The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

How first principles can help you design product roadmaps from the ground up. Product roadmaps are no exception. Creating or even updating a product roadmap can feel like being handed a blank sheet of paper and told you have 60 minutes to write a ten-page college essay on a topic you didn’t study for….

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Courses | Hiring | Swag Subscribe now Annual subscribers get a free year of Perplexity Pro, Notion, Superhuman, Linear, and Granola , along with access to the entire 5-year back catalog and a thriving members-only Slack community. So we teamed up to make that happen.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 6, 2025

The path from IC to Chief Product Officer isn’t just about gaining more responsibility it’s about transforming how you think about product development, team leadership, and business strategy. The company wanted to expand into commercial markets, particularly retail – a perfect fit for Kim’s background.

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Productside

MAY 20, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Why AI Product Management Certification Matters More Than Ever Lets be realAI is no longer a buzzword on the product roadmap. Theyre the ones getting promoted, pulled into strategy conversations, and trusted to lead. Explore the course. Its not about learning a tool.

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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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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

With the right strategies, you can hit the ground running, build trust, and leverage your expertise to thrive in your new role. Address Pain Points Proactively: Regularly ask for feedback to show you value their input and are ready to adjust course. Present a high-level roadmap by your 90-day mark to demonstrate strategic planning.

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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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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? Well, th at’s the role of a product strategy. My favorite definitions of strategy are the simplest I’ve found. A simple representation for our product strategy.

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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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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates. Timeboxed Strategizing.

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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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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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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. What’s more, I like to ensure that product goals are connected to the product strategy and its user and business goals. Product Goals and the Product Roadmap.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 22, 2021

Product adoption is a key piece of any successful customer acquisition strategy or onboarding program. Understanding how, when, and why (or why not) customers become power users or high-value customers can drive ROI, inform future product roadmap decisions, and lower customer acquisition costs (CAC). So, what is product adoption?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. 6:52] Did you find a gap in the roadmapping tools that were available before you started Gocious? It’s evolving so fast.

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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. Its a strategy for getting things done. PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer. Dean said it best: If your idea isnt seen, it isnt understood.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

To mitigate the risk of adding the wrong items to the product backlog, ensure that you have a validated product strategy in place, no matter if you look after a brand-new or as an existing product. Additionally, you should be confident that your strategy is correct, and you should have data to support your view.

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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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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

Scaling a product isnt just about selling moreits about refining product-market fit, unlocking the right growth levers, and making sure your go-to-market strategy actually aligns with what your customers need. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls, build strong GTM alignment, and refine your product strategy for sustainable success.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Product leader Aatir Abdul Rauf outlines questions product managers should ask when crafting a product strategy. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Product strategy continues to be a misunderstood concept and energizes many conversations and debates on LinkedIn. It’s not a roadmap. It’s not a set of goals.

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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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UX Planet

APRIL 17, 2025

This article is your roadmap to understanding how these two concepts dont just coexist but thrive together, amplifying both user satisfaction and your bottomline. A seamless UX keeps customers coming back, and effective CRO strategies ensure that more of those visitors convert into actual sales. On the flip side, we have CRO.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 4, 2019

We’ve got to keep a pulse on a diverse set of inputs, filtering signals amidst the noise, to build strategic direction and seemingly mid-flight, make calculated tradeoffs for the product roadmap. Sales and marketing teams are one of the most valuable sources of inputs into the roadmap. Put the tools to use. Relationships are key.

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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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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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Roman Pichler

JULY 5, 2022

To make the duties more accessible, I have grouped them into four sets: people management, processes and tools, business strategy and organisational development, and self-leadership. You might achieve this by mentoring and coaching the individuals as well as recommending suitable training courses. Contribute to the business strategy.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A product like Microsoft Word is, of course, likely to be too big to be managed by a single individual: It requires several product people to collaborate. This includes describing their functionality, interacting with development teams, participating in product discovery and strategy work, and helping evaluate feedback and data.

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Product Management University

MARCH 5, 2025

Portfolio Strategy Forget every product team working in their own little silo. A portfolio strategy starts with the customers top business priorities, and then every product becomes a lever for delivering value that actually moves the needle for them. No fluff, no filler, just impact. Otherwise, FAHGETTABOUDIT!

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Productside

MAY 29, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training How Product Operations Helps Teams Move Faster (Without Burnout) Growth is great. You end up with: Multiple roadmaps but no shared priorities PMs stepping on each others toes Dashboards galore, but zero signal Before long, youve built what we call a meeting maze. More products.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Strategy and Change Strategy means different things to different people, so let me briefly share my definition. A product strategy describes the approach chosen to make a product successful. Such a strategy facilitates effective product discovery and product delivery.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Step 1: Take Advantage of the Product’s User and Business Goals.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now Last week’s guest post about tactics for becoming a “super IC” is on track to being my most popular post of all time, so I’m thrilled to bring you a follow-up that’s designed specifically for managers.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Consequently, a platform should have its own product strategy and roadmap , KPIs , product backlog , and well-designed software architecture that leverages the right technologies. Like with other products, regularly review the performance of the platform and make the necessary changes to its strategy and roadmap.

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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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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum.

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