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Six Qualities of a Great Product Vision

Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

An inspiring vision creates a meaningful purpose for everyone involved in making the product a success including the stakeholders and development team members. It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change. The vision pulls you.”. A shared vision unites people.

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Building a Strong Product Vision and Strategy: A Roadmap to Success

The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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My Product Strategy Model

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

How does it differ from a product roadmap and how do the two plans relate? And what’s their relationship to the product vision and the product backlog? At the heart of the model in figure 1 are four artefacts: the product vision, the product strategy, the product roadmap, and the product backlog.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Product Strategy Agility: How to Use Experiments and Options to Create Products Your Customers Love

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Translate Your Vision to Action with an Internal Roadmap

The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

You’ve got a clear vision for the future, and it looks bright! Part one of this article taught you how to align a roadmap with aspirational business goals. This step gets into what people think of when they ask for a roadmap. This step may be the biggest challenge to a realistic roadmap. What are you going to work on?

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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It’s the first step to bring about positive change. You are not in a position to decline feature requests. As you are not empowered to determine the product features, you are not in a position to manage the product and significantly impact the value it creates. I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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Aren’t Outcome-Based Product Roadmaps Just Roadmaps Anyway?

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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The “Why” Behind Your Product Roadmap

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.” And while strategy and Roadmaps set the direction, they are not enough to deliver results.

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Position Products Perfectly, Prototyping Properly: Product Management Alphabet Aerobics

The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2022

Position Products Perfectly, Prototyping Properly: Product Management Alphabet Aerobics was originally published in Product Coalition on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. What, in my world, is a worthwhile Wow, Witness wonderful, worthwhile wonders now.

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Effective Use of Product Roadmap Software to Align Your Product Strategy

ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Vital to delivering successful products at Clickatell , an effective product roadmap can quell the confusion and missteps that often derail well-meaning product delivery organizations. Roadmaps provide the required context to understand how individual initiatives combine to meet strategic objectives.

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TEI 289: Become an agile leader of product management – with Roman Pichler

Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. 2:00] What is agile product management? Agile product management is product management infused or enriched by agile practices and principles. We don’t have any positional authority or transactional power.

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Scaled Agile – Why? When? How?

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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How to Overcome 6 Key Product Leadership Challenges

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. In other words, you are not their boss. At the same time, you depend on the individuals. Limited Influence on Group Selection.

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How to Overcome 6 Key Product Leadership Challenges

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. In other words, you are not their boss. At the same time, you depend on the individuals. Limited Influence on Group Selection.

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Combining DevOps and Agile Transformations to Achieve Business Outcomes

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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Creating Good Roadmaps: 6 Practical Steps for Product Leaders

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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Digital Transformation Strategies for Enterprises: Key Elements

The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. Agility and adaptability are paramount The business landscape is constantly evolving, and trends can shift rapidly. Vision & goals Now, chart your course. What are digital transformation strategies?

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The “Agile C-Suite” and The Critical Role It Plays in an Organization’s Path to Agility

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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What Is Product Management? Roles, Process, Tools, and More

Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Here’s why it’s important: Defines a product vision and aligns strategy with organization goals. Champions a customer-centric approach.

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From Conception to Reality: Navigating the Product Development Stages

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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A Brief Guide to Product Discovery

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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Agile Release Planning Guide for Scrum Teams

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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The Benefits of Collaborative Discovery and Pre-Wiring Your Roadmap

Bain Public

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As a product manager, you must have the ability to create a business-viable product vision. Not only that, but this vision needs to drive and influence others to execute and deliver the components needed to build out that vision and make it a reality. At times, that requires a lot of diplomacy and emotional agility.

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Q&A with Digital Transformation Experts: Lauren Chan Lee, Product Management Leader, Formerly Care.com

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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How to Become an eCommerce Product Manager Without Experience

The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Common skills among eCommerce product managers include being able to do market research, run an online store, craft a product strategy, and develop customer journey roadmaps for websites. On top of that, a lot of business development managers of companies today work with the agile development process.

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37 Roadmap Tips to Align Stakeholders

ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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Is Agile Product Development Right for Your Team?

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

OK, everybody knows Agile is one of the best product methodologies out there. Well, for those who are unsure about what Agile Product Development means, this post will refresh their memory first. Indeed, it has been a while since Agile was first popularized by a manifesto from product developers. Well, the answer is, it depends.

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Best Practices to Improve Product and Feature Velocity

Userpilot

JANUARY 6, 2023

Benefits are the positive outcomes features bring to users. A product roadmap consists of themes; themes consist of initiatives and initiatives of epics. Agile teams use story points to express velocity and burndown charts to track it. Developing only the features that are in line with product vision also increases velocity.

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Product Development Process: The Seven Stages Explained

Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

designing screens, writing code, running tests), product management is a broader concept that encompasses strategy , vision, and product-market fit. Product management team: Product managers set the vision, define a strategy, and build a roadmap that helps focus the team's efforts.

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How to Create Your Product Roadmap in 2020 (5 Templates Included)

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Product Roadmaps are some of the most important product tools. Learn how to create your product roadmap in 2019, including 5 templates you can get inspiration from. Roadmapping is one of the unsung heroes in the product arena. Perfect your roadmapping skills by learning from the examples below! Useful, right?

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10 Ways a Feature-Less Roadmap Helps Your Product Strategy

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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Be in a Band, not an Orchestra: how to Grow an Agile Product Team

Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

I suggested that as someone in a position of leading a digital product team, you should always strive to make your team feel like they are in a band and not an orchestra. My job was to define a vision for the product and create a plan to deliver it. Product Vision. Creating the vision for the product early was important.

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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2)

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

TL; DR: 71 Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Imposters If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. You can sign up here for our weekly ‘Food of Agile Thought newsletter’ and join 29k other subscribers. ??

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The Top 10 Deliverables of Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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How to Become a Director of Product

The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

If you’re looking to move forward from a product manager position, you need to have a formal degree. That said, it’s best to avoid adding any entry-level position if you want to keep your resume on a single page. Therefore, to move to a director position, you need to show how good you are with the strategy part.

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Feature Prioritization Matrix 101 for Product Teams

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. Product vision. What’s more, not all feature requests will be in line with the product vision.

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Product Management Process: The 8-Stage Guide to Smash Your Goals in 2023

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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A Well-Balanced Roadmap: Combining Near-Term Priorities with Long-Term Goals

ProductPlan

JULY 3, 2019

Creating a product roadmap containing both sets of plans might result in a document that’s super specific on the left while being fuzzy and amorphous on the right, which might be confusing to some viewers. Why you need a roadmap for short-term plans and a roadmap for long-term plans. Short-term roadmaps may not be guaranteed.

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Tips for Rewriting a Digital Product

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

Finally, capture your insights and describe the product’s current strategy: the people it serves, the value it creates for the users and business, and its key features, for instance, by using my Product Vision Board. Once you have identified the right way forward, capture your decisions in a product roadmap like my GO Product Roadmap.

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How You Deal With the People Involved: Lessons in Stakeholder Management

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 31, 2023

Any vision one might have for the product will never lift off the ground unless the entire team buys in and signs off on it. A common scenario I face is when I’m questioned about the product roadmap and prioritization. How to collaborate with stakeholders to ensure everybody wins. Clients want to make their own customers happy.

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Taking Over an Existing Product: Product Management Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

One catalyst for this scenario is when a colleague leaves, or changes positions. Or, you have switched positions, so you move on from your other responsibilities. Write up questions, assumptions, directions for a vision. Capture their vision If the outgoing product manager has a roadmap and vision, great.

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449: The secret advice tech companies use to excel in product – with Ben Foster

Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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How to Create Your Product Roadmap in 2019 (5 Templates Included)

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Roadmapping is one of the unsung heroes in the product arena. The principles of creating a Product Roadmap First of all: as PMs, you are assumed to hold an ability to improvise. That said, a Product Roadmap is a good tool to actually anticipate mistakes. What should we include on a Product Roadmap? Useful, right?

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7 Roadmap Changes That Will Make a Big Difference to Computer Software Product Managers

ProductPlan

APRIL 1, 2020

So how do product roadmaps help ensure this remains the case? Product Roadmaps for Computer Software Product Managers. Product roadmaps provide the cohesive vision and story for your product, aligning stakeholders , and illustrating how each minor improvement leads to more significant gains. Good ideas are a dime a dozen.

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Effective Product Transformation Planning for the New Year

ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The global pandemic has taught us that businesses who remain agile and open to digital transformation will be successful, but that that doesn’t guarantee changes in how a company operates. A well-formed roadmap is your best ammunition to create space and respect. Roadmaps aid your transformation.

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Six Qualities of a Great Product Vision

Building a Strong Product Vision and Strategy: A Roadmap to Success

Webinars

Trending Sources

My Product Strategy Model

Webinars

Translate Your Vision to Action with an Internal Roadmap

3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Aren’t Outcome-Based Product Roadmaps Just Roadmaps Anyway?

The “Why” Behind Your Product Roadmap

Position Products Perfectly, Prototyping Properly: Product Management Alphabet Aerobics

Effective Use of Product Roadmap Software to Align Your Product Strategy

TEI 289: Become an agile leader of product management – with Roman Pichler

Scaled Agile – Why? When? How?

How to Overcome 6 Key Product Leadership Challenges

How to Overcome 6 Key Product Leadership Challenges

Combining DevOps and Agile Transformations to Achieve Business Outcomes

Creating Good Roadmaps: 6 Practical Steps for Product Leaders

Digital Transformation Strategies for Enterprises: Key Elements

The “Agile C-Suite” and The Critical Role It Plays in an Organization’s Path to Agility

What Is Product Management? Roles, Process, Tools, and More

From Conception to Reality: Navigating the Product Development Stages

A Brief Guide to Product Discovery

Agile Release Planning Guide for Scrum Teams

The Benefits of Collaborative Discovery and Pre-Wiring Your Roadmap

Q&A with Digital Transformation Experts: Lauren Chan Lee, Product Management Leader, Formerly Care.com

How to Become an eCommerce Product Manager Without Experience

37 Roadmap Tips to Align Stakeholders

Is Agile Product Development Right for Your Team?

Best Practices to Improve Product and Feature Velocity

Product Development Process: The Seven Stages Explained

How to Create Your Product Roadmap in 2020 (5 Templates Included)

10 Ways a Feature-Less Roadmap Helps Your Product Strategy

Be in a Band, not an Orchestra: how to Grow an Agile Product Team

71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2)

The Top 10 Deliverables of Product Managers

How to Become a Director of Product

Feature Prioritization Matrix 101 for Product Teams

Product Management Process: The 8-Stage Guide to Smash Your Goals in 2023

A Well-Balanced Roadmap: Combining Near-Term Priorities with Long-Term Goals

Tips for Rewriting a Digital Product

How You Deal With the People Involved: Lessons in Stakeholder Management

Taking Over an Existing Product: Product Management Lessons Learned

449: The secret advice tech companies use to excel in product – with Ben Foster

How to Create Your Product Roadmap in 2019 (5 Templates Included)

7 Roadmap Changes That Will Make a Big Difference to Computer Software Product Managers

Effective Product Transformation Planning for the New Year

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