Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Reassess Your Product Roadmap. Compare these needs with the items on your product roadmap. The post A Step-by-Step Guide to Constructing a Persona Workshop appeared first on Mind the Product. For example, when your team is comparing two designs, ask questions like “Will [Eric] prefer to use it in A way or B way?”

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap. The most amazing product strategy and the best product roadmap are worthless if the stakeholders don’t support them. Ask the Scrum Master to help you build a stakeholder community.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If you’re facing the need to revisit and revamp your customer experience, our discussion with Mai Elizer, Senior Solutions Engineer at Comeet , offered invaluable insights into constructing a predictable and efficient customer journey. Realized Value and Future Roadmap The tangible benefits of Comeet’s revamped customer journey are evident.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. While salary increase is a complex subject with variables outside of our control, I believe that having a clear product roadmap and strategy is every Product Manager’s responsibility. Research article.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 26, 2018

Shifting focus from the how to the why by properly using a product roadmap. The same applies to a frequent tool product managers use — the product roadmap. The traditional use of a roadmap nearly guarantees that product managers will get damaged in some way, like mishandling a belt sander. How to organize a roadmap.

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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. Think of moments when you saw Jane help others, make a constructive contribution, or commit other acts of kindness. Are you disappointed, upset, or angry? If so, then that’s ok.

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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Third, product goals help you connect the product roadmap and the product backlog , assuming that you use a goal-oriented plan like my GO product roadmap. Choose the next outcome on the roadmap as your product goal and copy it into the product backlog. Will any of them impact the product roadmap and require an update?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I’ve had some requests from listeners to explore product roadmaps, so I had a discussion with Jim Semick. He is co-founder of ProductPlan , which creates roadmap software for product teams. The best practices for constructing product roadmaps. Summary of questions discussed: What is the purpose of a roadmap?

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Identify needs that are not yet met and use this to inform your product roadmap. Get validation of your priorities by asking members how they feel about your roadmap and it’s prioritization. Welcome opposition : Encourage constructive criticism. Get early feedback on UX efforts and how they attempt to solve customer needs.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

This includes showing the dev team how agile processes can be applied and suggesting specific techniques, facilitating meetings, and teaching people how to constructively deal with conflicts. In other words, the Scrum Master is responsible for helping the team do a good job.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

So either we work together to understand your objectives, call them goals if you’d like, and the outcome you are looking for from the product, or we will end the discussion, and you won’t get a committed set of work on the roadmap.” That’s how budgets were constructed up until this year. So, what is an outcome-oriented roadmap?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Communication: Be able to effectively practise active listening and offer honest but constructive feedback to help people meet agreed goals. For example, to set product-related goals you might choose to use my goal-setting framework and my strategy and roadmap templates.

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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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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Additionally, increase your ability to constructively deal with disagreements and learn to resolve conflicts so that nobody is left feeling frustrated or hurt. The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Additionally, increase your ability to constructively deal with disagreements and learn to resolve conflicts so that nobody is left feeling frustrated or hurt. The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As product managers take on more responsibility and become product leaders, you’ll need to know how to construct and manage a portfolio and the best approach is Dynamic Portfolio Management. Dynamic portfolio management addresses those things with a roadmap. 23:13] What does a portfolio roadmap look like?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 6, 2018

To keep the discussion aligned with the product, which might not even exist at that point, I start from the features on the roadmap and regroup them by the area of the problem they address, rather than chronologically. Instead, the component parts of the “why” are the touchstones that help construct a narrative framework.

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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. Management should primarily focus their feedback on the discovery roadmap, not the delivery backlog. But there are more insidious ways to be output-oriented.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2021

If you have an idea, and your intent is to explain it and its constructs, this is a beautiful way to do it. Pick and chose three minimum, four maximum most important constructs of your idea that you would like your audience to know. Every idea goes through the cycle of Conceive, Construct, Convince and Create.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 27, 2020

For many mobile product managers, their biggest goal is to create a realistic product roadmap and hit key milestones on time. Learning how to pivot quickly and adjust roadmaps is one of the most important skills a mobile PM can have. Customer behaviors and preferences are shifting daily – as are their 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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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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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

And do you agree on what a product vision , strategy , roadmap , and backlog are, for example, and how these plans should be captured? How skilled are they in constructively resolving conflicts and collaborative decision-making ? Do common product discovery and strategy practices exist? What are performance evaluations based on?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

And do you agree on what a product vision , strategy , roadmap , and backlog are, for example, and how these plans should be captured? How skilled are they in constructively resolving conflicts and collaborative decision-making ? Do common product discovery and strategy practices exist? What are performance evaluations based on?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

By not making it a priority to ask for, listen to, and implement customer feedback in a constructive manner, companies are missing a huge opportunity to closely align their business with their customers’ wants, needs, and expectations —while still keeping their product roadmap aligned with business goals. . I don’t have budget (29%).

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 31, 2022

Every piece of feedback should be treated as guidance for the company direction to make sure the voice of the customer is front and center throughout the product roadmap. And they’ll go out there and farm their customers to inform what’s ultimately going to happen on the product roadmap.”.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

Additionally, you may want to ask the team to help refine product backlog items or update the product roadmap , for instance. [2]. Therefore, don’t turn it into a product backlog or roadmapping workshop. Similarly, if you require the help of the team to work on the product roadmap, then hold a separate workshop.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 20, 2019

How do you inform your product roadmap? Before making any major changes or adding anything drastic to your product roadmap, make sure the survey responses are statistically significant. Reach out separately and close the loop with people who gave constructive feedback. Steps to Take Before an App Update.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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. Developing a product roadmap and setting realistic product goals/outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2023

The result was a very clear definition of success for the product and also a roadmap to measure progress. Minnesota Innovation” Goal and Questions And here is a GQM version of “Improve company website”*: “Improve Company Website” Goal and Questions Each of these questions should be constructed to accommodate a numeric or Yes/No value.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

22:15] How are product roadmaps constructed at UserVoice? A roadmap is a terse summary of the current manifestation of the product strategy that will support our business goals. The roadmap we produce is a list of things we decide to bet on from a list of things we researched.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 25, 2019

This also gives us the chance to identify the nature of the problem that is causing the customer to consider leaving and either add it to our roadmap or see if there’s an immediate resolution available – quite often, we find that there are existing features that actually can solve their problem immediately and reduce or eliminate the need to churn.

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