Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

5] What about Product Roadmap Generation? You might have noticed that I didnt list the creation of product roadmaps as an AI benefit, even though several tools offer it. There are two reasons for this: First, the AI-generated roadmaps I came across during my research were feature-based, which is a roadmapping approach I dont recommend.

Product Strategy

The Product Guy

AUGUST 3, 2025

This shift is exactly why we’re launching a new Roadmap to Mastery series on The Product Way: Product + AI: The 8 Zones of Impact A 4-part deep dive into where AI is changing the game, and where it might be quietly eroding your team’s product judgment.

Product Research

Product Talk

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We all have full backlogs, most of us are behind on our roadmaps, we all have too much on our plates. I’ve seen countless calendars where product people are double and triple-booked on a regular basis. The Value of Continuous Interviewing: Uncover Opportunities You Never Thought to Ask About I get it. Product teams are busy.

Product Research

The Product Guy

JULY 29, 2025

AI-generated ideas filled the roadmap. Inside the Full Article This shift is just one of three structural changes I explore in the first deep-dive of Product + AI , a new strategic series within the Roadmap to Mastery Collection on The Product Way. Join The Product Way to access this article and the full Roadmap to Mastery library.

Product Research

The Product Guy

JANUARY 17, 2025

If youve been frustrated by the limitations of roadmapping software, this episode offers insightful reflections on whats needed in the market. What You’ll Learn: The Challenge with Tools: Why existing systems fail to tie strategy, roadmaps, and tasks together effectively.

Product Management

Business Acumen Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Key Business Acumen Books by Steven Haines To help you on your journey, we recommend exploring the following books by Steven Haines, a renowned expert in business acumen: The Business Acumen Handbook: A comprehensive guide to business fundamentals, including financial literacy, strategic thinking, and effective communication.

Books

The Product Guy

JULY 15, 2025

In this week’s Roadmap to Mastery article on The Product Way , I dive deep into the structural forces that cause even high-performing product teams to burn out and what you can do to stop it before it spirals. Join The Product Way to access this article and the full Roadmap to Mastery library. And it’s not personal weakness.

Roadmap

Userpilot

JULY 19, 2025

In Userpilot, data-based personas are a crucial part of our product management process and dictate our product decisions, marketing messages, and product roadmaps. Book a demo to start gathering insights without coding! Why do you need user personas? Want to see how Userpilot can back your user personas with quality data?

User Testing

The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2025

In our newest Patreon-exclusive Roadmap to Mastery article , we explore: The types of questions that unlock clarity across customers, teams, and stakeholders. This is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collectionavailable exclusively on The Product Way Patreon. How asking What are we really trying to solve?

Strategy

The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2025

This new Patreon-exclusive article in the Roadmap to Mastery series explores how to lead feature removals with evidence, clarity, and confidence. Feature bloat slows teams down, confuses users, and hides the real value of your product. But most teams avoid removals because they feel risky, political, or like an admission of failure.

Leadership

The Product Guy

MAY 16, 2025

This new Patreon-exclusive article in the Roadmap to Mastery series explores how to lead prioritization with structure, confidence, and buy-in. Balancing technical constraints, stakeholder agendas, and long-term goals is hard. Even experienced PMs get stuck in opinion-driven debates or lose clarity under pressure.

Technical Review

The Product Guy

JULY 7, 2025

That’s why I wrote this week’s Roadmap to Mastery article on The Product Way Patreon. Get access to this, the full Roadmap to Mastery library, and much more content here: [link] This is the trap of busyness, and it’s one too many PMs fall into. We confuse output with impact. We chase responsiveness instead of results.

Roadmap

The Product Guy

MAY 1, 2025

But it can help you do them more effectively.

Roadmap

Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Your roadmap, now skewed by partial data, doubles down on solving the wrong problem. Book a demo to discover how Userpilot can help your product team unify and track their metrics in one place effectively. You dig in and notice a sharp drop-off among marketing-qualified leads. But that view only reflects web users.

Data Visualization

Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Top AI PMs stand out by: Focusing on solving customer problems rather than just implementing trendy AI features Thinking critically about the right interface for AI in their products (not always a chatbot) Balancing short-term deliverables with long-term exploration of new technologies To thrive as an individual-contributor PM: Bring high energy to (..)

Feedback Software

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

I have been helping her reshape how product management is perceived in the company by building a solid product strategy, team structure, roadmap, processes, and more. Over the past year, I’ve been working closely with H., helping the company transition from a founder-led product approach to building a strong, sustainable product culture.

User Testing

Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Product planning features: Pendo Listen allows you to build product roadmaps based on user feedback and idea validation. So book a demo today to see how we can help you unlock product growth! Why consider Pendo as a Userpilot competitor Advanced AI capabilities: Pendo has AI integrated into different modules.

Data Visualization

The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In our latest Patreon-exclusive article , part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , we explore: Why trust is now a product featurenot just a brand value. This is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collectionavailable exclusively on The Product Way Patreon. Actionable strategies to integrate trust into your product strategy.

Differentiation

The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

” In our latest Patreon-exclusive article , part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , we explore: Why soft skillsnot technical skillswill be the deciding factor in PM success. This is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collectionavailable exclusively on The Product Way Patreon.

