Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Many teams, like sales and marketing, have time-bound goals, like reaching $X in bookings or generating Y leads by a specific date. Product teams are also held to time-bound goals. Question: How do you respond to requests for date-based roadmaps? First, I’d like to address some of the shortcomings of date-based roadmaps.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 19, 2023

Are product roadmaps sales tools? Think of a product roadmap as a sales pitch for your product. Thinking of your roadmap this way is helpful when you want to get support from stakeholders and gauge interest from customers — important people who care about your product’s future. Absolutely! Build excitement.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

What is product experience? Product experience refers to the customer journey that takes place within the product itself, from a person’s first login to their last time using the application. It is a broader, more end-to-end view of user experience, which refers to specific interactions a person has within a product.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

Golden rules for roadmap management. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’. Even the best entrepreneurs give in to impress investors at times.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 7, 2022

This vision holds true with our own organization as well. It is a very meta experience to build the ProductPlan platform as a go-to central hub for everything product management-related. As we help our customers overcome challenges, we’re using the same product we deliver to customers to overcome our own challenges.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. They lack vision and lead nowhere. A roadmap example.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. What is the vision for the future you want to create? What ground has been covered?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

You’ve got a clear vision for the future, and it looks bright! Part one of this article taught you how to align a roadmap with aspirational business goals. This step gets into what people think of when they ask for a roadmap. This step may be the biggest challenge to a realistic roadmap. What are you going to work on?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2021

Aligning on three things before diving into a solution can help ensure teams spend the right amount of time and energy solving every problem. What outcome does the customer want? . A well-crafted problem statement ensures the team shares an understanding of the core problem your customers are facing. Why do they want it? .

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. So as he leaned across the table and looked me in the eyes, he demanded, “Explain why I need a product roadmap.” Why not, indeed?

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Looking to deliver a better digital product experience? Creating outstanding product experiences is essential for boosting user engagement , enhancing core feature adoption, and improving overall retention. This article provides a step-by-step process to elevate your product experience from “good enough” to “superb”.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2021

Built to help brands connect with their customers in more meaningful ways, Typeform is an interactive survey platform with a vision to create a world of more personal business relationships. Focused on realizing that vision by empowering and supporting their customers is Christine Werner, Typeform’s Senior Director of Customer Success.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

At Intercom, we’ve reinvented different parts of our product many times over the years – most recently, our Messenger. This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. And, when products are in this phase, users can feel it: it’s the slow, clunky, dated experience you get when using previous-generation tech.

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bpma ProductHub

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

For our recent book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty (O’Reilly), my co-authors C. Matt Poepsel’s product roadmap for The Predictive Index always includes a column for what was delivered in the prior quarter to help stakeholders see progress toward his product vision. Transparency.

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Product Management University

MARCH 16, 2023

In order to make your great idea come to life, you eventually have to prioritize development tasks by collaborating with target customers, stakeholders and other team members. It is a list of tasks to be completed, items to be added, and features to be implemented as part of the product roadmap. How will user success be measured?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 16, 2023

Without retaining users , you’re throwing away money and resources spent acquiring customers that’s why having a retention playbook is helpful. A user retention playbook will keep your customers happy and continue using your product for longer. Monitor user satisfaction by regularly conducting in-app surveys.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s Product Roadmap Building Time Again! The end of 2020 is nearing and it’s product roadmap building time again?—?at To make that process as worthwhile as possible, adhering to the following seven product roadmap first principles has proven beneficial in my experience.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

There is no point in worrying about the product details and writing user stories if a sound product strategy is missing. How does it differ from a product roadmap and how do the two plans relate? And what’s their relationship to the product vision and the product backlog? But what exactly is a product strategy?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Level two increases empowerment by adding the authority to determine the features and user experience the product should offer. At the same time, I believe that it is important to look at things the way they are. Before I discuss the three levels in more detail, let me briefly explain why I wrote this article.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Customer feedback can be a goldmine of valuable insights for SaaS companies seeking growth. TL;DR Meagan Glenn, Senior Program Manager (Success and Product) at Lavender, shares valuable insights on leveraging customer feedback in an interview with Userpilot. Customer feedback should come in daily from various sources.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

I like to think of the product strategy as a high-level plan that helps you realise your vision and that answers the following four questions: Who is the product for? Who are the users and, if appropriate, who are the customers? To capture the product strategy, you can use my product vision board.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

Kris Gale As a wise man once said, no roadmap survives contact with reality. Firefighting while staying on course on the strategy and commitments of the roadmap is difficult. Like a forest never cleaned, filled with leaves, debris, and branches catches fire quickly, managing a roadmap left to rot is challenging.

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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2023

How Product Roadmaps Bridge the Gap and Fuel Success. “A A product roadmap is a tool for communication and alignment. Central to this journey is the product roadmap. The why is what unites not just the team, but the whole company, around a shared vision. The Journey of a Product: The Roadmap Queue the time travel music.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

I’ve been talking with product managers lately about how the concepts of “essentialism” can help them focus their efforts on what matters. 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 ?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

When that’s the case, a product is usually progressed based on the features requested by the users and stakeholders. This can result in a Frankenstein product, a product that has a horrible value proposition and offers an awful user experience instead of creating real value for the users and the business.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.” — Jeff Bezos Ever question the value of a product development lifecycle? Queue the time travel music…. roadmaps?” If you haven’t gathered from my past posts on product topics, I’ve worked with ‘interesting yet easily annoyed’ colleagues many times.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. What about 3?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Roadmaps vs backlogs: What’s the real difference and why does everyone keeps using these terms interchangeably when they mean different things? TLDR Understanding the difference between a product roadmap and a backlog is crucial for product managers. Everyone knows the difference between a roadmap and a backlog… right?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As a product manager, one of the toughest challenges I and my fellow PMs face is prioritizing the right features amongst an ever-increasing influx of data from customer feedback, product analytics, and the never-ending list of stakeholder requests. A successful product never sacrifices the user experience.

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ProductPlan

MAY 5, 2022

Your product team has limited time and resources, and you can’t accomplish every initiative on your product development wish list. Whenever you build or update a product roadmap, you’ll need to weigh the costs and benefits of several competing goals. Common examples include: Targeting new user personas. Listen to your users.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. Such a strategy helps the team put themselves in the shoes of the users, better understand their needs and pain points , and make the user experience consistently good at all stages of the user journey.

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Sachin Rekhi

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Video: Annual Planning and the Art of Roadmapping with Sachin Rekhi It's that time of year that product managers find themselves engrossed in annual planning. In the talk, I share this actionable process for putting together a more strategic, aspirational, and well articulated roadmap for your product. Learn more here.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 20, 2020

Product Vision or Product Vision Statement is the long-term goal for a product includes the long-term mission and the motivation behind its creation, along with why it’s important. Product visions, ultimately, serve as the guideposts for the development of the products. What is a Product Vision?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 17, 2020

Much has been written over the last few years on the idea of the featureless roadmap , which challenges product teams to present their plans grounded more in strategic vision – or by themes – rather than a laundry list of specific features. How to Decide on Roadmap Themes that Produce Meaningful Outcomes.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Additional areas include: Background or knowledge in Agile methodology Business skills Data analysis Market research skills Problem-solving Product roadmap development Solid communication skills Strategic thinking To get you started, check out our PMHQ Technical Product Manager Courses. This can be challenging for new graduates.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 11, 2024

It’s about deeply understanding customer needs, prioritizing the right features and initiatives, and ensuring that the team is working on the most impactful things. Actions to Overcome: Clearly communicate the product strategy and roadmap, highlighting how each initiative ties back to key customer needs and business goals.

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