Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

That's one of the reasons they create huge backlogs and long roadmaps. Yet, even those backlogs and roadmaps don't offer certainty. However, I don't do long consulting contracts—by design. But most of my business focuses on coaching, workshops, or consulting. Remember I said I don't take long consulting engagements?

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It helps that Sales and Marketing figured this out long ago. Who else can interpret strategy from Product, Marketing, and elsewhere into the CS team’s role? These other teams sometimes have the skills to be true thought partners and business consultants, taking that pressure off of CS leadership. Your VP of CS?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 21, 2023

 A VP Product or CPO job search typically takes 3-6 months, and the current hiring market isn’t typical.  Plan If they’re not in the market right now, they should be happy to send recruiters your way.  Part-time, consulting or side gigs are OK while you're looking for a full-time thing.  Short-term

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2017

Therein lies the opportunity for a product management consultant. Consulting on a part-time and freelance basis may be a viable option for you, depending on where you are in your career. Even if you’re only thinking about it as a temporary move, it’s important to think about the goals you may have as a consultant.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The opposite is also true: I’ve seen product people who were excellent at product management, had amazing market insights and great product ideas, but underachieved, as they lacked the right leadership skills. 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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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During the in person workshop, Paul will lead a group of early stage startup founders through the process of revisiting and assembling their value proposition, establishing their product mission and strategies, and completing their product roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. Nico joined me on Inside Intercom this week, where we discussed everything from the three stages of company growth to how growing companies can address new markets.

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Actuation Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

When you begin developing your product roadmap, you start to envision how your product strategy will actually be accomplished. The form your roadmap takes is largely dependent upon the expectations of your organization. The form your roadmap takes is largely dependent upon the expectations of your organization.

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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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Under 10 Consulting

MAY 15, 2020

Your roadmap is a plan, not a commitment . "We We allocate 100% of our resources to the roadmap. We plan to use the other 100% of our resources for special projects." — Johnson's Roadmapping Conundrum. ?. But here’s the rub: A roadmap is not a task list or project plan. That’s not a roadmap; that’s a release plan. ?.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In due course, the startups need to invest a good amount of time in organizing the strategy and roadmap to track the product performance to get an early product-market fit and scalability. Business outcomes: It represents the intent of goals and strategies and important attributes to evolve the enterprise/product roadmap.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a consultant, I create many kinds of information products: both writing and speaking. The image to the left, from Successful Independent Consulting , shows the interaction between my writing and speaking. That feedback arises from my writing, speaking, and consulting. You, as I, might discover new markets and new products.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2019

Marketable – be attractive enough to differentiate itself from competitors. Adoptable – have sufficient table-stakes requirements for features such that the majority of the market can adopt it. However, a great product is more than something that “the market accepts”. Solving customer problems. Idea popularized by Ken Norton.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

They work with typical product management software and also manage the product roadmap as well as the product team. The idea is to bring the business value of the software product based on a well-designed product roadmap that takes all the software companies’ strategic goals into account.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

He is perhaps most recognized for his influential work as a consultant, writer, and speaker on product management, particularly within the realm of software and technology companies. Marty Cagan is the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG), a consultancy firm that helps companies build successful products.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. But it is greatly diminished when folks are betting on unrealistic results.

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Bain Public

APRIL 28, 2020

As today’s uncertain market rapidly changes, remaining successful requires a more entrepreneurial product-orientation. Faced with breakneck business and product growth, roadmap decisions need to be non-bureaucratic, yet remain collaborative at the same time. Using Market Sensing and Knowledge Creation. But how does this happen?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

To grow our customer base and market share? So I did what every well-trained consultant knows to do — I asked a question. By providing a more ethical alternative in the smartphone market, Fairphone embodies a strong purpose: to drive change in the industry and show that a more sustainable, fair approach is possible and viable.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2023

Many product managers are on a mission to improve the lives of their consumers, and principal product consultant, Rachel Wynn feels that as product managers, we need to think twice about taking customer feedback at face value. It’s challenging.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

So they do all sorts of validations and deep analysis processes: market research, business plan, competitive analysis, and so on. Everyone knows market feedback is a must so that’s where you are going —  working with your customers, listening to them , and implementing a lot of what they say. And guess what? You hope it’s enough.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When a company hires a fancy management consulting firm to help them “optimize” operations, one of the first things they’ll do is document how things are currently being done. It’s useful in the product development context many of us live and breathe every day, including product roadmapping. Gap analysis.

