backlog. Similarly, the technology strategy is directed by the business strategy. But that’s still not enough.

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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. Research article. 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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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The pressure doesn’t let up even after you decide on your product strategy and communicate your vision on your roadmaps. Therefore, executing an ambitious product roadmap with proper planning is not only possible but also an exciting experience. That’s a poor UX experience, and this stuff happens in software constantly.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2017

She works with companies of all sizes on integrating user research, experimentation, and the right analytics into the product development process resulting in better product decisions. At Adobe, she led Product Management for all of the Design, Web, and Interactive tools including Dreamweaver, Flash, Indesign, and Illustrator.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

12 months) that choices are meaningful and actionable Lends itself to OKRs or metrics Not just an airy 5-year vision with all things for all people.    IMHO, sorting backlogs and setting roadmaps based only on multi-column spreadsheets or cost of delay or WSJF is fundamentally flawed.  Short-enough time frame (e.g.

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