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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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. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:11] What can make them better?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 9, 2023

powered Bing search engine. And product management is not immune to this new era of artificial intelligence. The emergence of AI in product management is simultaneously being welcomed with a red carpet, ignored as nothing more than a fad, and outright shunned as death, a destroyer of worlds. And roadmapping is no different.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

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 is “Product Vision”? Your product vision ultimately answers the questions “why are we building this?” Write code.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

As the Head of Product at ProductPlan, I spend a lot of time talking to product teams and learning about their experiences throughout the product development process. By working together and being transparent, product and engineering will see each other as partners seeking to achieve the same goals.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 26, 2020

Get real about roadmaps and plans Beyond Gantt Charts and releases If this was 40 years ago and you were doing a cross-country road trip from the American east coast to the west coast, you’ld probably have a roadmap. Your software product roadmap or project plan should do the same for you. to your product and its KPIs.

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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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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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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We also look at: The differences between a technical and regular product manager Their responsibilities The qualities and skills that you need to make it as a technical PM How Userpilot can help technical product managers achieve their goals Let’s get right into it! What is a technical product manager?

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  So the ratio of wants/needs/demands/ couldas/shouldas to actual development capacity is often 20x-50x. Said another way, this week’s new “must do” items look like a year’s worth of additions to the roadmap.    The corporate strategy, which the product strategy supports. 

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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. It’s actually already happening in engineering (check out Devin and Magic ).

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Prior to joining GitHub, she led engineering and product teams at Amazon and Microsoft.

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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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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development !

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Bryce York

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Surprisingly, there isn’t a universal or formal definition of the product development lifecycle. If you’re a product manager looking for a framework to structure your product development lifecycle, focus on these four key phases: Discovery. The 4 Phases of The Product Development Lifecycle.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 20, 2022

A product roadmap represents your strategic plan to solve a problem for your market. The reason to share your product roadmap plan with stakeholders is to create transparency and alignment across your company. But your roadmap does not represent an obligation or commitment to accomplish everything on it.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 29, 2023

To add more complexity to this issue, these teams handling the launch processes typically coordinate their efforts in a tool that is entirely separate from the product roadmap. We wanted to create a deeper connection with your launch planning and roadmap strategy so that your teams have all the information they need in one place.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Or PMs at larger established tech firms might see great PMs at work within their company, but they struggled to reverse engineer just how to recreate their success for themselves. Take product roadmaps for example. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

In this article, we’re going to unpack what is product management , how it differs from traditional project management, the role it plays in building products that delight your users, and the skills a good product manager must demonstrate to succeed. What is product management? Drives product success.

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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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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. And yet, there they are.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Every software team out there uses some sort of planning system or tool to do product roadmaps and sprint plans, and yet many are unhappy with the tools, or frustrated at the lack of getting things done, or getting “pointless” things done, and the list goes on. What do the product roadmapping or planning tools offer us?

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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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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jonathan Berg Director of Product Management, Schoology.

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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.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As product managers, the product roadmap is at the core of everything we do. The product roadmap is a key point of reference to keep product strategy, business objectives, and execution aligned. Today we look at a few simple tips for product roadmap presentations. Tell a story.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As noted in my last post , Sales and Marketing often wonder whether Engineering is sufficiently motivated and engaged. Motivation and engagement look different on the tech side of the room: the outbound team often can’t tell whether Engineering is emotionally engaged. Some Engineering teams are unmotivated, though. So improving.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

Product management is inherently awe-inspiring. Product leaders must influence and engage all stakeholders, from sales and technical support to client success, design, research, marketing, and engineering. We walked them through our vision, product roadmap, customer value, business value, and KPIs.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Others dive into the specifics and make engineering teams happy since they’re so detailed. Gather consensus around goals.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Platforms offer several benefits: They can help grow a product portfolio faster and cheaper and they can help increase revenue. If the teams developing the different apps all created their own user-interface layers, there would be considerable code duplication, added development costs, and increased development time.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

They claim to have a product lifecycle and even talk about a product lifecycle but don’t write it down or anchor product development, launch, and management in it. Although there are many definitions of product lifecycle management (PLM), they all share common threads. Product Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2022

I remember when I joined an early stage startup and started to develop hard skills. I learned SQL and JavaScript to gain autonomy and engineers’ respect. When I started my career in product I looked up to the Google Product Manager. He had an engineering background and other hard skills. Forget about it.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2021

Our SVP of Product, Paul Adams, describes innovation as building something new, different, and better. This type of innovation can factor into the business strategy, product strategy, and execution levels. At the product strategy level, does this project sit within a product area that requires an innovative solution?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2019

Here's a breakdown of how to consider a career in product management versus software engineering As a new grad, I was lucky enough to choose between product management and software engineering amongst other options. As an engineer, you’re responsible for building and shipping software. What do you do everyday?

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