Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

.” — Jeff Bezos Ever question the value of a product development lifecycle? 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. You are not alone. Let’s dive a bit deeper.

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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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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision?

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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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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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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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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The product development process is part art, part science, and all important to the success of your SaaS. In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. While product development describes the process of creating the product itself (i.e.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

“What is your Product Strategy? YOU NEED A STRATEGY.” When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. BUT we still had to test our ideas. This didn’t sit well with the CTO because in reality he didn’t want a strategy, he wanted a plan.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2023

A Tale of Two Roadmaps — And Why You Can’t Succeed With Only One “There is no one-size-fits-all product roadmap. A roadmap can and should look different depending on the situation. Todd Lombardo Once upon a time, in a city like yours, two versions of a roadmap emerged. Both roadmaps, though different, are crucial.

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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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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

JANUARY 21, 2021

In modern software development, product designers tend to be embedded on a cross-functional squad or scrum team. That team’s collective work is often represented, at a high level, as features on the product roadmap. The work of a product designer, however, is distinct from their developer counterparts.

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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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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?” I’m sure this was not a question as much as a test of my ability to think critically. “Of he asked.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. This will allow them to take full ownership of and responsibility for their products, and it will increase their motivation, productivity, and job satisfaction.

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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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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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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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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Your product strategy is already bulletproof — just make sure you’re not making any of these mistakes. Learn 5 examples from my career where strategy went haywire and my tips on how to avoid these situations. I’m Sándor, a product lead and former product designer with 5 years under my belt.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build successful products! Roadmapping software visualizes and plans product development over time, facilitating coordination and alignment across teams.

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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

MAY 1, 2024

How to create a great product experience for your digital products: Define your user persona and their needs. Develop and implement your digital experience strategy. Collect feedback, track product usage data, and iterate. Which team owns product experience in the software industry?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

It helps you make data-driven decisions to enhance your product and keep up with changing user needs to improve user satisfaction. Usability testing can also come in handy. Guide your product development process with the insights you’ve gathered. It ensures that your product adapts as your users’ needs change.

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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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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Data drives our decisions, and A/B tests are the norm, gut feelings and hunches don’t carry much weight anymore. They want evidence and measurability to dictate which moves the product should make. This is why developing your product sense remains so important. What is product sense?

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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. Product’s role is crucial to the development of effective product strategy and stakeholder buy-in.

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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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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

These two questions form the basis of any good product roadmap. Learn how to create the best product roadmap. Learning how to build a product roadmap is a key requirement to break into product management. Learn how to become a Product Manager. Creating a roadmap is not a difficult task.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 29, 2019

But are features truly the only beacon of light for high-impact product work? Do the constant feature requests (and the ongoing efforts to communicate progress on those requests) distract developers and product managers from being able to create a more sustainable and meaningful product? Features and Inertia.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In modern software development, product designers tend to be embedded on a cross-functional squad or scrum team. That team’s collective work is often represented, at a high level, as features on the product roadmap. The work of a product designer, however, is distinct from their developer counterparts.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

In a recent product management insights report , as many as 57% of PMs said they don’t spend enough or any time road mapping. They also said they wished they had a clearer product roadmap strategy. In addition, product managers said that direct customer feedback and insights were the best sources of their new ideas.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I recently tweeted about timeline roadmaps saying they had to go. I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. When I saw the results I thought it was worth saying on Twitter what I’ve said before: the timeline roadmap simply has to go (said Twitter thread caught fire!).

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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! It serves as a guiding light for the entire development process.

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