Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

That leads to large and unchangeable roadmaps and a lot of emphasis on predictability. Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. Product strategy, to define the value the products offer to the product's users/customers. Who are our customers/users?

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

You’ll help define the most relevant local payment methods to build (breadth) and aspects of payment methods to invest in (depth) to deliver the best outcomes for Stripe users. Who would be the best fit for this job? Who would be a bad fit for this job? Salary $178,600 – $268,000 Apply Here 2.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 4, 2019

According to our recent State of UX in the Enterprise survey , ‘including research within the product development process’ is now the #1 challenge faced by UX teams in 2019. But how can you get research into this early stage? UX Designer / Researcher | adjust.com. “I Also, I think the roadmap should be defined by research too.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Is it possible to balance the product innovation and feedback we need, with the commitment our management wants? When does it make sense to ask for more feedback instead? Let's start with the need for very fast product feedback. High Change: Do You Need Estimation or Feedback Now? The team still needs frequent feedback.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 6, 2022

Several of my clients have various roadmap problems. They want a single product roadmap to serve all these purposes: Focus the team's work for this specific product for the short term. Show customers where the company thinks the product is headed. The overview of which problems the company plans to solve for which customers.).

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Split

JUNE 14, 2024

It’s never been more important to prioritize customer feedback when iterating on new features. Customer feedback can fine tune your product roadmap. Receiving this feedback and acting upon it quickly can be the difference between an exiting new product or feature, or a project that is stuck in the mud.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 8, 2019

I started this series with the question: If we have teams for all other aspects of an agile approach, why wouldn't we want the product owner to also work as part of a team? Could a team reduce the feedback loop durations? Iterative, Incremental, and Agile Approaches Reduce the Feedback Loop Durations.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

” Matt LeMay Most teams dont suffer from a lack of ideas; they suffer from chasing work that looks good on a roadmap but fails to drive results. It involves thorough research and analysis of the target audience, their pain points, and existing solutions to create a product that meets user needs and provides business value.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations. These are planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance. Planning Before beginning with the planning — also called the feasibility stage, you should understand your product, target users’ needs, customers’ demands, and of course SDLC.

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Usersnap

AUGUST 26, 2021

There are two reactions to receiving customer feedback: “yippie!” or “ouch…” And while we can’t guarantee you 100% positive feedback, we do have some proven strategies and tactics to help you join those 84% of digital companies that prioritized working on customer experience and recorded an increase in revenue.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. In this article, we will look at what Lean product management is, how it can help you and how it can help your startup build great products that your customers love. It’s an actionable framework to achieve this product-market fit. Why does Lean matter?

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 11, 2022

However, the more often we deliver in short feedback loops, the more often we can make strategic decisions. The more often we iterate strategically, the more we exhibit business agility. The shorter the feedback loops, the easier it is to use what we finished to make a new decision about the next bit of work at all levels.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 25, 2018

I’m working on my roadmapping talk for Agile 2018. I finally had the transforming idea about how to position the talk: Roadmapping and product planning are about feedback loops. The shorter the feedback loop, the faster and more often we can learn. See the post about Double-Loop Learning.)

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ProductPlan

MARCH 27, 2019

When you’re continually shipping code, how do you plan, build, and communicate your roadmap? In this post we’ll outline the basics of continuous delivery, what it means to you as a product manager, and how to adapt your roadmapping process to best work in a continuous delivery environment. Continuous Delivery 101.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. It enables a diverse set of ideas from across the organization to be tested systematically and learnings to be internalized by everyone. Test everything!

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

What is a data product roadmap? What roadmap metrics should you be tracking? We also share software products you can use to create a foolproof product roadmap and drive product-led growth. The difference between a data product roadmap and the traditional approach is the former relies heavily on data. How do you build one?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. See Customers, Internal Delivery, And Trust for a recent post about demos and trust.) See TBM 8/52: The Problem With “Internal Customers ”. That's why the duration of the internal feedback loops is so important.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

More of my clients say they want business agility. Yet, we don't share a common definition of business agility. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Agile Transformation involves all levels of the organization and applies Lean-Agile principles to business processes, practices, tools, operations, and culture.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The leaders and change agents we meet are eager to ensure their Agile transformation avoids hitting rocks or running aground. We aim to address those obstacles in this article by offering three Agile transformation OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for you to consider. The First Agile transformation OKR – “Leader Engagement”.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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Modus Create

MAY 8, 2025

The rise of intelligent product development powered by AI and now agentic workflowscalls for a new kind of operating model: one that is agile, continuous, insight-driven, and AI-augmented. You can simulate user interactions with LLM personas. You can test hypotheses with synthetic data. What is intelligent product development?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Their goals are always stated in terms of delivering products and features (output), and never in terms of expected business and customer outcomes. Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development. Agile dev did away with project waterfall? users, market and business, fades into the background.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I have a new book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. I wrote it because I'm concerned about what I see in too many supposedly agile teams: Crazy-long backlogs and roadmaps. See Manage Unplanned Feedback Loops to Reduce Risks and Create Successful Products.)

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. Incremental innovation gives you time to listen to user feedback. In-app surveys , usability and prototype testing , or user interviews and focus groups can help you understand your customers’ requirements.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 22, 2022

We use product roadmaps to see where we want to go and the options we might take to get there. Yet, so many of our roadmaps offer only a single and certain destination. If we don't see options, we reduce our innovation decision points—and possibly disappoint our customers. Understand Your Personas.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Are you frustrated with how your users are underutilizing your product, complaining about it, and not realizing the value that it has to offer? TL;DR Digital adoption : Ensure users extract full value from your product features by measuring active users, feature usage, and product stickiness.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Agile isn’t particularly technical, but it represents the methodology and processes that most product development organizations now rely on. If you’re not comfortable and conversant with Agile concepts and language, you’ll struggle in your interactions with the team. First, it delivers value to customers faster and more often.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As the pace of change continues to accelerate, embracing agility – the ability to turn on a dime for a dime – has become a key to ongoing success for many organizations. However, when companies launch Agile Transformations in hybrid environments, it can introduce a new set of challenges. All fit our definition of hybrid.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2022

In Part 1 , I said that product roadmaps are not like car roadmaps. But even car roadmaps showed places of interest—options—for the driver and passengers. Too often, I see very predictable roadmaps for managers. Predictability vs. Option Discussion for Roadmaps. More on that later in this post.).

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2021

Are you looking for customer engagement solutions that can give you an upper hand in creating stronger customer relationships? It can be quite confusing if you don’t know what tactics will improve customer engagement in your product. Higher customer retention. Increased customer lifetime value ( LTV ). Lower churn.

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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. Assumptions —Every idea needs to be validated with actual paying customers.

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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They cover the concept of the Product Owner role, product discovery, how to deal with external and internal stakeholders, product portfolio and product roadmap planning, and the Product Backlog refinement. and the Product Owner quickly becomes the Achilles heel of any agile organization. resulting from the Scrum Team’s work?—?that

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Modus Create

MARCH 17, 2022

Our recent report 2022 State of Digital Transformation revealed that 57% of enterprises had adopted an agile framework for implementing digital initiatives. Even the federal government follows agile methodologies for 80% of its IT projects. . What is Agile Leadership? 5 Principles of Agile Leadership.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What is the product-market fit framework? How is product market fit different from product-customer fit? A company achieves the product-market fit when the product satisfies the needs of enough customers who are willing to pay for it, and it is easy to scale. What is product-market fit (PMF)?

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