Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? 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?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

Kris Gale As a wise man once said, no roadmap survives contact with reality. Firefighting while staying on course on the strategy and commitments of the roadmap is difficult. Like a forest never cleaned, filled with leaves, debris, and branches catches fire quickly, managing a roadmap left to rot is challenging.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. So as he leaned across the table and looked me in the eyes, he demanded, “Explain why I need a product roadmap.” Why not, indeed?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2020

Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about why we’re so hostile to including features on product roadmaps. Features have long been the basic unit of measurement that product development teams track.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 22, 2018

By Ellen Gottesdiener – Product Roadmaps Are Necessary for Product Success A product roadmap visually depicts how your product will evolve over time to realize your product vision and achieve continual value for your customers and business. (I

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2016

I use the term major release to refer to a version of your digital product that introduces a noticeable change, for instance, by adding or optimising functionality or enhancing the user experience, and it typically results in a new product version—think of Windows 10 or iOS 9.3, What is a Product Roadmap?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

The value the product should create is not clearly understood : A validated product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are missing. A powerful stakeholder or line manager determines the KPIs —not the person in charge of the product. If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

However, they are intended to guide and protect- to guide and protect the future of the product and the company. I’ve been a product leader for over a decade. I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. Why share now?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 5, 2022

A head of product is someone who manages a group of product people—individuals who look after one or more products and who may be called product manager or product owner. Don’t forget to capture the learning and development measure, for example, on a learning roadmap.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As product managers, the product roadmap is at the core of everything we do. The product roadmap is a key point of reference to keep product strategy, business objectives, and execution aligned. Today we look at a few simple tips for product roadmap presentations. Tell a story.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

If that’s not the case, then it will be difficult to encourage the individuals to agree to more specific goals and to follow a product strategy and a product roadmap that are based on the vision. Instead of referring to the product, state the positive change you want to bring about, such as “healthy eating.”.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Every software team out there uses some sort of planning system or tool to do product roadmaps and sprint plans, and yet many are unhappy with the tools, or frustrated at the lack of getting things done, or getting “pointless” things done, and the list goes on. What do the product roadmapping or planning tools offer us?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 15, 2024

What are Product Roadmaps? A product roadmap is an actionable plan that describes how a product is likely to evolve. [3] Fortunately, in the last ten years, outcome-based, goal-oriented roadmaps have become more popular. Let’s take a quick look at the roadmap’s five elements. 5] So What?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I recently tweeted about timeline roadmaps saying they had to go. I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. When I saw the results I thought it was worth saying on Twitter what I’ve said before: the timeline roadmap simply has to go (said Twitter thread caught fire!).

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

If I could pick one thing to kill because of the problems it causes, roadmaps might very well be at the top of the list. And it’s not that I don’t like roadmaps, or at least the principle of a product roadmaps. Purpose of a Roadmap The first thing is to really understand the purpose (or purposes) of a product roadmap.

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Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2022

In the fast-paced world of technology, building a public roadmap can be a competitive advantage for savvy product managers. In this article, we’re going to look at some great examples of public product roadmaps, draw out key lessons to apply to your own roadmap, and explore some of the best tools available for building one.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

A stakeholder is anyone who has a stake in your product, who is affected by it, or who shows an interest in the offering. While this definition includes users and customers, I use the term in this article to refer to the internal business stakeholders. Involve the Stakeholders in Important Product Decisions.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Note that the term product team is used in different ways by different people—much like other product management expressions. Some fellow authors include the stakeholders, for instance, Steve Haines in his book The Product Manager’s Desk Reference , whereas others don’t, for example, Marty Cagan in his book Inspired.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 13, 2022

So can technology roadmap templates help you say no? Fortunately, you can learn from how product managers interact with their customers and stakeholders to say no in a way that does not make you persona non grata. Those conversations always go better with visual aids, and that’s where a technology roadmap comes in handy.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 19, 2020

At these points in the product’s lifecycle, Raffali encourages product teams to consider “if there has been a path that has been charted before for other innovations” that can be replicated or informative for your own journey. What does a Good Strategy Look Like? Companies don’t start with a product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2023

My main driver for reading the book was an attempt to make sense of what strategy meant as a concept and how it was different from a roadmap or plan. In doing so I hoped to understand how to approach the product strategy for the product I am working on.

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ProductPlan

MAY 11, 2020

Proof Over Opinion: 8 Strategies for Selling a Roadmap to a Skeptic. Here you are up to your eyeballs, creating a killer product strategy and roadmap. Unfortunately, this is a widespread scenario in product management. Addressing Roadmap Skepticism. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

Are you looking for some kind of inspiration for your first Product Roadmap (PR)? And wondering how to create a professional product Roadmap ? Are you planning to implement good practices in your product roadmap to get sustained growth? It helps you to design a successful Product Roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

In a recent product management insights report , as many as 57% of PMs said they don’t spend enough or any time road mapping. They also said they wished they had a clearer product roadmap strategy. In addition, product managers said that direct customer feedback and insights were the best sources of their new ideas.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

‘Yesterday, I was surprised,’ he said through an interpreter, referring to his loss in Game One. Here’s the day-to-day product-shaping work of a PM, and how I believe AI will impact it: 1. 🤖🤖 Building a roadmap : Facilitated The job: Ideate, refine, prioritize, and get buy-in on a 3-to-6-month roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It can easily be backed up with the lean concept of building strategies, measuring impacts, and learning to improve. Refer image 2. This brings sustainability when strategies or decisions need to be pivoted to respond to the market changes. refer to image 4).

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 14, 2022

ProductPlan integrations help your team extend the value of your roadmapping app. The integrations help you automate the flow of data across your most essential product management tools. Your Roadmap Doesn’t Exist in a Vacuum. We built the ProductPlan roadmapping app to simplify product management.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. This strategic roadmap basically keeps high-level business outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

A “blue ocean” refers to an untapped market space or industry that is not yet crowded with competitors. It presents a unique opportunity for companies to create and capture new market demand by offering innovative products or services that address unmet customer needs. But what exactly is a micro-delivery?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Narrate Roadmap Walkthroughs with a Vimeo Recording: How Cool Is That! As a product professional, you know a roadmap is a valuable tool. The roadmap allows you to create strategic alignment with teams across your company. ProductPlan’s roadmap app now has a Vimeo integration. ProductPlan integrates with Vimeo.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 22, 2023

Here’s a look at data-driven product management and how you can use data to guide your product management efforts in a way that solves customer problems and leads to product growth. What do we mean by data-driven product management? This helps us to identify parts of the user experience that we may need to refine.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

My first MVP had little resemblance with the finished product: I used my product strategy and roadmap workshop as the initial minimum viable product. This helped me better understand which strategy and roadmap-related challenges product managers commonly experience and which advice is helpful for them.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But sustainable pace is equally important for you, the person in charge of the product. These include interviewing users, working on the product roadmap, updating the product backlog, engaging with the stakeholders, and working with the development team, to name just a few. Share the Work. Prioritise.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

They delve deep into market research, analyzing customer needs and market trends, translating these insights into product features and enhancements. Product managers act as the bridge between stakeholders, engineers, marketers, and other teams. Product Development and Roadmapping : Collaboration is the key.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Product strategy defines who we are building for, what to build, and how to build it. What is product strategy?

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