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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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Bain Public has agreed to collaborate with the new Quebec program to propel scaleups on the world stage by providing workshops and peer to peer coaching to develop the management teams of these companies to think slow, act fast, and build roadmaps, brick by tiny brick.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

As the person in charge of the product, you lack transactional power : You cannot tell the stakeholders what to do, you cannot assign tasks to the individuals, and you are typically not in a position to offer a bonus, pay raise, or other incentives. Ask the Scrum Master to help you build a stakeholder community.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. When reviewing a roadmap with the product team, there are six points I always look for.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2022

Let’s rewind a moment to set the stage for an effective customer feedback strategy, before looking at some specific, practical tactics for actioning customer insights into your long-term product roadmap. After all, if a salesperson is making promises your roadmap doesn’t back up, that’s a recipe for disaster down the road.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

Rule 2: Communicate Product Strategy and Roadmap Every organization and product leader handles the communication of product strategy and roadmap differently. We walked them through our vision, product roadmap, customer value, business value, and KPIs. Aligning early allows us to influence their roadmap and avoid surprises.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 3, 2019

Product roadmaps are one of the best-known tools and also the most misused by product managers. We have talked twice before with Bruce McCarthy, co-author of the book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty , to learn how to make roadmaps work for us instead of against us.

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Ronke PM

MAY 8, 2024

Culture-driven product leaders construct, foster, nurture, and encourage diverse, inclusive, innovative, and people-centric cultures by molding and developing an environment with a sense of responsibility and purpose. These leaders succinctly demonstrate where their product aims to go and what it hopes to achieve in the short and long term.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 29, 2024

Innovation Culture Failure is understood Managers establish objectives Innovation is considered in recruitment External communication is used Innovation and risk-taking are valued Constructive conflict is encouraged Internal communication is effective [12:32] 2. 21:53] What are some key metrics for tracking product management performance?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2017

But bear in mind that negative thoughts and emotions cloud your perception; they will make it difficult to have a constructive conversation with Jane. Additionally, bring to mind the positive qualities of the difficult person. Offer a helping hand and make constructive suggestions for resolving the issue. If so, then that’s ok.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Drew Forward is the Team Lead, Solution Design at PCL Construction, Ltd. where he oversees the development of internally developed applications to help execute construction projects and occasionally acts as an additional senior product manager. Let’s meet them first before we dive into their experience with Miro.

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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. In other words, you are not their boss. At the same time, you depend on the individuals. Finally, agree on shared goals or outcomes.

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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. In other words, you are not their boss. At the same time, you depend on the individuals. Finally, agree on shared goals or outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2021

You get vague feedback on why you didn’t get the promotion, or unclear guidance on what you can do to position yourself for the next one. They lead their teams, building excitement on a product vision, roadmap, and features. Fostering growth in your team and creating a positive team culture requires thought and intention.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Here at Apptentive, we’ve carefully tested this language and flow with our customers to help ensure their strongest fans provide positive feedback in the app stores, and their toughest critics come directly to them with constructive criticism. Rather, identify a “point of positive experience” within your app to display your prompt.

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

You’re now in a great position to tell everyone what you’re going to do, why, and how it’s going to benefit them and the customers. Their feedback is welcome and will be far more constructive at this point because you’ve completely changed the complexion of the conversation from products to customer value.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

So, your boss’s boss walks into your office and changes your roadmap…. The only real solution was to rebuild everything from scratch; requiring phasing out the old platform and creating a new one and managing multiple products and roadmaps. No, this is not a bad joke. As a product manager you prep, plan and execute.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

While I really appreciate this entrepreneurial aspect of our work, it can bring up tension, stress, and frustration when we are trying to progress our products towards agreed goals but are in danger of missing them, be it a sprint goal , product goal on the roadmap , or a strategic user or business goal. Becoming Aware of Difficult Emotions.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

While I really appreciate this entrepreneurial aspect of our work, it can bring up tension, stress, and frustration when we are trying to progress our products towards agreed goals but are in danger of missing them, be it a sprint goal , product goal on the roadmap , or a strategic user or business goal. Becoming Aware of Difficult Emotions.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

This will help your PM’s understand the way they should position themselves within the company. This includes outlining their responsibilities, defining what success looks like, and providing them with a roadmap for achieving their goals. It’s a very positive shift, for feedback is essential for growth and development.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 7, 2024

Highlight the value you can bring in a new position and why it’s essential for the company’s success. Feedback should be constructive, clear, and focused on behaviors and performance, not personal attributes. ” Prioritize tasks you loved and allocate more time to them.

