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The “Why” Behind Your Product Roadmap

bpma ProductHub

By Don Stoddard – In the very best companies, roadmaps support key objectives with very specific measures impacting the business. Roadmaps are great at showing a direction, but they often don’t tell the story of “why.” Well-run companies are honest about the reality of their current products. product/features/strategy.

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Journey to Success: The Seven Pivotal Purposes of Product Roadmaps

The Product Coalition

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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Sustainable Pace in Product Management

Roman Pichler

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.

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What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together

Intercom, Inc.

To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team. We created our first sales function in 2014 and in the busyness of building out the team, we had little time to reflect on how our experiences on the frontline of sales could add value to our product roadmap. The same goes for your sales team.

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Driven by Purpose: The Secret Behind Successful Products

The Product Coalition

Product managers are responsible for figuring out what’s worth building and what’s not, requiring a yardstick against which to measure opportunities — the purpose. Product managers must articulate what success looks like for a product and rally a team to turn that vision into a reality. Are you in yet? This is dead wrong.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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What Questions Should you ask Your Product Manager Interviewers?

Mind the Product

The day-to-day life of a product manager on those products will be vastly different. Questions About the Product, Roadmap, and Industry. What are the improvements the product needs in the next five years? The goal here is to learn about the product vision. What are the arguments for and against it?