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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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. For agile at scale, I don’t believe this is true.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  So the ratio of wants/needs/demands/ couldas/shouldas to actual development capacity is often 20x-50x. Said another way, this week’s new “must do” items look like a year’s worth of additions to the roadmap.  On the go-to-market (GTM) side, I see a lot of “ roadmap amnesia.” Shiny

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

At times, that requires a lot of diplomacy and emotional agility. 3 Ingredients to Building Out Your Product Vision Unfortunately, all of the roadmap planning in the world and the most thought out mitigation strategies are not going to prevent stakeholder roadmap dismantling, scope changes and risk events from occurring.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Prioritizing others’ work, crafting a roadmap, ‘managing customers’, ‘leading by influence’, and storytelling- all this can get to their heads, and make them think they’re important. Why can’t one developer schedule with another? Scheduling is an exercise in masochism Because the act of scheduling is painstaking.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. If your Scrum Team is moving in the wrong direction because the Product Backlog is not maximizing the value customers derive from the Development Team’s work, no one will care?—?garbage What is your approach to creating product roadmaps?

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I’m also closely involved in the strategic side of things, where we run weekly IPM (Iteration Planning Meeting), stakeholder meetings, retrospectives, and planning product roadmap as a team. Plus/Deltas Plus/Delta is a short reflection exercise to exchange feedback, typically between 2 people.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. Impact maps make roadmap management and prioritization easier. What is impact mapping in agile? Let’s get to it! Book the demo !

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Tyner Blain

JUNE 12, 2014

Agile is not magical. Changing from a waterfall process to an agile process changes how your team works, and helps eliminate inefficiencies. Adopting an agile process does not let you magically have a more successful product. What makes agile powerful is also makes it dangerous. Triage and Urgency.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

These exercises build consensus around strategic imperatives. While some of this rapid recalibration is healthy—and might be heavily influenced by the Agile onion impact on planning —executive teams, board members, and investors take little comfort in a zig-zagging product plan. Annual planning and the product roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2022

Once upon a time, I thought writing a good set of agile user stories with specific Given/When/Then acceptance criteria was the most important part of a product person’s job. Every time I was presented with a new initiative, I rushed to expand it into a set of standard agile stories using the template : As a _, I want so that _.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. Roadmaps are stories. “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company. Managing up.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Product planning is the iterative process that prepares every stage of the product development life cycle, from the initial idea through launch and further development. It should not be confused with project planning, product strategy development , or product discovery. What is NOT product planning.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 17, 2017

Roadmapping isn’t an exercise reserved solely for product teams—or rather, it shouldn’t be. Roadmaps are communication tools and are perfect vehicles for teams of all kinds to share their priorities and goals with the rest of the organization. The product roadmap. Give our product roadmap template a whirl.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It could also include the actual team creating and executing the development to finish the product. I first heard of “The Chicken and the Pig” analogy the very first time I went to an Agile seminar. They could be the U/X team or designers and web developers that are in-charge of deliverables that must be made to complete the product.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2018

With the right effort, you will learn new skills and deepen existing ones, you will develop and grow. Instead, practice self-compassion, reflect on your learning approach, and have faith in your ability to develop and grow. Developing an open mind provides you with an inner agility. But it can also be very challenging.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Then drive development down a waterfall and months later this product which was perfectly aligned with what customers and stakeholders specified would ship. Along came agile development, which embraced change and the chance to learn. Don’t get me wrong, there is extreme value in making plans and roadmaps.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Radical Product Thinking is a clarion call for vision-driven product development over the iterative approach that has, for many, become the orthodox approach to product strategy and management. For Radhika, vision-driven product development embodies the power of long term thinking over short term. The problem with iterative approaches.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 10, 2019

Product teams need to learn how to exclude their biases and leverage quantitative and qualitative data in order to provide the best possible solution and choose the most reasonable direction for their product roadmap. What UX Research Methods to use in different phases of product design and development? UX Research in Agile.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. To make these sessions most valuable we mixed in some blue-sky brainstorming with some themed discussions and group exercises to generate ideas in a certain area.

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Userzoom

JUNE 13, 2019

To show how UserZoom delivers valuable UX insights at any stage of the product development lifecycle. You have to be agile and iterate, especially in a small company , so setting up our research process has been a work in progress. We began with a backlog and we started prioritizing research based on that and our product roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the worst case, you have to go through a rewriting exercise where some parts or even the entire product are being redeveloped. To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective. Technical Debt and Your Product.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

I’ve been told by multiple engineers in the past, that modern agile development + a lack of vision results in them feeling like they are just a worker on an assembly line. Use them to show prototypes of a future state, prospective roadmaps or release plans, competitors tech, pictures of your personas…the list goes on.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 1, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories. But these were nice problems to have, and we had our own development team on hand to make changes quickly.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

User story mapping is a simple method for converting your vision of a product into a roadmap that allows broad team collaboration and enables your entire team to see the bigger picture, how everything connects, and how to plan the minimum viable product. Compatible with agile methods for development. Step 1: Frame the journey.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. Output-focused product roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty, all while limiting product work to a few big bets, which may or may not pan out. We broke into pairs and then each pair developed a feature roadmap along a particular area of focus.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Develop a Work Environment Built on Trust. It also brings a change in how priorities are communicated between different business departments, how the engineering group operates, and it is a huge trust exercise for the leadership, but if used properly, this could unlock superpowers for the company.”. Authority provides a sense of trust.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

You go beyond developing a solution and like to be involved in the definition of the solution itself, giving your perspective and suggesting appropriate changes. It’s not just about developing a feature, you also make sure that is robust enough, so it doesn’t cause a bad impression. You care about quality. Learning the Basics.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

We started by defining the objectives I wanted to achieve over the course of my 6 months in the product mentor program, an important exercise at the beginning of any mentor partnership. 3/ Do a matrix of skills to map team member skills and identify development opportunities. The Scrum ceremonies (Sprint planning, Standups, etc.)

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 22, 2019

In order to do this, you need teams who are familiar with methods like “agile “ , which facilitate collaborative teams and a quickfire approach to problem-solving. However, the key principle behind a Sprint is to save steps in product development and release. But, most of all, you must know how to be efficient in your product design.

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Radical Product

MAY 23, 2018

It was an interactive session where we presented elements of Radical Product thinking and interleaved it with exercises so each person could develop a measurement strategy for their product/ organization, that was grounded in their vision and strategy. we enjoyed the facilitating the session with a very engaged audience.

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