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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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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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 12, 2017

He has a background in the public and private sectors and he begins his ProductTank NYC presentation with a quote from Steve Jobs, which underpins the central concept of Servant Leadership. Josh takes a brief moment to look at the roadmap of local government. Next, Josh references John Maeda, author of Learning Oscillation.

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Split

MAY 15, 2024

In a DevOps environment, deployment refers to the technical process of moving software from a development environment to a test, staging, or production environment, ensuring it is operational and ready for use. In Agile and DevOps methodologies, deployment and release work together to enable rapid, iterative delivery of software.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Recently, Dave Gipp partnered with Adam Mattis of Scaled Agile to discuss strategic planning. Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution.

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

By optimizing release management flows, teams can facilitate on-demand deployments that enhance business agility without compromising stability. The release management process flow refers to the end-to-end workflow for a new software release across its entire lifecycle. What is the Release Management Process Flow?

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” Please refer to my article “ Scaling the Product Owner Role ” for more information on how to jointly manage a product.). Prioritise.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Without knowing why you want to use agile approaches throughout the organization, you can’t generate reasonable measurements.

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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. As you learn from the tests and the business evolves, you should strive to be agile and reconsider your priorities continuously. The right data and experimentation tools.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2019

It got me thinking about how when companies first started adopting Agile methodologies on their software engineering teams, they quickly ran into obstacles with the rest of the organization. It’s hard to be Agile when the rest of the business wants fixed delivery dates or wants to dictate requirements. Tweet This. Improve productivity.

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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. Sprint planning.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

10) Protect the team vs Challenging the team Whether you like it or not as a Product Manager you are in a leadership position. link] 11) Give credit for success vs Take responsibility for failures Another feature of leadership is being in the shadows?—?shining This is leadership and the role of Product Management.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 1, 2020

The product backlog is a feature level document that feeds on high level objectives as per the product roadmap. In other words, the high level objectives for a long period of duration are a part of the product roadmap. There cannot be a greater injustice to the role of product management than abandoning a product roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach. To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1]

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

There’s a lot you won’t find in other product management books; for example, a comprehensive review of different types of roadmaps, how to get to the next level in your product management career, and a product management skills self-assessment. You’ll find a lot of great advice and fine points of product leadership.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories. Support from the senior leadership team also shot up. This became our reference point, and all activities – both product and marketing – had to align with one of these levers. It’s not that different from the current design.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

To delete the letters MVP from roadmaps and product charters. Marketing needs lots of late-stage assets: screen shots, validated benefit statements, ROI calculators, crisp segmentation, reference customers. Goal: upon completion, we want them to pay us something and be a sales reference. Here’s why….

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. This level of speed and agility is crucial to our success and we are unapologetic and unwavering in this belief.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

How many times I refer this post to new PMs still surprises me. But I’ve always been fascinated with Spotify’s famous squad, tribe, Survivor-esque sounding setup—especially as agile becomes status quo for product orgs, and more companies shift to this specific engineering culture. Visit our template library to get roadmapping. .

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Product Warrior

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Melissa Gee Kee , part of HR leadership at Unilever shared how they approached the problem and turned it into a disruptive opportunity at HR Tech Conference 2017 in Las Vegas. The last step in their process was assessment centres where pre-selected candidates met with Unilever leadership.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Value stream mapping is a common practice in the Agile space because it allows leaders and stakeholders to see where the flow of value delivery is slowing down and exposes opportunities to create better alignment across teams. Then it becomes a tool to help diagnose a problem (which is usually when Agile coaches are called in). .

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Product Culture

APRIL 4, 2015

What the startup CEO sees as responding with agility to opportunity, the product team secretly refers to as “shiny object syndrome.” Prioritizing solely on gut is one of the Dirty Dozen Roadmap Roadblocks I’ve been writing about recently. See my piece on getting buy-in on your roadmap.)

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Modus Create

JANUARY 26, 2021

Adopting Agile sounds as simple as taking the SCRUM master certification tests and pushing them down the framework to a team of developers. Usually, we find that the challenge of becoming agile is way larger than most companies like to admit. It was more a requirement to use the fancy word agile , than a real transformation program.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 21, 2022

There is (perhaps) nothing more fundamental for product managers and their teams than the product roadmap. Product teams refer back to their product roadmap to understand how a product or solution will develop over time. In many cases, product roadmapping software is offered as a SaaS (software-as-a-service) product.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. We started working with the product teams on how each tool – product strategy, OKRs, and roadmaps – should be used so that we could merge them together.

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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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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Continuous delivery refers to a software organization’s ability to quickly and easily push product updates like new features, bug fixes, or new UI designs to end users. Continuous deployment refers to a software organization’s effort to reduce the amount of time between writing code and pushing it live.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Mini-research means following agile and pragmatic research principles when time is limited and resources are scarce. Strategy questions When building a roadmap from scratch, the search area for meaningful user problems to solve has to be narrowed down first. So let’s talk about mini-research. Prioritise topics with the biggest impact.

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Hutwork

MARCH 19, 2018

Product management goes well beyond those certified in agile or another method. Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation. Agile Change Management shows you how to create a roadmap of the processes, activities, and information you need to manage any change initiative.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Note that in the picture, I use the term product manager to refer to the person in charge of the product. Your ScrumMaster or agile coach might be able to help you with this. Should you move from monthly strategy and roadmap reviews to quarterly, as the product has stabilised? This does include product owners, of course.

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ProductPlan

JULY 15, 2021

Much like the agile process , your picture gets better as you build, measure, and learn. So when it comes to vision or leadership, having great proxy metrics is essential. Proxy metrics, even far removed from the leadership level, can give insight. Second-Order Effect refers to the idea that every action has a consequence.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2021

Smaller, younger firms are by nature more agile, and it’s easier to get change buy-in. These themes might seem obvious at times, but a smart and accurate tagline for the initiative can become a helpful mantra and reference point for the project’s life. Get change-buy in with a roadmap. It’s all about people.

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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. So, when people are asked, especially from a leadership team or an exec team, “Hey, we need to accelerate,” I think what they mean is accelerate business growth, which usually comes down to revenue.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 13, 2018

” And for agile product teams, this sentiment couldn’t ring more true. Unplanned work could refer to anything from support escalations, to emergency outages, to feature requests coming in sideways, or stakeholder demands. Unexpected projects can impact the team’s ability to deliver on roadmap. As Dwight D.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

The following is a framework that I use (loosely based on the Scaled Agile Framework ) to help navigate the strategy maze and to stay focused on influencing the appropriate stakeholders. Each of these decisions should be relatively contained and be able to be made by the agile team without any external dependencies.

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ProductPlan

JULY 21, 2021

If your company uses Agile for product development, hybrid work only reinforces the importance of rituals. This creates more incentive than ever to establish and maintain regular Agile routines. This happens because colleagues are more likely to refer to these than pester with chats and phone calls for clarification.

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