Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. Or how will you be able to build a product roadmap that gets you executive buy-in? Questioning them.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

There’s a startup product metaphor that bugs me. Along came agile development, which embraced change and the chance to learn. High performing agile teams can move a story through design, development and implementation with awesome velocity, tool and process discipline. Leading agile companies set the vision, goals and measures.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Download ’71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Hiring Agile Imposters’ 71 Product Owner Interview Questions Scrum is not a methodology but a framework. A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In early-stage startups, product managers are often responsible for executing all of their own customer research, while in larger organizations product managers often work closely with designers, UX researchers, or product marketers to accomplish this. Design: Product Roadmap.

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

We’re “agile” (mostly). I looked into a variety of frameworks: Jobs to be Done , Lean Startup , Design Sprint , and Opportunity Solution Trees among others. Throughout the discussions we utilized “silent brainstorming” and “note and vote” exercises to avoid the pitfalls of the first meeting. I read all the blogs. End result?

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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. We prioritised our roadmap based on whichever lever we thought was the most important to pull at a given time.

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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. The organization as a result would feel more like a nimble startup. “I

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2018

Since then, I studied a lot about UX, product management, design thinking, agile, customer experience and a wide range of subjects that are related to delivering a great experience to the user. In the image below you can see a simple exercise that will help you building this! That is what I´m calling “magical framework”.

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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. Holding regular Agile retrospectives can be very useful in this regard and allow a safer communication to happen within the team.

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Split

AUGUST 25, 2020

Pato – In shaping the idea that became Split, we recognized that feature flags and experimentation sit at the foundation of agile development principles. (Or These are agile principles that are being adopted in every company that produces software. Or maybe we got lucky, I’ll never tell!). Adil – Your instincts are right.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Louis Columbus, a contributor at Forbes, notes that “Amazon’s patent portfolio is dominated by Cloud Computing, with the majority of the patents contributing to AWS’ current and future services roadmap. For initiatives where we required work from other teams, we used our twice-a-year product plans to try and get on their respective roadmaps.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

The over-focus on Agile rituals such as Standups, Sprint Planning and Retros has meant that we have forgotten the commercial aspects of our role. In start-ups, Product Managers often report that founders don’t allow them to steer the Product Strategy and Roadmap. The core of our Product Manager roles is how value is exchanged.

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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. This is supposed to be an open exercise: if you are in a management position, try and encourage usually silent voices to speak up. Finally: keep morals high!

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

” There’s this tenet from the Agile Manifesto that’s really important, which is that each team owns the way they work and they’re constantly iterating on it to make it better. This is an extension again of that Agile mindset. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s not any one person’s responsibility.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 29, 2019

Get everyone out of the office once a week for lunch, take a brainstorming session outside of the office, get some exercise. Focus on what should be on the roadmap to make that happen. You’ll have gained greater intuition on how to help them and where you can be most effective. Need ideas?

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Your product roadmap is not a model, an algorithm or an artifact, it is an ongoing political process that requires careful management of the relevant stakeholders. Rich Mironov (CEO, Mironov Consulting) – What To Do About Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions from Business of Software Conference. Watch the video below.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

For mature startups, this may come through in software acquisitions or new internal product builds. Also roadmap flexibility. The roadmap changes more often in SaaS, meaning more communication with stakeholders. There is no one-size-fits-all; it’s an ongoing exercise. What trends are emerging in SaaS product management?

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

Elizabeth Grantham – Founder and Product Owner at TheOptimal.me – subscription exercise plans for mature women. We bring a startup mindset and agile methods to both established companies and the public sector to unlock value in ways that delight their customers and improve their operational effectiveness.

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Radical Product

JUNE 19, 2018

By thinking of your impact on the world as a “product”, you gain access to the same set of tools that product leaders use to achieve their product vision: hypothesis-driven measurement and iteration, clear and compelling product vision and strategy, and a cross-functional roadmap that brings the team together.

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ProductBoard

JANUARY 29, 2019

It’s credited for the rise and dominance of companies like Intel and Google, where it has helped them move mountains, but also maintain alignment and agility at scale. And it’s been employed by thousands of smaller organizations that are plenty agile, yet looking to focus their scattershot efforts on one clear strategy.

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

” Hope and I both believe this is really kind of the opposite of what the Agile Manifesto encourages us to do, which is to allow our teams to find what works best for them, and to constantly iterate and take a continuous improvement mindset to the way that we work. Like everything, we see agile in a hundred flavors.

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Tyner Blain

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The body of work seems to be focused on aspects of goodness which don’t help product managers to make the prioritization decisions which inform their roadmaps. MVP / Lean Startup is a learning process fueled with hypothesis testing, following the scientific method. Use the concept to drive learning, not roadmaps.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I’ve been in product management roles or engineering management or UX or business development or agile enablement. Also I wrote this book on product roadmaps. And even if you are going to put everything on your roadmap which is not uncommon you need to decide what you’re going to work on first.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 28, 2019

A user adoption strategy is a roadmap that helps you develop a product that people want to use. Clearly the whole point of this is exercise is to improve user adoption. Secondly, it makes you a lot more agile. Joe is a UX and content writer, with several years of experience working with SaaS startups. About the Author.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

Because you could imagine Concur was a startup, and then we got acquired by SAP. ” And how that exercise was set up was this core group, like, we’re calling it just, like, a virtual team, was given a prompt of just, like, how might we see the evolution of work in the next one year versus the next three years?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

There’s no use in taking a few months to build an epic 40-page report on the next move when the idea is to be fast and agile. ” And in Intercom and elsewhere, we’ve been thinking about what that actually means for startups, for seed-stage companies, all the way through to mid and late-stage companies. Making the right bets.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It’s not even about what should be a roadmap and what shouldn’t be. And there’s been so much energy over the years, and you can blame or credit whoever you want: lean startup, lean UX, all these movements, outputs. And startups die unless they ship. Des: The inputs get digested down into a roadmap.

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Roadmunk

MAY 15, 2018

I report to the GM, or the CEO of Venmo, and I’m really responsible for the roadmap, and strategy, and what we’re doing next. . Maybe like showing our roadmap, which is kind of ironic considering who I’m talking to right now. What I do now at Venmo is I manage the product management team.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And ultimately, what happens with the product that you’re maintaining that’s been around for a number of years is that you’re only improving it on the margins, you have to kind of launch a whole new version to really get in and like really exercise your skills. First off, just to be clear, we don’t have a roadmap.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

We’ve come to see that “design thinking” and “agile engineering” are their own systems of organizational structures, workflows, philosophies, and skillsets. There were a number of individuals and startup founders who were putting the necessary ideas, workflows, and tactics together.

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