Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2019

At this year’s MTP Engage conference in Hamburg I had the pleasure to introduce my personal product management idol Marty Cagan to our audience. You can’t hold the team accountable if YOU give them the roadmap. He spoke about one of his favourite topics: empowered teams. And that’s what Marty left us with.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In Part 3 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, you can see an overview of the remaining insights from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum (if you missed them, you can take a look back at Part 1 and Part 2). Inspiring visions and strategies are particularly important when giving people a purpose.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

Chances are you already know their broad responsibility is to develop and implement a marketing strategy roadmap for a specific product. Product managers are responsible for the overall vision and strategic oversight of a product. They work with stakeholders to define features, build a product roadmap, and collaborate with the team.

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Ronke PM

JUNE 21, 2023

Quarterly Product Planning Monthly Product roadmap review with engineering and design lead. This means that there are specific discussions that we must lead and participate in because they significantly impact our products and the vision we want to set. Monthly Product roadmap review with engineering and design lead.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

For this reason, it’s the perfect time to align those with the product vision by conducting an annual planning session. Annual planning and the product roadmap. Annual planning determines where we want the product and how we intend to get there, which typically results in a high-level product roadmap.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Todd Lombardo, Co-Author of Roadmaps Relaunched.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 7, 2023

have the weighty challenge of bringing these diverse PMs together to form a cohesive team with a unified vision and aligned goals. What separates the average product leader from the superstars who energize their teams and provide the right leadership, support, and space to enable teams to create and steer products to successful outcomes?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

And there is, of course, the company all-hands meeting where leadership shares future direction and celebrates past achievements. It’s rare to go to a conference or a social gathering and find that the event organizers have given serious thought to how guests will connect and get something meaningful from the event. Be ready to adapt.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

After reading a blog or a book or attending a conference or talk on product management, I’m always excited to try out the new processes and frameworks I’ve learned about. Aside from generating revenue, it’s also important to check if the solution aligns with the business’s direction, vision, and values.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

Whether it’s staying on the same page as the development team during a sprint or creating buy-in on the product strategy and roadmap, these solutions streamline communication, minimize confusion, and provide centralized repositories for crucial information. Moreover, they strengthen work relationships and facilitate alignment.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Clarity around the product vision, market opportunity, end-to-end story, how to win, value to the user, metrics, objectives, and how the product contributes value to the organization. I walked excitedly into my potential client’s conference room, but no one was talking. creating clarity. the first signs of a chill on its way.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

You set procedures, create the product roadmap, and focus on the work that brings everything together. Strategic Thinking is vital for defining product vision. Leadership Skills. You might be accountable to give client demos, webinars, and presentations at conferences. Product Managers are the ones who build the future.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

Lea was responsible for the product vision and strategy of the Creative Cloud, transforming Adobe from boxed software to one of the most successful SaaS services in the industry. Scott is a bestselling author and popular speaker on creativity, philosophy, leadership and culture. Scott Berkun, Author. So what are you waiting for?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2022

Whether it’s staying on the same page as the development team during a sprint or creating buy-in on the product strategy and roadmap, these solutions streamline communication, minimize confusion, and provide centralized repositories for crucial information. Moreover, they strengthen work relationships and facilitate alignment.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 7, 2019

How many of you think product roadmaps are helpful? One of my favorite models is the “ GLE e model” which helps to craft a product vision. Here’s how I present the model, using Netflix as an example: Netflix Product Vision. Eventually, you’ll progress to big conferences. “Imagine you’re…”. “Do

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 22, 2020

At the Amplify 2020 conference—the largest (virtual) gathering of product and growth leaders in the world—Amplitude’s EVP of Product Sandhya Hegde moderated the panel “Growth in a Pandemic” with three companies that have seen massive growth in 2020: Shipt, Shopify, and Imperfect Foods. For Shopify merchants, the pandemic’s impact was huge.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

We’ve already highlighted the Top 10 Product Talks from across our conferences and meetups, but not everyone wants to get up on stage to share, so now it’s time to look at the top 10 guest posts here on mindtheproduct.com. How bad Ideas get on the Roadmap. Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

