Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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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. Management?—?How

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Involve them in strategy development, gather their input, and address their concerns.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Often, companies approach me asking for help with their product strategy and they’re really focused on the roadmap. While the roadmap and choosing features is the last step of product strategy, it’s not the whole picture. 9:00] Who is responsible for developing product strategy? Download the framework.

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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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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. ChatGPT can create broad multi-year roadmaps that prioritize the most critical feature requests , ideas, or improvements. You may want to learn who your top competitors are, their value proposition , and their weaknesses.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Ronke PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

They use optimism and inspiration to galvanize their teams. At the core of every cross-functional team that creates product magic lies an exceptional product leader who excels in building both people and products. Product leaders who exhibit enthusiasm find it contagious, making collaborating with teams and partners easier.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I recently tweeted about timeline roadmaps saying they had to go. I tried a couple of searches while I was testing, including one of my favourites: search for “product roadmap” under the Images tab (whether in Google or Ecosia), and you’ll get a bunch of timelines. So here’s my FAQ on moving from a timeline roadmap.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Ultimately, your resume should itself signal that you have the skills required to be a successful product manager on any team. As a hiring manager, I want to hire great storytellers, s o the team can work towards a unified vision. . Use this article as a guide to polish your resume and improve your job-hunting prospects.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Joni Hoadley presents the Art of Saying No as a Product Manager Let’s start with a typical situation for product managers: You fire up Slack and see a DM waiting for you from a salesperson like this. Managing stakeholders is such an important skill to develop. “Can you add [feature A] to your backlog?

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2019

A lack of trust from developers and engineers creates endless second-guessing, challenges and sometimes even a refusal to follow through on requests, which becomes a huge timesuck and morale destroyer. If the executive team doesn’t have faith in product management, ideas are likely to be ignored, plans overruled and cachet denied.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen. We need to shift between priorities, sometimes “interfering” with our roadmaps and plans, but the ability to adapt to this constant stream of changes is essential.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. It might be time to make your CEO provide a clear vision.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. The focus then shifts towards outcomes and individual and team authority and ownership. The OKR methodology helps organizations measure success and stay on target with their strategy and vision.

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Tyner Blain

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Your product roadmap is a view of what you are building right now, in the near future, and in the more distant future. Or is your roadmap a view of why you are building whatever you’re building right now, in the near future, and in the more distant future? What the Team Will Be Building. Everyone has a default.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Therefore, IT Services must effectively communicate their plans to get the approval of stakeholders with an IT roadmap. Avoid a bad IT strategy. When it’s handled independently, information silos develop. Map that all out in your roadmap. Roadmap planning shouldn’t just include what’s new or improved.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this post – we will make it clear how Product Owner vs. Product Manager’s roles differ, what skills each need to have to excel in their roles, why you need both in your product team and when is a good time to hire for those roles! Product Manager’s roles is the stage in the product development process where each is involved.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Having said that, I always find it useful to review the points below when I am in an objective state of mind in order to ensure the team is on the right track. Having said that, all teams need to be flexible every once in a while?—?all all team members in the company are in the same boat at the end of the day?—?but

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2019

Some organizations lean toward execution, with a focus on product artifacts like PRDs, user stories, and roadmaps. A company that practices aspirational product management is one that values experimentation and customer research, and continuously integrates those learnings into the product development process to create a valuable product.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Roadmaps are stories. “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company. And a frustrated product manager is a symptom of people and alignment issues in their team.” ” A lot of roadmaps are simply incomprehensible. Go take a look at your roadmap right now.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

And too often I’ve seen poor leaders resort to micro-management, HIPPO, and dictatorship in order to fulfil their strategies. is to either be more strategic or to develop more as a leader. However, this presents two new challenges for Product Leaders: How do you lead a group of leaders? How do I build alignment?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2018

The Times and The Sun, flagship brands of News UK, are on a journey to become more product led in how they develop and maintain their digital assets. For example, the roadmap will likely be a collection of stakeholder requirements and you’ll be often told to just get on and do it. Shared Objectives Allow Laser-focused Roadmaps.

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Product Culture

APRIL 4, 2015

A good product roadmap is one of the most important and influential documents an organization can develop, publish and continuously update. It's key to success, and yet many organizations struggle to produce effective roadmaps. What Is a Product Roadmap? A good roadmap inspires. The Dirty Dozen. No Strategic Goals.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

In a nutshell, yes, you can transition from being a UX designer to product management if you are prepared, have the right mindset and are willing to develop the right skills for the job. They can lead a team rather than just being part of a team. Start Learning Can You Transition from UX to Product Management?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Highly Effective Product Managers Prioritize their Roadmaps According to Value (Not Features). They develop their roadmap as a list of features, rather than using the roadmap to communicate the value they expect the product to deliver. A customer-centric attitude is a habit every PM is well advised to develop.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We have developed a new leadership model – the Product Adaptive Leadership Model (PALM) that offers a path for Product Leaders to examine their current practices, apply new ways of solving problems, and improve their Product Leadership performance. This often goes unnoticed as the pace of development and deadlines increases.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

It forced me to question a belief, as a product leader, I treated as an absolute — that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” While I thought it was an absolute, for a micro-second, I questioned it, and then the floodgates of doubt opened — maybe not such a bad thing in this case.

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ProductPlan

MAY 26, 2022

When we inundate stakeholders with information, a few bad things can and often do happen: They don’t see the forest for the trees. When presented with an extensive buffet of contextual elements, stakeholders can miss the big picture or give certain areas disproportionate attention and weight. Anything extraneous only works against you.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Soft skills” aren’t always part of their repertoire, not to mention loads of “ developer-speak.”. Be sure they’re aligned with the vision and goals for the product.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. Instead, I flew to LA once a month and stayed for a week of development team meetings. Product management in Development.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one. Soon the whole team was standing behind the designer’s screen shouting new ideas and tips about the layout, the colors, the icons, the fonts and everything else. What to expect from a design team?

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