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Building a Multi-Dimensional Roadmap

The Product Coalition

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. These are the exact questions you need to ask when creating your roadmap. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap.

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Strategic Debt Is the Silent Killer of Startups

The Product Coalition

With everything you have to do every day, it is so easy to neglect strategy. But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. There is so much work to do, you don’t even have time to create a roadmap. Slowly, both the product and the roadmap reflect only what the customers are asking for.

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Why Tools Are Not the Answer

The Product Coalition

This is what I tell the founders that consult with me  — that to really solve the problem that they are looking to solve, a tool is not enough. The Product Manager’s Job Is to Think That’s what makes the role so great, and so hard. Tools alone cannot be the answer. Here are a few reasons why. Tools cannot change any of that.

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3 Creative Levels in Your Product Career

The Product Coalition

Even when I created a strategic roadmap, it refined the already existing product and extended it, but it didn’t create a whole new thing. Most product people start at this level. In your first product role, you are most likely to work on an existing product and on relatively small changes.

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From Product Management Back to Strategy

The Product Coalition

My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. Before we dive deeper into this I want to remind you again how I define the word product. As a product leader, you can no longer only own the tangible product, although that’s most likely where you feel more comfortable.

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Leadership in Product, Connect and Explore Workshop Series.

Bain Public

About Bain Public: Bain Public is a Product consultancy that helps companies make smart decisions, and ship top-notch products that innovate and achieve business objectives. The 3 steps to product innovation. The 12 lessons will cover the tactics, strategies and mindsets that underpin the 3 steps thinking.

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Product Strategy Iterations

The Product Coalition

A solid product strategy takes time to build. Here is the method I use for creating a product strategy that makes sense. When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation.