Productside

MARCH 4, 2025

Stepping into product leadership means balancing strategic vision, customer focus, and emerging tech. In this episode of Productside Stories, Neha Bansal , Head of Product at Meta Ads Manager Reporting, joins Nicole Tieche to discuss her career, the high-speed role of AI in advertising, and how PMs can stay ahead of industry shifts.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Some view it as the product vision , others equate it to the product’s value proposition. 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. Product Goals and the Product Roadmap. Figure 2: Sample 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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Melissa Perri

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Product Roadmaps, in general, are confusing. Three years ago I wrote a blog post about Rethinking the Product Roadmap , in which I advocated for a focus on solving customer problems instead of listing out features with deadlines. But first, let’s talk about Roadmaps in general, and how they got us on the wrong track to begin with.

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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

From surfacing hidden landmines during due diligence to bringing entire product orgs under one cohesive vision, Brians got the battle scarsand the winsto prove it. Technology Roadmap Figure out the dev stack, the product backlog tools (Jira vs. Aha?), She standardized everythingno more 14 different ways to build a roadmap.

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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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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? Is this thing you’re asking with our mission, vision, value proposition? Why is that? Chock-full of Themes, Epics, Releases and Features. Progress bars and Milestones. .

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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. Everyones Pulling in a Different Direction When theres no shared vision, product, engineering, and business teams fill in the blanks differently. When people see the vision, they align faster. It aligns quickly.

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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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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap.

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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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Mind the Product

MAY 22, 2017

Can’t get your boss to part ways with a time-based feature roadmap? I wonder what it is about feature roadmaps that is comforting to the C-suite. For bosses, I think there’s a perceived risk in moving from a safe and predictable feature roadmap to an experiment-based lean product roadmap. Then sell them on the risk.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

How to Develop Product Roadmap? To lay out and document your strategy, you need to develop a Product Roadmap. Product Roadmap?—?What What Product Roadmap is a guiding strategic document?—? Facebook 10 Year Roadmap It maps out a high-level visual summary of the product vision and direction. Chapter 12/17?—?How

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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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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2020

I’m going to talk about three areas where I have learned the importance of this and how it has helped me over the course of being a mentee in this program, and how it had a big impact on making progress on my personal OKR of being a more well-rounded product manager. Development Team: Setting the rules and boundaries of communication .

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

A tool like my product vision board helps you capture and validate your product strategy. 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.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

In product management you’re schooled to, identify who your customers are; identify a value proposition strategy and to persuade stakeholders of the vision you want to achieve. A pivot is a “structured course correction designed to test a new fundamental hypothesis about the product, strategy, and engine of growth.”

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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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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? However, I don’t necessarily agree with the idea that its user feedback “versus” the founder’s vision.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

Vision and strategygoals A vision statement should answer the following question: Where are we heading and why? Bad vision statements To be the best eCommerce platform in theworld. Although money is a key part of the business, a vision should inspire and provide long-term direction, not just focus on money.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing.

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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. What exactly is product strategy?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ? To ensure you’re adding the right features and initiatives to your product roadmap, I’ve outlined several suggestions here. Start with the product vision.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. While you are not responsible for the team performance, you should, of course, care about the development teams you work with and offer helpful feedback and guidance.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 21, 2023

Portfolio Vision Portfolio CEO, the first and most important thing you’re going to do, just like the CEO of a company, is establish a “north star” vision for the portfolio. The important thing here is that each product vision supports the portfolio vision. Here’s the great thing about this vision structure.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. Look at leadership as an integral part of your job that is at least as important as updating the product roadmap and refining the product backlog. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. Look at leadership as an integral part of your job that is at least as important as updating the product roadmap and refining the product backlog. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

It’ll describe some points divided as follows: Setting the product vision Getting people onboard (stakeholder management) to make it happen How to talk with other areas to get to this vision Why is setting a Product Vision important? Alice Product Manager”- Without Product Vision, any direction will be taken.

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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 is in stark contrast to the Scrum product owner who exercises full-stack product ownership , from vision to the tactics, as the following picture shows.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

It’s not a roadmap. It’s not a vision. 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. Seven questions that product strategy aims to answer: What problem are we solving?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The importance of measuring the small outcomes associated with their product goals or visions is the key to churn expected benefits throughout the product life cycle. In summary, this framework gives an opportunity to discover, experiment, build, measure, learn and sell the product for outcomes aligned with the product vision.

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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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Product Management University

MARCH 16, 2023

It is a list of tasks to be completed, items to be added, and features to be implemented as part of the product roadmap. The product backlog further distills the roadmap into smaller chunks of work in order of development priority. Once the product roadmap is established, move on to creating your product backlog.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. Reinvention requires a product vision : a visual artifact that sets product direction over a longer term time horizon. Product vision is the critical bridge between strategy and execution. Unlock planning Facilitate multi-quarter roadmapping and resourcing.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Identify needs that are not yet met and use this to inform your product roadmap. Get validation of your priorities by asking members how they feel about your roadmap and it’s prioritization. Align your vision and product strategy with the strategic direction of your customers business. Get permission first of course.

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