Technical Review

Usersnap

JUNE 26, 2025

Roadmaps ship but they don’t shift any key metrics. .” — David Pereira Try Usersnap for Smart Discovery Try Usersnap Now Why Most Product Discovery Phases Quietly Fail Let’s be real: discovery is broken in a lot of teams. Interviews happen but no one acts on the findings. Feature requests pile up and PMs become glorified ticket takers.

Product Research

The Product Manager Coach Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

Could you manage a roadmap, run a standup, and charm stakeholders? Book a free call with me to explore how I can support you through this transition. Book a free consultation to see how coaching could accelerate your hybrid PM evolution. Great, heres your Jira access. Not anymore. In 2025, those basics are table stakes.

Research Software

People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 30, 2025

Try this exercise: Take your current roadmap and ask "Why?" Learn more about me on my website or pick up my book. Here's a framework I use with my coaching clients: Tactical thinking : How do we solve this problem? Strategic thinking : Is this the right problem to solve? three times for each initiative. Let’s talk.

User Testing

Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2025

Analyze the collected data Analyzing data systematically helps you identify the most critical issues and build a clear roadmap for effective mobile usability testing. Book a demo to see how Userpilot can help you run usability tests and uncover UX insights.

User Testing

Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

And its reporting features allow you to turn such raw data into actionable insights that you can use to inform your product roadmap. Features like idea voting help teams prioritize user requests and suggestions and feed them into roadmaps. It’s popular among software firms for tracking feature requests and bug reports.

Feedback Software

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The book describes the seven knowledge areas that professional product managers, innovators, and leaders must have mastery of. How do you align your product roadmap with overall business objectives? He co-authored Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge: A Guide Book for Product Innovation Training and Certification.

User Testing

Userpilot

MARCH 17, 2025

Very limited free plan Startup: $354/month Growth: $1,500/month Enterprise: Custom price Pendo WYSIWYG editor Checklists Product roadmapping Enterprise SaaS 4.4 Product roadmapping: Roadmapping is one of Pendo’s less popular but valuable features. Book a demo today to learn more about how it works.

Analytic Tools

The Product Guy

MARCH 5, 2025

In our latest Patreon-exclusive article , part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , we explore: The most common mistakes PMs make in stakeholder alignment. This is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collectionavailable exclusively on The Product Way Patreon. How to use the 5 Whys technique to uncover the real root cause.

Roadmap

AB Tasty

JULY 3, 2025

Given today’s fast-changing environment, Lukas believes that roadmaps should be treated as flexible guides rather than rigid plans: “I think roadmaps aren’t necessarily bad, but they should acknowledge the fact that there is uncertainty. Remember the first three syllables of personalization,” he says.

User Testing

Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2025

Even small acknowledgments like you asked, we delivered build trust and show users that their input shapes your roadmap. Book a demo to see how you can drive meaningful engagement from day one. Act on user feedback and communicate the changes when they go live. Try Userpilot to Boost Growth and Increase Your App Users!

Feedback Software

UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This dynamic can play out on any scalefrom a minor UX improvement to a roadmap-level epic discussion. Renowned conductor Itay Talgam, in his book The Ignorant Maestro (3), calls these gaps of ignorance. If youre a lone product design generalist, keep track of user experience topics that may soon become relevant on the roadmap.

Technical Advisors

The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

Roadmap Updates: No Surprises Teams should never be blindsided by product decisions. Regular product roadmap updatestailored to different audienceskeep everyone aligned and prevent last-minute escalations. One-on-one check-ins with key stakeholders before roadmap update sessions help eliminate surprises. Why does it matter?

Data Visualization

NextBigWhat

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The book opens with a story from 1999 when venture capitalist John Doerr invested $12 million in a small startup with big dreams but no concrete business plan. This book teaches readers how to gather the right data to track progress. It offers a roadmap for aiming high, moving fast, and achieving more as a team.

Startups

UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

As Kim Goodwin highlights in her excellent book Designing for the Digital Age , “Exploratory research focuses on understanding the problem space, rather than jumping directly into creating solutions.” Keep focus on Users’ intent and goals always. When identifying patterns, best to ask, ‘ What is the user trying to accomplish here?’

Data Visualization

Userpilot

JULY 24, 2025

Collecting feedback to inform our roadmap. See How – Book a Demo Most companies love to brag about their acquisition numbers. They become advocates, share your product on social, speak at your events, and even shape your roadmap through customer feedback. Did they just book a demo? Stop guessing and start guiding.

Analytic Tools

The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Your manager wants a roadmap update, engineering has questions about priorities, and stakeholders are asking about timelines. Lets build a roadmap that sets you apart as a product manager who delivers results, inspires confidence, and aligns teams. Imagine this: Its your first day as a product manager at a new company.

Onboarding KPIs

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

You will work closely with Meta product and engineering teams to deliver on Meta’s product roadmap. PM looking for a by-the-book product manager role. You should have experience working in a changing environment while designing and implementing new processes. Who would be the best fit for this job?

Analytic Tools

The Product Guy

APRIL 3, 2025

Youve aligned the roadmap. Read it now on The Product Way Patreon : [link] Exclusive Access to Mastery This post is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , a premium series on The Product Way Patreon. Youve got the stakeholders in the room. But still things stall. Because alignment isnt enough.

Leadership