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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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The “Why” Behind Your Product Roadmap

bpma ProductHub

There is an emerging set of tools to do this and make the linkage between the roadmap, objectives, and strategy more visible to employees. has a strategy tool that allows users to clearly define the vision; the “why” to your product roadmap. product/features/strategy. business-strategy-link-roadmap.

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Journey to Success: The Seven Pivotal Purposes of Product Roadmaps

The Product Coalition

As a communication tool, use roadmaps to: Convert your strategy into a tangible product, taking an essential yet abstract concept and giving it form. Foster mutual understanding by painting a shared vision of the future and the results achieved. Narrate the product’s story and journey, illustrating how it evolves.

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Sustainable Pace in Product Management

Roman Pichler

I find that many product people are so busy with urgent tactical work, such as refining user stories, working with the development team, or answering a support request, that they neglect important strategic tasks like regularly assessing if the product strategy is still working. Consequently, make enough time for strategic work.

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What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together

Intercom, Inc.

As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team. Where does sales fit in at a company driven by product strategy?

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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.

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What Questions Should you ask Your Product Manager Interviewers?

Mind the Product

What are the improvements the product needs in the next five years? The goal here is to learn about the product vision. What is the most contentious feature the product team currently debates building? For more on the process, here is a sample model our CEO put together in 2014 for a role at delivery company Postmates.