The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Challenge of Balancing Vision vs. Leadership or investors push for short-term wins that conflict with the roadmap. Strategies for Maintaining Product Vision Without Losing Adaptability Use a structured prioritization framework (e.g., Use decision-making frameworks (e.g., Below is a preview of key insights.

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Productside

JUNE 17, 2025

What WellNest needed wasn’t another roadmap or velocity boost. Enter the Blueprint: A Framework for Strategic Product Management The Productside Blueprint helps teams align on what matters, validate what’s true, and build what works. Create: Prioritize, align, and build a strategic roadmap. Each phase builds on the last.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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The Product Guy

JUNE 17, 2025

You can get access to all of it on The Product Way Patreon plus weekly content including: product frameworks, case studies, deep dives, and more! Strategic PMs impact the organization, not just the roadmap. Before we dive into the highlights… Want the full, enhanced recap with strategy tools you can use right now?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. I find that the framework is best suited for products that are affected by a significant amount of uncertainty and change.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

. “Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. Act I: Embracing agile principles.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

We use UXDAs Digital Experience Branding Framework to help ambitious financial institutions build strong, future-ready digitalbrands. The most successful brands are agile, continuously refining their identity to meet the evolving needs of their customers. How can financial brands meet these expectations? Below, we will tell youhow.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” In this article, I tie the older posts to the framework. How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

In Scrum—the framework that gave birth to the product owner—the role is responsible for maximising the value a product creates for the users and for the business. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. This has created more confusion and increased the misconceptions of the role.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

But you can think of the product owner as an agile product manager, as I explain in the article “ Product Manager vs. Product Owner ”. In the agile scaling framework LeSS, the role is referred to as “ Area Product Owner “ A component owner owns an architecture building block like a user-interface layer or a payment service.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

1password.com) Strikingly- Public Forum, Idea Forum , where customers request and vote on features Public Roadmap (ie Slack , bitsian ) . Are things that we are learning finding their way into the roadmap? How do you internally communicate customer requests/feedback vs the roadmap? A decision making framework that I use is.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” In this article, I tie the older posts to the framework. How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” In this article, I tie the older posts to the framework. How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. That’s understandable, as the framework is focused on the development of complex products. I believe that the first definition is more helpful, especially in an agile context. Listen to this article: [link]. Why the Scrum Team is Not Enough.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. Agile development methodologies. And even roadmaps. The Jobs To Be Done framework has a whole methodology for finding unmet needs of market segments. Product manager =? Product Owner.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another. like all other agile frameworks?—?isn’t

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2017

The confusion stems—at least partly—from the fact that Scrum is a simple framework focused on helping teams develop software. It does not cover common product management practices, such as, product strategy development, product roadmapping, and financial forecasting; and the only product management tool it offers is the product backlog. .”

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I wanted to share with you the framework I use when doing this. I review strategies and roadmaps. Then we put together a roadmap for change, and I check in with them along the way as they transform. Others are SaaS companies that are scaling or have scaled recently and want to ensure they are doing it in the best way.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Scrum is a simple framework designed to facilitate the development of complex products. Product Goals and the Product Roadmap. But unless you can’t see further than the next few months, I recommend determining the next three to four product goals and capturing them on your product roadmap , as figure 3 below shows.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is Product Roadmap?

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. Look at leadership as an integral part of your job that is at least as important as updating the product roadmap and refining the product backlog. Agile Process Constraints.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. Look at leadership as an integral part of your job that is at least as important as updating the product roadmap and refining the product backlog. Agile Process Constraints.

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Gocious Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

How Our Roadmaps Work with SAFe, Hybrid, and Custom Operations As manufacturers, your companies operate in an environment of constant innovation, high competition, and complex product portfolios. To stay ahead, companies often adopt structured frameworks to manage product development.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

If the answer to these questions is yes, then Scrum is probably not the best framework for your product. You can use it to implement an agile process with the flexibility to work on different items and release them individually at different times. Neither Scrum nor any other framework is always the best fit.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. With Dual-Track Agile, the development team participates in the discovery track – often led by the lead engineer, the UX designer, and the product manager.

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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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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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Modus Create

JULY 21, 2020

Agile at Scale, or Scaled Agile, is all the rage! When and who should implement Scaled Agile? Scaled Agile is a way for organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. In this blog post, we’ll review why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2021

So when does it make sense to customize your agile approach to gain a strategic advantage? They want an agile approach, so they started with Scrum. We don't think we need to be “religious” about our agile approach as long as we get the benefit. Then, they Built their agile approach based on their needs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2023

They also need their portfolio management or governance processes to align well with core agile practices; otherwise, there will be a fundamental disconnect with the agile approach being used at the individual product level. This article lays out strategies for portfolio planning.

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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. Trying to build the right thing without a solid discovery framework is like setting off on a road trip without a map or destination.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Previously, Bruce joined us for a three-part series on creating and using product roadmaps. He is the co-author of the book Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction While Embracing Uncertainty. 7:13] How did you move from focusing on roadmaps to focusing on stakeholder management? ” What a great quote.

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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You use an outcome-based product roadmap and/or an opportunity solution tree , personas , user journey maps, and the product backlog to capture and validate your decisions and guide the product delivery effort. In the scaling framework SAFe, however, the SAFe product owner has level-one empowerment, as far as I can tell. [4]

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

For example, to set product-related goals you might choose to use my goal-setting framework and my strategy and roadmap templates. Goal setting: Determine the right outcomes and capture them in the right way. Collaborative decision-making: Leverage people’s collective expertise and secure their buy-in. Know when to delegate.

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