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Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

Roadmap Planning process Unlike Consumer products, you have two different types of audience to satisfy in Enterprise world, namely Buyer and User Persona. It’s very important to have a very clear definition of these persona constructs to the most precise form. We should be dynamic to readjust roadmap to meet its goals.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Here, you will have to supplement your initial market research with additional context that will help you to optimize how you position your product in its respective market. This is your opportunity to prove why a potential recruiter should hire you for the position.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Work on New Product Development Projects A lead product manager needs to have a solid foundation in product management and the product development process, which means that they must know well about product roadmap development and product strategy definition. Enhance Your Leadership Skills Product lead is a senior leadership position.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

So the potential impact you can have on the business— either positive or negative?—?increase Within Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS), PMs are responsible for their individual product areas. The roadmap is just a list of things you say you’ll be working on. increase commensurately. A lot of PMs skip the strategic framework.

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Userpilot

JULY 26, 2022

You can collect qualitative data through feedback surveys, NPS surveys , in-app surveys, heatmaps, session recordings, customer reviews, public roadmaps, and exit surveys. It also leaves some customer statements open to interpretation, especially those that are poorly worded or constructed. Looking to collect and analyze feedback?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

This curiosity has led me out of product management and into my first B2B sales position with ProdPad, where I’ve been tasked with building a repeatable, scalable, and successful sales process, and ultimately a larger sales team. We’ve written about this in our blog Sales Teams Close More Deals When You Give Them The Product Roadmap.)

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Bain Public

JULY 12, 2021

It's a bottom-up process; you attempt to solve a problem with the team, get a signal early and use it to construct the bigger picture. UX costs: This is for testing to see if users respond positively to machine learning (i.e. By knowing your training dataset cold, you set the vision and direction of the product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 30, 2020

Neither is a great position to be in. You co-create with the team, involve them in decision making, strategy, defining the roadmap, etc. The difference is that the tension becomes much more constructive?—?it suddenly no one has any clue what they were working on. Because you want to cultivate a sense of ownership?—?to

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

Product managers are often called in late in the selling cycle to address specific customer demands/requests or to position our product against competitors. Roadmaps are shared. We’re often asked to “position” an upcoming feature, or avoid mentioning a product shortcoming. Demos are shown. Unscripted Q&As happen.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

The most obvious way to be output-oriented is to give your teams a roadmap that lists features and release dates and ask them to deliver against that roadmap. The product team is closest to the customer and the technology and is in the best position to assess what’s feasible and desirable. It needs to be a collaborative effort.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development ! Roadmap Development is a process of discovery, creativity and problem-solving. The most successful businesses use roadmaps to chart their long-term development initiatives, which showcases better results than the companies that don’t!

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UserVoice

JULY 31, 2017

First off, it’s in our nature to say yes – humans are eager to please, seeking positive confirmation from those we respect. And, as the person who decides what’s in and what’s out of a product release or roadmap, a product manager is often the one who must say “no.”. Saying no is a true art.

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Bain Public

MARCH 30, 2020

You must learn to do so in a way that is strategic and constructive without completely shutting down the other person. Product managers can provide transparency on vision, strategy, roadmap, backlog, value and cost. You can even walk your colleagues through your methodology for prioritizing by showing them a visual product roadmap.

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Userpilot

JUNE 7, 2022

Being product-centric means your SaaS company gets to focus on building the best products and features, creating a powerful brand positioning, and improving customer loyalty. Here are a few tips on how to shift from a product-centric to a customer-centric approach: Have a public roadmap that welcomes feedback.

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