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Hutwork

MAY 23, 2019

Product roadmap planning has become a huge success in getting products to market efficiently. Often companies find themselves asking, why roadmap? This brings us to our top 12 reasons for product roadmap planning and why it’s essential. Today’s market is dynamic, ever-changing and oftentimes unpredictable.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 30, 2020

” We’ve also chatted with many service providers – think agencies, business process outsourcers, systems integrators, and consultancies – who are keen to help their clients use Intercom to connect with their customers. As a partner, you’ll be the first to hear about co-marketing opportunities, best practices, and areas for feedback.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 17, 2020

We’d welcome the opportunity to be your partner in 2021 to become more customer outcome focused in how you build, market, sell and deploy your solutions. Why Storytelling Skills For Product Management & Product Marketing Are Essential for Success. Enjoy the B2B Product Manager December issue. View the magazine. In This Issue.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Product Drive is Userpilot’s FREE online event where experts from top companies come to share growth and marketing insights. Product Drive is Userpilot’s FREE online event where experts from top companies come to share growth and marketing insights. The event is for anyone responsible for driving growth for their product.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They are all based on real stories of product leaders I work with as a consultant or in the CPO Bootcamp , and I’m sure you’ll find them as real as they are. A Roadmap Without a Strategy It’s this time of the year again, and everybody needs to plan their roadmaps. Like anything else in roadmaps, this too might change over time.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

He works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management, and human-centred design. He is a published O’Reilly Media author with two titles: Design Sprint (2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (2017). Product Leadership.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

When a company is first starting out, one of its main goals is to find the right product-market fit. Many brands think they are engaging their customers, but what they are really doing is flooding their customers’ inboxes and social media with pre-canned marketing messages. and actively engaging their customers to find that fit.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 25, 2018

Typically, this is the plight of a team that isn't dialed into its market. Your organization may not be market driven. Pragmatic Training can help your team become market driven. Review these seven key steps to see if you may need to re-evaluate your market driven approach: 1. If not, no worries.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 25, 2018

Typically, this is the plight of a team that isn't dialed into its market. Your organization may not be market driven. Pragmatic Training can help your team become market driven. Review these seven key steps to see if you may need to re-evaluate your market driven approach: 1. If not, no worries.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. Digital transformation helps businesses automate processes, improve efficiency, and innovate faster, allowing them to outmaneuver competitors and capture market share. Seek expert guidance from consultants or technology providers.

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Product Management University

MARCH 18, 2019

Make sure those products and solutions can be delivered, marketed and sold in a manner that supports [our_company_name] strategic goals and financial targets. Performs basic vertical and horizontal market segmentation for a portfolio of products that serves common markets and customers. Product Management Responsibilities.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

And so we inform them, consult them, involve them. think sales (engineers), account managers, customer success, product marketing. The ones who sell the product over and over again, the ones who handle escalations or talk about the roadmap to the customers. They’ll be less enthusiastic and convinced in their roadmap talks.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Cybercriminals are everywhere, testing your defenses, and devising new ways to steal data, hold it for ransom, or sell it on the black market. Making the case for cybersecurity on your roadmap. It should be a standard part of your pitch, particularly in the B2B, B2E, and B2G markets. Making Room for Cybersecurity on the Roadmap.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework. He’s now a consultant, speaker and writer. Part of the role of a product manager is to discover and help build products that have a high market impact. Three Types of Launch. These are very rare.

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