bpma ProductHub

APRIL 17, 2017

By Don Stoddard – In the very best companies, roadmaps support key objectives with very specific measures impacting the business. Roadmaps are great at showing a direction, but they often don’t tell the story of “why.” Their teams are aligned on a strategy that is supported by specific objectives and resources.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Product roadmaps is one of the subjects I am probably the most passionate about in the product world. While browsing one of the online communities I am part of, someone commented that outcome-based roadmaps were just ‘regular roadmaps’ anyway, and that: “… Any product manager that knows what they’re doing doesn’t need outcome-based roadmaps.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On the ANE panel last night, an agile coach asked, “What's my path forward as an agile coach? Bring empathy to the client's pressures and position. Focus on business results, not agility per se. Teams might feel pressure from a too-large backlog or too-long roadmap. Nobody wants to “be agile.”

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates. Timeboxed Strategizing.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. An economic downturn, a war — you name it.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As the individual is a peer and not the boss, they cannot tell people what to do and they are usually not in a position to offer rewards like a promotion. 2 ] It does not derive from a position on the org chart. The individual’s power consequently originates from their position. Instead, it must be earned. Know when to delegate.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change. If that’s not the case, then it will be difficult to encourage the individuals to agree to more specific goals and to follow a product strategy and a product roadmap that are based on the vision.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2020

Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about why we’re so hostile to including features on product roadmaps. But we do believe there is a far more effective way to arrange a roadmap than as a list of features.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

Does portfolio management impact our agile process? If you stick to the fact that agile is a development methodology and not a product management framework, it will have no impact whatsoever on your agile process. The only thing that changes is the prioritization process that feeds your product roadmaps and backlogs.

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Part one of this article taught you how to align a roadmap with aspirational business goals. Participants: Product Manager (required), Product Owner (required), Development Manager (required), Business stakeholders (optional) Guiding Questions: What are the highest value projects that will help realize your strategy at the end of the roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Will the product make a positive impact on people’s lives, the wider society, and the planet, or will it at least not cause any harm ? To carry out the discovery work, bring together the right people, product person, development team representative, key stakeholders , and Scrum Master or agile coach, as shown in the picture below.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

You consequently don’t have any transactional power : You cannot tell people what to do; you cannot assign tasks to them; and you are typically not in a position to offer a bonus, pay raise, or other incentives. Consequently, do not neglect the product discovery and strategy work. In other words, you are not their boss.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

You consequently don’t have any transactional power : You cannot tell people what to do; you cannot assign tasks to them; and you are typically not in a position to offer a bonus, pay raise, or other incentives. Consequently, do not neglect the product discovery and strategy work. In other words, you are not their boss.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Said another way, this week’s new “must do” items look like a year’s worth of additions to the roadmap.    (Agilists state this in the positive: “start less, finish more.”)   To do most of them, we’d need to violate the time-space continuum.

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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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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum.

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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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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The product management process starts with building an understanding of your users and the market, defining a vision and strategy , generating and prioritizing ideas that could solve user problems, articulating them in a clear roadmap, launching an MVP, and then gathering feedback to evolve it over time. Drives product success.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Clear roadmaps will ensure you reach your goals. But there’s a reality about life, yeah following your roadmap chronologically will help you reach your goals safely, but there’ll be distractions and roadmaps are not linear. You should update your roadmap with new technologies, or with a piece of new information you’ve learned.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 7, 2020

Roadmapping is a crucial part of every product manager’s role, but it’s safe to say a lot of PMs don’t particularly enjoy it. Luckily, there are some excellent product roadmap tools out there to help make it more bearable. In this article, we’re going to look at the most popular product roadmap tools. What will the roadmap show?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

What is Agile Release Planning? In Agile, a release is a group of software features that can be developed and deployed to the users in a given period. Adding more plans and meetings to an Agile team can seem like a slowdown which feels scary given that Agile is all about speed and deployments. How Do You Plan a Release?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

designing screens, writing code, running tests), product management is a broader concept that encompasses strategy , vision, and product-market fit. It involves all the steps right the way through, from initial ideation and research to concept development, prototyping, mass production, distribution strategy, and ultimately market launch.

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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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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 26, 2020

UPMC’s ability to respond quickly to market demands boils down to how its teams are aligned with its enterprise-level strategies – a primary focus of Claire’s role. Armed with this knowledge, she is better positioned to collaborate with product managers regarding where a given solution or feature may fit into the product roadmap, if at all.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

To remain competitive, organizations must be able to adopt digital transformation strategies that are agile, scalable, secure, and cost-effective. By taking a holistic view of the entire process, organizations can identify areas of improvement and make the necessary changes to become more agile and responsive to customer needs.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

Itamar highlights three types of product launches: Positive – where a product is launched and is incrementally improved upon. In most companies, we try to plan the long-term future with an organisational strategy which feeds into a product strategy. At Google and Bing, only 10-20% of experiments generate positive results.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

GenAI can fundamentally transform how businesses operate, fostering agility, efficiency, and innovation. Generative AI enables companies to innovate rapidly, adapt to market changes efficiently, and establish a leading position in their industries. This agility provides a significant advantage in staying ahead of competitors.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Agile vs. agile. Are you Agile, or are you agile?” Adopting Agile methodologies like Scrum , Kanban , eXtreme Programming , or some combination of the above has been a trend, or some might say a craze, affecting digital product management for many years. Outcome-driven vs. feature-based roadmaps.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

We need to convince stakeholders in other departments to buy into strategies and get things done. As a product manager, implementing an effective product strategy should remain a priority. Now that the roles have switched, you want to set up your product team for success, by developing your own product leader communication strategies.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 1, 2020

This legacy of outdated product versions lingering on laptops, smartphones, and servers means it’s super important every release works well, has some staying power, and advances the product strategy—even if you keep cranking out updates. So how do product roadmaps help ensure this remains the case? Good ideas are a dime a dozen.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Next, put them on the roadmap , considering feature interdependencies and timelines. This enables the team to have a better chance of delivering a positive user experience and increasing customer satisfaction. To see how Userpilot can help you make informed prioritization decisions, book the demo! Finally, it increases ownership.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Product Management in an inter-disciplinary role which tries to marry Business strategy and Marketing with Design and Engineering, hence making better products that users need. In short, this is the team that drives the Product Roadmap of the company, managing the Product Releases according to customer expectations and businesss goals.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Especially when traffic in mobile is lower than other channels, you can overcome some of the ROI-based prioritization challenges by positioning mobile as a great place to test and reduce risk. Q: What’s your best tip for staying agile when implementing changes to your mobile digital transformation approach?

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