Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    Product management malpractice.  

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2019

What Product Roadmaps Are (in a Nutshell). To start with, let’s briefly recap what a product roadmap is. I view a roadmap as a high-level plan that states specific benefits a product should provide over a certain timeframe, which may range from six to 12 months. Ensure the Roadmap is Realistic.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

roadmaps?” If you haven’t gathered from my past posts on product topics, I’ve worked with ‘interesting yet easily annoyed’ colleagues many times. Executing a product roadmap requires more. It involves significant orchestration well beyond the boundaries of the product. Changes that you must reflect in the roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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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.

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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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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Essential Questions That Lead To A Great Product Roadmap “The question ‘Why?’ The roadmap for a new digital product designed to support a high-risk population suffering tremendously from the burden of disease. I ran through the roadmap for the product, fielding all the questions and handling them like a pro.

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Gocious Blog

MAY 23, 2023

You've got a big job—keeping products on track, making presentations, updating data, maintaining company goals and product strategies, and so on. The best product roadmaps help minimize errors and streamline product development. It can quickly become difficult to stay organized.

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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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Mind the Product

AUGUST 31, 2018

Do you ever feel like breaking up with your roadmap? Todd Lombardo takes on a topic that is emotional to most of us as product managers – the product roadmap. In modern product management, we have multiple frameworks and tools designed to help us understand what to build. What a Roadmap Isn’t.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Fueled by product insights and strategy, the work exceeded every key metric. Written by Michael Agombar Many times, we see a client’s data collection methods to be lacking, in which case we create analytic tracking plans. However, data insights don’t get us all the way. When we jump into analytics, we have a few goals.

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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. These are the exact questions you need to ask when creating your roadmap. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 19, 2019

It’s not just that “business as usual” gets in the way, changes to an organisation’s executive groups and tweaks to the company vision can lead to disconnects between strategy and tactics. Nicholas used the word “brutal” to describe these disconnects – which should also resonate with product people.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2023

This post will focus on the last example, product roadmaps. Why does roadmap inconsistency matter? What are the problems that arise from having inconsistent roadmaps, starting with the most consequential? What are the problems that arise from having inconsistent roadmaps, starting with the most consequential?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 22, 2023

Several successful product managers swear by data-driven product management. Here’s a look at data-driven product management and how you can use data to guide your product management efforts in a way that solves customer problems and leads to product growth.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 13, 2022

In Part 1 , I said that customers need a different kind of roadmap than teams do. But, depending on where your product is in the market, your customers might want or need different information. One thing to remember: you might not need a customer-facing roadmap at all if you release often enough. Let's start there.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

” Solution-centric data : “We’re making great progress; we’ve implemented 50 more user stories, and velocity is up by eight points!” ” Sadly, the data above is not helpful to see clearly how much value the product is creating. 2 Wrong Product KPIs. This often leads to too much data being gathered.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 10, 2019

But when it comes to product development and the roadmaps that guide that process, you’re often hard pressed to see the desired outcomes represented. Instead, we often see roadmaps that are chock-full of features and enhancements that don’t mean much in isolation. The problem with feature-driven roadmaps.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Make sure that the relevant data is available prior to the meeting.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2016

In the chart above, the vertical axis captures the remaining effort in the product backlog required to create the next release, and the horizontal axis captures the number of sprints necessary or available to develop the release. What is a Product Roadmap? Product roadmaps vary in their format.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is Product Roadmap?

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Product Warrior

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This is the introduction to my 10-part series to help you execute and continuously improve your product strategy. After explaining to board members we could not acquire the Internet, I quickly learned to execute product strategy fast. Using the Product VCP I align stakeholders, underpin decisions and empower teams.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

However, they are intended to guide and protect- to guide and protect the future of the product and the company. I’ve been a product leader for over a decade. I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. Why share now?

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 10, 2017

By Garima Painuly- One of the constant challenges a product manager faces is creating a focused product roadmap that is aligned with expectations of all stakeholders, and defending that roadmap against distractions. The discussion topics were inspired by a blog post from Fresh Tilled Soil on Building a Product Roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

that products always require roadmaps. My mentor and I started in our usual spot, talking start-ups, and new products in the healthcare industry. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Then I thought further; maybe complete scenarios exist where roadmaps aren’t needed. An hour flew by.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Using KPIs and collecting the relevant data helps you balance intuition with empirical evidence. This increases the chances of making the right decisions and achieving product success. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Think of driving a car.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 21, 2024

Calling busy product professionals! We get it–your days are packed with roadmap review meetings, brainstorming sessions, and making (what sometimes feels like) too many PowerPoint presentations. Despite some significant challenges, 2024 is the year of product It’s official, 2024 is shaping up to be the year of product.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Fortunately, there was enough data available on the student population and the market to be able to determine which combinations were the most significant. Collect the Data. Next, we cobbled together data from a variety of sources and populated the conversion funnel. These were, why does the company exist (i.e.

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Amplitude

MARCH 26, 2020

At Amplitude we help teams make the shift from data snacking to a balanced, healthy, everyday data diet. What is data snacking? Picture a product manager hacking together some SQL for a one-off report. She’s rushing to get a pitch together and she’s sure her strategy is the right strategy. Run the query!

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2022

To harness PX insights within your product, you must pay attention to these three components –feedback, analysis, and engagement data. The process involves creating a data-driven customer journey , tracking feature adoption levels, and taking action based on user feedback. What are product experience insights? Engagement.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

By revamping their product strategy, companies can lower the cost of customer acquisition with low-touch onboarding strategies and also increase revenue retention with stickier products, helping to unlock new ways to scale up and sustainably grow revenues. Make space for quick wins to drive advocacy.

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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. As product managers, we instinctively know that planning things out in advance is impossible, because our work depends on a constant stream of testing, data and feedback.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Furthermore, soft skills like product sense, communication, creativity, and being the glue that enables a team to operate at their very best will become even more important (and a differentiator among companies). Taking gigabytes of data, analyzing it, and giving succinct and (increasingly) insightful answers. Please tell me!

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Output-Based Planning. You can align on direction.

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Userpilot

JUNE 6, 2023

Product data analytics and product management are inseparable. Instead of relying on their hunches and anecdotal evidence, product teams should leverage data to make informed decisions. Our ultimate guide to product data analytics explores: The most relevant metrics teams should track.

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ProductPlan

MAY 5, 2022

Whenever you build or update a product roadmap, you’ll need to weigh the costs and benefits of several competing goals. Creating a higher-priced version of the product. Cleaning up technical debt or fixing product defects. Effective product roadmaps include user feedback as a key factor in deciding which goals to pursue.

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