It was transformational for me because I had been working on smaller seed products, and for the first time I was in a leadership role on a major transformational project. [3:07] A marketer or market research department can do it, or you can do it yourself by writing some surveys in a survey tool or interviewing people at a conference.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Join us for an interactive online Q&A on 11th March 2021 with Bruce McCarthy (Founder of Product Culture and Author of Product Roadmaps Relaunched ). “In Bruce’s latest best seller, Product Roadmapping Relaunched is one of our top recommended books for every product leader. Can I submit a question in advance?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Tip: If you are looking to improve your PM soft skills, read these articles: How to get respect from your development team (as a Product Manager) How to sell your vision as a Product Manager #1 Coursera Coursera is the world’s largest platform for online courses. Every platform offers a variety of product management courses.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2017

Lea was responsible for the product vision and strategy of the Creative Cloud, transforming Adobe from boxed software to one of the most successful SaaS services in the industry. Scott is a bestselling author and popular speaker on creativity, philosophy, leadership and culture. Scott Berkun Author. So what are you waiting for?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 19, 2021

It’s easy to develop tunnel vision in any product role. To make sure their products meet the needs of their target personas, product managers confer with their companies’ sales, marketing, and customer success teams. They must also present their product roadmaps to executives , investors, and other decision-makers. Creativity.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

As promised, here are the slides from my talk at Impact Product Management Conference 2018 event in Budapest, Hungary. In some organizations, the strategy/decision making (roadmap) happens without product management. Talk in term of their interests, let them feel that the idea is theirs and use it to firm up your roadmap.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2019

You should have already figured out the business case of items on the roadmap, so don’t be afraid of sharing that perspective with your technical team. If you have properly communicated your vision and provided context into the “why” behind decisions, your work is done. Be present and available. Ask questions.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Combined with what we learned from writing Product Leadership the patterns are becoming increasingly obvious: Product teams around the world are all encountering the same handful of problems. It’s not a better conference calling solution or another task management app (no more project management tools, please!).

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

9 Dear Product Roadmap, I’m Breaking Up with You. He discusses the top roadmap challenges according to product managers and then helps you understand what you can do to overcome them. #10 You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership. Jon Lax presented at a Design & Content Conference in Vancouver, B.C.,

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2020

When we think of corporate leadership, we instantly picture CEOs and executive teams, but the role played by boards is often glossed over and underappreciated. Leadership during the COVID crisis. Use this time to figure out how you can best live out your mission, your vision. ” Don’t just be in lockdown mode.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Books, podcasts, blogs, meetups, and conferences give you more input than you could ever consume, and I recommend sampling a variety to see what resonates with you, and then being selective with your information diet. Product vision, strategy, goal setting User experience. But in many cases, you’ll have to look outside.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. Teresa: One of the things I think I’ve written in the past is if your backlog or your roadmap or your idea log—whatever you’re going to call it—isn’t changing based on what you’re learning in discovery , there’s a disconnect there. What’s the vision? Do some tech debt.’

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Maintaining a prioritized backlog that aligns with available Engineering capacity and maps to an overall solution roadmap. Secondly, become an advocate for the product team to senior leadership.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In Part 2 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, we take a look at yet more insights shared by a group of senior product leaders during #mtpcon 2019 (if you missed Part 1, take a look here). No Vision = no Intentional Culture. Your vision and its supporting culture shouldn’t be generic. It shouldn’t be for everyone.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

This is especially true for companies where product didn’t have its own independent seat at the executive conference table. In the product-led organization of 2023, product teams are gaining authority over previously independent teams and even some historically in a leadership role over product.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Share Leadership and Credit. Share leadership and allow others to present results and demo to executives (Image: Shutterstock). Another way I’ve found to be useful to share leadership and credit is with OKRs. With this system, more people get to take on leadership roles and everyone gets recognition for their work.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2020

Our Director of Engineering Jordan Neill spoke with CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar , who took the reins at Stack Overflow in October 2019, about his vision for the community of builders he says are helping to write the script of the future. You talked about publishing a roadmap.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Maintaining a prioritized backlog that aligns with available Engineering capacity and maps to an overall solution roadmap. Secondly, become an advocate for the product team to senior leadership.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Excellent leadership skills, a fundamental understanding of product management, and a strong portfolio of success are the recipe for success. At times, it also shows your potential for a product leadership role. Over time, potential product directors need to show an ability to lead the entire product team.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

As these skills form a large set, I like to divide them into three sub groups: strategic, tactical, and leadership capabilities, as the picture below shows. Strategic skills include the ability to develop an effective product strategy , actionable roadmap , and working business model. Use your own product (a.k.a.

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