Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2019

Usable – you can’t build features with no cohesive vision that need layers of solution consultants to walk every new customer through them. If your product team isn’t taking roadmap input from your sales team, you’re not listening to the potential market. Solving customer problems. You need to differentiate.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

that’s not me, I always talk to leadership about my plans and their buy-in is crucial to anything I do as a product manager. Leadership are the ones who can make or break your initiatives internally, they have power. And so we inform them, consult them, involve them. Is this on the roadmap? So what can you do?

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

But this is an article about your CEO’s duty to set a vision, to define why your company exists. For some product managers, the thought of talking openly about the void left by a missing vision statement is paralyzing. Without it you can't be vision-driven. You assumed there was a vision. When in fact there wasn’t.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. This is our framework that we base all our lessons on: Your Product Mission Your Product Blueprint Your Roadmap Pillars. Course Outline.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Product management and leadership From the struggle to balance innovation and market fit to maintaining a customer-centric approach to product development and navigating talks with business partners, product leaders face many challenges. Product management and leadership speakers. leadership to uphold your customer-centric focus.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Let’s dive in!

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

So I did what every well-trained consultant knows to do — I asked a question. A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. Product managers must articulate what success looks like for a product and rally a team to turn that vision into a reality. Are you in yet?

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

Embracing a growth mindset, communicating a product vision and strategy and striving for early-market success are all steps toward growth and prosperity. If they trust your expertise and knowledge, they are more inclined to buy-in to your product vision. There can be no momentum without proper and solid leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 8, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

They already own a vision, a revenue number, a team to inspire and coach, day-to-day execution, and every last individual customer. These other teams sometimes have the skills to be true thought partners and business consultants, taking that pressure off of CS leadership. CS leadership time spent on reporting.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Here are the 3 roles Product Managers must perform to achieve roadmap leadership: The Diplomat It’s not our role to dictate through authority where the product should go. We hold quarterly high-level prioritization meetings to help the company’s leadership define the roadmap priorities. We owe it to the leadership.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

In our experience leadership tends to “Want them all, equally. Align the initiative with measurable business outcomes and define a clear transformation roadmap. Any organizational change must have leadership support along the entire journey or it will be short-lived or fail outright. And NOW” Sorry. Roll Out Strategy.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 22, 2023

Whether that product is a software application, a physical doo-dad of some kind, or a service like consulting or transportation, or warehousing, every company provides some value to customers in exchange for compensation. The existing product leadership and team may or may not have the correct skill set.

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Demand for Product Management thought leadership is still growing. Originally published on ProductCoalition.com What Goes Into a Good Product Roadmap? Use this 6 Week Process to Generate Your Product Roadmap. A Guide to Narrowing your Focus. Can’t prioritize? Originally published on Product Management Insider.

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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. First, we needed to create an aspirational vision and alignment coming into 2021. We include a fireside chat with our leadership team and breakouts for each discipline. Leave room for fun.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

At Bain Public, we have learned a lot in the many hours and conversations spent mentoring, advising and consulting in product management. Founders or C-suite executives assume that the vision described in a business plan, pitch deck or through a patented prototype, will ensure competitive success. Developing a Strategy.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. She’s currently a consultant, speaker, and teacher in product management. How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. CEO of Product Labs. Author of “The Build Trap”. How to create a scalable product organization.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Michael explores how to do product management the best in terms of product strategy and vision, product development frameworks, customer research, and startups. Bain Public offers consistent roadmap planning processes and tools for business leaders and product managers; we are organized around what motivates, inspires and improves growth.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. They determine the vision and build a roadmap that will lead their team on a path to achieving goals. In fact, 83.9% Did you know 16.2%

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

A product manager’s responsibilities include evaluating ideas, setting product strategy, building and sharing product roadmaps, prioritizing features and documenting requirements, defining product releases, and analyzing and reporting on progress. Product leadership style. Building and sharing strategic roadmaps.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Not only that: giving back requires active involvement and implementing solutions in response to product leadership challenges and Canadian startup ecosystem expectations. As a business, we want to achieve success in ways that honour our ethical values as well as respect startups and accelerator communities.

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Bain Public

JULY 13, 2020

Since meeting at Techstars Montréal AI Accelerator in 2019, we’ve worked with Blaise Transit to provide them with the product leadership consulting, coaching, advice and support they need to bring their entire technical roadmap to the next level. Growth and Innovation During the COVID-19 Crisis.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It all starts with a commitment from leadership that strategic thinking and planning are worth the time and makes it a core tenet of the team’s approach. Management consulting firms hire 20-something-year-olds to help with corporate strategy. The vision remains the focus at all times, so it never requires any “extra effort.”.

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Bain Public

JUNE 3, 2018

Without a process for roadmap reinforcement, it just won’t stick. With it and backed with strong strategy and leadership I helped develop roadmaps that aligned influential individuals and companies. Week 6, Roadmap prioritization. Over the years, as a Product Manager, I established an effective product management process.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs. Learn More.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 21, 2020

By partnering with Notman House, we set a lofty goal to undertake pro bono advisory work, bringing the ideas of product leadership, product strategy and product development processes to resident startups. To put it simply, we define and refine product roadmaps and their strategies. Why Pro Bono? We did so because it’s good business.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

12 months) that choices are meaningful and actionable Lends itself to OKRs or metrics Not just an airy 5-year vision with all things for all people.    IMHO, sorting backlogs and setting roadmaps based only on multi-column spreadsheets or cost of delay or WSJF is fundamentally flawed.  Short-enough time frame (e.g.

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Pitfalls of Service-Led vs Product-Focused startups I have been on both sides of the spectrum and it has worked well for companies like Infosys, TCS which take on large service agreements with organizations and provide consulting services or develop software. I am sure you all know the differences between the product vs service company.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 15, 2020

What the CEO needs to do is shift their focus toward building the product leadership team, empowering the product manager to think strategically and focus on features that map and complement a ‘high level’ strategic baseline they set for the product. Product Mission : Once you’ve determined your BHAG and UVP, how do you create a roadmap ?

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While most of your roadmap initiatives support one tactic or another, each functional group will call out for new initiatives that match other objectives and they’ll want the entire development effort in the upcoming release. Or should they offer transitory leadership support through coaching? So take their advice and execute on it!

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2018

I wrote notes on one side of each page, and kept track of my to-dos on the other, and I would religiously consult this list every morning. Improved Leadership. Naturally there are big decisions that a product manager should always own, like the product vision and roadmap. Better Perspective.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

Also roadmap flexibility. The roadmap changes more often in SaaS, meaning more communication with stakeholders. Both the customer success team and the product management team need to be aligned on the product vision. Sue Raisty , previously Product Management Consultant and CEO at Sure Product Consulting. #3

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Her job is to not only create and maintain a product roadmap according to business ROI but also to lead the product release plans. As part of her role at Livescale, she defines product vision, roadmaps and growth opportunities as well as researches and analyzes the market.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 14, 2021

With a clear growth strategy for the US market, Senior Product Manager, Nathan Mackinnon, and his leadership team have recognised the necessity for a well-established Product team to achieve its business goals. Two years ago, we brought on a senior consultant, John Milburn, who actually worked for Pragmatic Institute.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about. To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] Let’s take a look at them.

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