The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

In my view, he or she should have these main skills: manage the release process and roadmap prioritization, be able to suggest technical solutions during discussions with developers, and be knowledgeable in all the tools and terminology of the Agile process. I established my relationship with the team mostly through web conferences.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates. Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. Do they impact your product?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 24, 2019

For starters, we debuted not one but two new conferences – MTP Engage Manchester and #mtpcon Singapore. Our Singapore conference was also the catalyst for another new initiative this year, #mtpontour. Janna Bastow’s post on ditching your product roadmap timeline went viral.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s not just Twitter’s 280 characters that limit us to this black and white thinking, most blog posts and conference talks seem to follow the same trend. Waterfall vs Agile. Roadmaps with dates vs Roadmaps with no dates. So even the age old (at least in internet time) debate on agile vs waterfall often misses the point.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what the best product conferences of 2021 are? February Product Conferences. We are already halfway through the shortest month of the year, but that doesn’t mean you have missed your chance at some quality conferences. What: The largest online product management conference in the world with years of digital experience.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. and at conferences across the US and Europe. David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. and at conferences across the US and Europe.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

She currently leads Product Management at Obo, where she is working on agile product management software that aims to reduce the high failure rates for new products. A marketer or market research department can do it, or you can do it yourself by writing some surveys in a survey tool or interviewing people at a conference.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Last August, back at the Agile 2018 conference, I had a chance to record a podcast with Howard Sublett. We spoke about Making Roadmaps More Agile. I hope you enjoy Making Roadmaps More Agile. The post Making Roadmaps More Agile appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Do regular research, attend trade shows and conferences, and consult journals, magazines, and user forums, for example. You may want to combine reviewing the market development together with the product performance in form of regular strategy and roadmap review meetings (as I discuss in more detail in my book Strategize ).

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Mind the Product

MAY 4, 2018

MTP Engage is the smaller sister of the #mtpcon product conferences in London and San Francisco, and this year we had close to 400 people at the main event (25% more than last year). The night before the conference we put together eight different groups of product people and sent them out to some of our favourite Hamburg restaurants.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. But it is greatly diminished when folks are betting on unrealistic results.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Both he and the owners of the club advocated this plan in a number of press conferences and laid it down as the roadmap for a long-term project. You might want to implement different methodologies such as agile or Kanban or scrum, but the teams at your disposal might not be well-versed in these styles.

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Product Culture

APRIL 14, 2015

I've never felt there was an inherent conflict between using an agile approach to development and having a high-level roadmap. I'll be leading a workshop on roadmapping with an agile bent at the MVP Conference in Arlington, VA May 18-19. Check out the podcast.

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Modus Create

APRIL 13, 2022

Atlassian was back with its annual flagship conference – Team ‘22. This year, Team ’22 featured four primary themes: Agile & DevOps , ITSM , Teamwork Culture, and Open Work Management. Atlassian also shared information about the roadmap to make the Trello admin experience even more seamless across its platforms.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 6, 2020

Between interfacing with multiple teams, coordinating release schedules, prioritizing customer happiness, driving the mobile product roadmap, messaging product announcements internally and externally, and myriad other activities, the list of “to-do’s” for mobile product managers may seem endless, and the job is ever-changing. Conferences.

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Centercode

OCTOBER 29, 2019

We’re excited to announce the Virtual Customer Validation Conference , happening on April 7 – 9, 2020. With so many companies adopting agile methodologies to keep up with faster release cycles , there’s a lot of dialogue around the role customers play in securing quality releases and driving product roadmaps.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In an Agile environment, roadmapping past a few months could become challenging without the right inputs. This annual product conference provided many insights for digital product managers and others as well. How is your product team organized to contribute to future planning? Here is one model that can help [link].

