Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 2, 2023

A process for improving product roadmapping using Objectives and Key Results – for product managers. Today we are talking about roadmaps. Some product people love roadmaps, while a lot hate them. Our guest has had good experience creating roadmaps from objectives and key results (OKRs), and he is going to tell us how.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it. Smaller strategy updates and product roadmapping decisions, however, are not as critical. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

In our latest Productside webinar, Becoming an Effective Product Management Leader , Principal Consultants Roger Snyder and Kenny Kranseler delivered a no-nonsense roadmap for new leaders who want to nail their first 90 days (and beyond) and get the tools on how to become a product management leadereffectively. The principle stays the same.

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ProductBoard

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Think of a product roadmap as the compass for your product—it charts the course, highlights the key milestones, and keeps everyone focused on the ultimate destination.

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Productside

MARCH 4, 2025

In this thought-provoking episode, youll gain: Insider insights on AI-driven advertising and how it impacts businesses Practical advice on developing leadership skills in product management Strategies for balancing customer needs with data-driven decision-making A roadmap for upskilling and future-proofing your product career Nehas journey from data (..)

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Productside

MAY 15, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Writing Effective Product Requirements to Drive Outcomes Most product managers dont set out to write bad requirements. And theyre juggling context, roadmaps, and Jira ticketsjust trying to keep up. Theyre under pressure to deliver. Theyre surrounded by requests. So what happens?

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Productside

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Because product teams often focus on outputsfeatures, roadmaps, and backlog itemsrather than outcomesthe real business impact and customer value those features should create. The post Great Outcome Statements: Move from Outputs to Outcomes appeared first on Productside | Product Management Courses & Training.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 4, 2025

Your team is following the roadmap. Roadmaps provide alignment. But heres the problem: The world doesnt care about your roadmap. Teams are trained to treat roadmaps as gospel, OKRs as strategic truth, and customers as the ultimate source of insight. You shipped everything on the roadmap, but customers werent delighted.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Market Analysis Before and With AI Customers are clamoring for a number of improvements to your product and youre on a mission to get them funded and on the roadmap. AI has no idea which sales deals are hinging on your roadmap. AI doesnt know if anything on your proposed roadmap will open up new markets, etc.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

I find, however, that a product goal is best used to describe a specific and measurable benefit or outcome a product should create in the course of the next two to six months. You don’t have to work with compound product goals of course, if you prefer to focus your objectives on either the user or the business benefits.

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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

Technology Roadmap Figure out the dev stack, the product backlog tools (Jira vs. Aha?), The Product Ops Power Move Most big M&A sprees result in Frankenstein processesdifferent roadmaps, templates, product lifecycles, all living under one corporate roof. She standardized everythingno more 14 different ways to build a roadmap.

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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Breaking the Silos: How Product and Engineering Build Better Together In Season 3 of Productside Stories , we sat down with Guy Gershoni , Head of Engineering at genesIT, for a candid conversation on what it really takes to build great products in todays complex tech environments.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 6, 2025

These interactions weren’t just about immediate product needs – they focused on building long-term partnerships and ensuring customers saw value in the product vision and roadmap. Kimberly has also led sales, partner programs, managed services and customer success over the course of her career.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

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. Of course, it would have been ideal to find someone who had had both extensive experience and amazing learning abilities, but there’s a reason unicorns are so rare.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I believe the main culprits are Mr. Roadmap and Mr. Backlog. Culprit #1: Mr. Roadmap. How should we balance technical debt vs our feature roadmap? Prioritization methods are based upon the notion of Value, but given the sort of questions people struggle with, it clearly is ill-defined for many. Why is that?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

The GO Product Roadmap is the template I have developed to capture an outcome-based roadmap. Once it’s created, it is executed, often over the course of several years. My Strategy Stack , shown in Figure 6, explains the connections between the product strategy and the business, product portfolio, and technology strategies.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

It forced me to question a belief, as a product leader, I treated as an absolute — that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Of course.”, Then I thought further; maybe scenarios exist where roadmaps are optional. Roadmaps are not always needed. he asked.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Unconventional Skills That Simplify B2B Product Management Today, Product Management University announced free training courses for product managers. Who Are the Courses For? What’s Unique About Product Management University Courses? What Courses Are Offered for Free? There are six eLearning courses offered for free.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2021

