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How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. But the training was intense! Roadmaps are stories. ” A lot of roadmaps are simply incomprehensible.

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. Output-focused product roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty, all while limiting product work to a few big bets, which may or may not pan out. We broke into pairs and then each pair developed a feature roadmap along a particular area of focus.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

In terms of research and development or generally the product and engineering functions, the people who produce your software, this really is a question of investability. ” And so we went through this exercise, looking for these big areas of additional investment. Should we sink bigger? Should we plan bigger? We came up with 14.

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