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. Historically, we’ve asked product teams to deliver a fixed roadmap typically defined by leadership. We’ve all been there—sitting in a conference room having an endless debate about the right thing to build. The Agile crowd has been telling us this for years.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Back at Agile 2018, I had a chance to record a podcast with Bob Payne. The recording is Johanna Rothman – Agile 2018. We discussed my experience report with Mark Kilby, the geographically distributed agile teams book with Mark , and my roadmapping session. I’ve known Bob forever.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Business of Software Conference USA 2018 – Some Highlights. The 12th Annual Business of Software Conference USA took place in Boston, MA, last month – October 1-3. Bethany Pagels-Minor – The Many Flavors Of Agile: What The Right One For Your Team. Bruce McCarthy – Roadmaps Relaunched.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

We covered everything you need to know, from technical skills and responsibilities to a step-by-step roadmap for getting started. To thrive as a technical PM, you need to have essential skill such as knowledge of Agile methodologies, familiarity with software engineering principles, leadership and communication.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. There is no single, definitive “agile method.” Spotting fundamental flaws.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

You’re curious, and you like to know the next feature on the roadmap to be developed. I also managed to attend SuiteWorld , Oracle NetSuite’s annual conference for the NetSuite community, as a note-taker for the product management team. You don’t mind talking with other stakeholders. Learning the Basics.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Working with agility requires a continual cycle of collaboration, delivery, reflection, and improvement. For my money, this is what we mean when we talk about “agile at scale”. A leadership team that has all these types of work visible on its roadmap and in its strategy is in a good place. Product Lifecycle. When is it done?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

I am deeply familiar with their common refrains of endless roadmap review meetings, repetitive PowerPoint presentations, and the strain of constant context shifting. The conference drove home the importance of acknowledging this reality early on, urging product leaders to embrace agility to succeed.

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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. But we do believe there is a far more effective way to arrange a roadmap than as a list of features.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

TL;DR Marty Cagan has over 20 years of experience helping most companies adopt the product model, founding the Silicon Valley Product Group, and speaking at major conferences. Marty Cagan’s book, TRANSFORMED , provides strategies and real-world examples for shifting to an agile, innovative product operating model.

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svpg

MAY 2, 2016

Exactly a year ago I was invited to give a keynote at the Craft Conference in Budapest and I discussed the 10 biggest reasons why product teams fail. Shipping features on a roadmap is output, solving business problems are results. You can watch that talk here , or read the narrative article here. KEYS TO SUCCESS.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

He also organizes ProductCon, a conference that takes place in San Francisco, New York, and London and attracts thousands of product professionals every year. Think about Agile. Agile has become so complicated that it isn’t so agile anymore. ProductBoard uses AI to shape product roadmaps. Build, test, improve.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Embrace minimum viable mindset (MVP, MVM) Agile is the name of the game in today’s world. For a product marketer, being agile doesn’t look much different. Try and understand why they believe that this feature is more important than something else on the roadmap? What is the cost of not fixing this?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

After reading a blog or a book or attending a conference or talk on product management, I’m always excited to try out the new processes and frameworks I’ve learned about. Roadmapping—Include components of the meaning and value you’re creating, as well as why it’s the right thing to do.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In the past 20 years, we have seen Digital and Agile Transformation Programs grow and swell to $1.3 Organisations arbitrarily issue new role titles such as Product Owner, Agile coaches are bussed in, and teams are organised in “squads”. It means the introduction of: Agile SDLC Practices. trillion dollars in 2020 alone.

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Mind the Product

JULY 22, 2020

Below you’ll find videos for the following: Roadmapping with C Todd Lombardo Prioritisation for Impact with Gabrielle Bufrem Lean Product Development with Jeff Gothelf Dual-Track Development Demystified with [.].

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Capture their vision If the outgoing product manager has a roadmap and vision, great. Attend conferences. About the author I’m a UX Designer turned Product Manager, with experience in startups, freelance, and agile B2B2C companies. Alas, her next challenge awaits her too and she is eager to embark on discovery of her own.

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Bain Public

JUNE 19, 2019

(Montreal, Canada) - Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public, will be giving a 120 minute workshop at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam, Germany. Agile Testing Days is an annual European conference for and by international professionals involved in the agile world. Time: 10:25-12:25.

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Product Culture

JULY 8, 2020

Here are some slides from a talk I gave at Agile New England on the subject. Events OKRs: I'll be leading a group workshop on Objectives & Key Results at the Mind the Product online conference on July 13-15. APAC Roadmaps: Product people from Australia, New Zealand, Beijing, Singapore? Do you use retrospectives?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2022

This contrasts with the more modern (and way cooler) agile methodology. A product manager can walk over to the development manager’s cubicle, or the two can hop into a conference room. That’s why we believe the collaborative agile framework will prove more successful for most businesses. Here are a few specific examples.

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