And just like I encourage trios to share their discovery context before they share their roadmaps and backlogs, I’ll do the same here, before I talk about my plans for the year ahead. That led to the launch of the Product Talk Academy and our first course, Continuous Interviewing. I have three more Deep Dive courses in the works.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

But instead of telling a clear, compelling story, they send out a spec or share a roadmap deckand hope it gets read. Enroll in our AI Product Management course to master AI-driven strategy, uncover the right use cases, and lead cross-functional teams as you scale smarter with the power of automation and intelligent tools.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

I like to take this idea further, derive several product goals from the product strategy for the next 12 months, and capture them on a product roadmap. If you have a product roadmap, then ensure that it implements the overall product strategy. Do not add too much detail to your product roadmap , though, to keep it a high-level plan.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Talk to any of the product managers, and one of the main problems they will share how difficult it is to create an achievable product roadmap. I have mentioned “achievable” in the title because, most of the time, the product team comes up with a roadmap only to realize that it’s not achievable. This could happen for multiple reasons.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

To prevent your product backlog from becoming a wish list, follow these two tips: First, select a product goal and align your product with a strategic plan like a product roadmap (as I discuss below). Prioritisation, of course, requires deciding how important an item is. Product Roadmap, Product Backlog, and Product Goal.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

Now there are more and more resources, like blogs, books, online courses and even training programs for Product Management. Are reading articles, taking online courses, watching videos and participating training program enough to make one a good product manager?

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Think of your roadmaps, backlogs and sprints as a very specific set of turn-by-turn directions. For the most part, your teams can execute those directions very well. There’s only one problem, and it’s a big one. Where are you supposed to end up? What’s the destination? How will you know when you’ve arrived? Is it OK to just keep on driving?

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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.” We went away from detailed, long-term, feature-committed roadmaps. I explained this many times.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Of course.”, Then I thought further; maybe complete scenarios exist where roadmaps aren’t needed. Fast forward to the end, there are in fact scenarios where companies and products do not need roadmaps. he asked.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, ensure that the individual’s role and responsibilities are clear; help the person grow as a product professional, be it by coaching and mentoring them or by encouraging them to attend training courses; offer clear and helpful feedback and hold them accountable for meeting agreed goals. Second, develop the product management team.

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Product Management University

MARCH 5, 2025

Product Management Every feature, every roadmap decision, every investmenttied directly to user jobs that, when improved, create measurable benefits for the customer. No fluff, no filler, just impact. Don’t start with products, start with user jobs that most need improvement and product priority decisions will be a lot easier.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Address Pain Points Proactively: Regularly ask for feedback to show you value their input and are ready to adjust course. Connect Decisions to Customer Needs: Show how your roadmap addresses customer pain points to build trust. Present a high-level roadmap by your 90-day mark to demonstrate strategic planning.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

A pivot is a “structured course correction designed to test a new fundamental hypothesis about the product, strategy, and engine of growth.” Do you have a Product Roadmap? As a product manager the management of your product roadmap is the same as the management of yourself and your career. ” [1.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

It’s not a roadmap. Melissa Perri’s Product Strategy Episode: [link] Melissa shares tips to recognize what a winning strategy looks like and gives practical tips on how to course-correct. It’s not a set of goals. It’s not a vision. Seven questions that product strategy aims to answer: What problem are we solving?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Of course, there is drama too! Like that soccer team, products can fall apart when the team doesn’t work together toward a common goal following a roadmap. Soccer is a perfect parallel for product management and roadmap development. The Essential Players in Roadmap Creation: Who should be involved? Outcome definition.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 21, 2019

Of course, some customers might not be satisfied by the products offered on the traditional menu or catalog so product managers need to cater to these customers by offering a secret product menu. A product manager manages the product roadmap/product lifecycle. What is a secret menu?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 5, 2022

You might achieve this by mentoring and coaching the individuals as well as recommending suitable training courses. Don’t forget to capture the learning and development measure, for example, on a learning roadmap. This includes acquiring new skills and deepening existing ones —depending on the specific role the person plays.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Don’t make the mistake to cover the Scrum Master’s work over an extended period, as this will either cause you to neglect some of your core responsibilities or sacrifice your health —neither of which is desirable, of course. A great way to resolve any performance issues is to address them in the sprint retrospective.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Product marketing roadmaps aren’t a staple in most B2B organizations, but there are a host of reasons they should be. What is a Product Marketing Roadmap? The execution part of the product marketing roadmap consists of the action items and artifacts required to generate demand and support the sales process.

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