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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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But with multiple products and new urgent bugs and features to manage daily, it can be hard to focus on an organization’s bigger vision. And organizations have visions and goals for products as well. Yet because product roadmaps are living, breathing documents that can and should evolve, it can be frustrating to construct them.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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? At the heart of the model in figure 1 are four artefacts: the product vision, the product strategy, the product roadmap, and the product backlog.

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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. The roadmap gets a lot of blame for this culture. What a Roadmap Isn’t. A roadmap can be many things. A roadmap is not a release plan.

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Product Culture

JANUARY 31, 2024

So you have created the most beautiful roadmap ever. Start with why: Be sure everyone is on board with the product vision before you move on to details. Touch on the long term: Mention possible future work, to show the story arc and help explain the vision. See Chapter 9 of my book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched.

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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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Gainsight

JUNE 16, 2022

If you’re crafting a product roadmap, your vision and internal alignment must be crystal clear. . Too often, product leaders start building their roadmap plans only to be bombarded with conflicting feedback in all directions. So, how do you get beyond the distractions to build a roadmap you can defend and align around?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

What is a Digital Transformation Roadmap? Above all, product teams can use a digital transformation roadmap to summarize the plan and goals for any move from a manual process to a digital one. Replacing your on-prem servers for storing corporate data with a cloud-based data management and backup solution.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Vital to delivering successful products at Clickatell , an effective product roadmap can quell the confusion and missteps that often derail well-meaning product delivery organizations. Roadmaps provide the required context to understand how individual initiatives combine to meet strategic objectives.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

A handy tool to capture your answers and describe the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in the picture below. You can download the template by clicking on the image and you can find more advice on how to use it in the article The Product Vision Board. Carry out the necessary work and collect the relevant data.

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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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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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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Sangita Sarkar , Zynga’s director of product marketing, recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. By doing so, PMMs can represent the consumer's needs and interests at the table and influence the overall vision for the product.’’

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Sangita Sarkar , Zynga’s director of product marketing, recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. By doing so, PMMs can represent the consumer's needs and interests at the table and influence the overall vision for the product.’’

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In his book “Start with Why” , Simon Sinek boldly claims that the ‘Why’ behind your actions matters more than the ‘What’ This principle isn’t limited to leadership or personal motivation; it extends to every facet of the business, including product roadmaps. So how to create and present roadmaps effectively?

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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. This often leads to too much data being gathered. 2 Wrong Product KPIs.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Instead, I believe that AI will have the most profound impact on the high-level (and historically most valued) skills of product management: developing a strategy, crafting a vision, identifying new opportunities, and setting goals. Taking gigabytes of data, analyzing it, and giving succinct and (increasingly) insightful answers.

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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. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” 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. Tell me your perspective.”,

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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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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Here’s why it’s important: Defines a product vision and aligns strategy with organization goals. Champions a customer-centric approach.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. Data becomes a strategic asset In the digital age, data is power. Share data on how digital transformation can lead to increased efficiency (e.g., Regulators: Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and data privacy laws.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Tech PMs work actively with product teams on the product vision and strategy. A big part of their job is managing the roadmap and prioritizing technical initiatives in the product backlog. This vision outlines what the product should achieve and its long-term goals. Product vision. Product roadmap.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 21, 2024

We get it–your days are packed with roadmap review meetings, brainstorming sessions, and making (what sometimes feels like) too many PowerPoint presentations. This is just a glimpse of the data-backed enlightenment from our 2024 State of Product Management Report. Calling busy product professionals!

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As a product manager, you must have the ability to create a business-viable product vision. Not only that, but this vision needs to drive and influence others to execute and deliver the components needed to build out that vision and make it a reality. But how do you get there?

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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. Using KPIs and collecting the relevant data helps you balance intuition with empirical evidence. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs.

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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. Effective product roadmaps include user feedback as a key factor in deciding which goals to pursue. Where to Find User Feedback for Your Product Roadmap. Common examples include: Targeting new user personas.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

UX vision is a clear and inspiring statement that guides the long-term design strategy and keeps teams and stakeholders on the same page. The plan, often depicted in a UX roadmap, outlines the work necessary to achieve the goals. Include the desired outcomes in the roadmap along with who will realize them and roughly when.

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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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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Learning and growing are antagonistic by nature, which is why many companies face the roadmap dilemma. Ways that the Roadmap Dilemma Presents Itself. In learning mode, you do things that don’t scale , as you need to be on the field collecting data, meeting users one to-one and so on. Deconstructing the Roadmap Dilemma.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

Are you looking for some kind of inspiration for your first Product Roadmap (PR)? And wondering how to create a professional product Roadmap ? Are you planning to implement good practices in your product roadmap to get sustained growth? It helps you to design a successful Product Roadmap. Categories of Product Roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. 2 Involve the Right People. State objective and agenda.

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ProductPlan

MAY 11, 2020

Proof Over Opinion: 8 Strategies for Selling a Roadmap to a Skeptic. Here you are up to your eyeballs, creating a killer product strategy and roadmap. A roadmap skeptic poses a two-fold dilemma for a product manager (PM): you have to keep product development moving forward while figuring out how to sell your roadmap to the skeptic.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 4, 2019

Additionally, you should be able to correctly state the information captured by the product vision and strategy , product roadmap , KPIs , and business model on the map above. Balanced Product Scorecard for the KPIs (possibly using Dave McClure’s pirate metrics ).

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Extensive market research is essential to assess the competitive landscape, identify opportunities, and shape the product vision. Data analysis is vital for informed decision-making. As roadmapping is a key part of the job, good PMs are competent users of product management applications that streamline the process.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2023

Strategic vision Great product managers have a clear vision for the future of their products. They can also translate this vision into a roadmap their teams can execute. They can also translate this vision into a roadmap their teams can execute. Just remember — “You either have data or an opinion.”

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2020

Product Data Management (PDM) is the process of collecting, organizing, storing, and sharing data within an organization. A Data Product Manager is like a Product Manager, but who focuses more heavily on Product Data Management. Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion’ – W.

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