article thumbnail

Tips to collaborate better with your development team

Mind the Product

Why are development teams so hard to work with? You’ve done your part—you have your OKRs, roadmaps, specs and designs in good shape. Read more » The post Tips to collaborate better with your development team appeared first on Mind the Product. You’ve made delivery commitments to stakeholders.

article thumbnail

Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Golden rules for roadmap management. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’. It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’.

Roadmap 114
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

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. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

article thumbnail

10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

Roadmap 332
article thumbnail

How Leveraging Data Creates Efficient Product Roadmaps

Speaker: Hannah Chaplin - Product Marketing Principal & Steve Cheshire - Product Manager

Without product usage data and user feedback guiding your product roadmap, product managers and engineers end up wasting money, time, and effort building what they think stakeholders want, rather than what they know they need. Product roadmaps must focus on the "now" and allow feedback to inform the "later."

article thumbnail

3 Tips for Optimizing the Product Manager and Product Owner Relationship [+Webinar]

280 Group

Tip #1: Be Clear on Who Does What. Tip #2: Build a Collaborative Relationship. Moreover, sometimes PMs and POs are in separate organizations entirely; POs often live in the engineering organization, due to their direct embedding in development teams, while PMs often reside in Marketing. Tip #3: Build a Career Path.

Webinar 358
article thumbnail

Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

The following tips will help you with this. A handy stakeholder analysis tool is the power-interest grid developed by Ackermann and Eden. Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap. Focus on the Right Individuals.

article thumbnail

Leading Under Uncertainty

Speaker: Greg Coticchia, CEO & Founder of ENTRA

In this session, we will discuss important tips for you as a Product Manager dealing with uncertainty. Where to focus your product and product roadmap in uncertain times. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! How do you survive to fight the fight another day? Hunker down? Ride it out?

article thumbnail

When Life Gives You Lemons Make PM Lemonade: Surviving Product Management During Crisis

Speaker: Vivek Bedi, Keynote Speaker, Author & Entrepreneur

The work/life balance of PMs is being tested; managing a product team and various roadmaps virtually adds to the list of current challenges. Join Vivek Bedi as he reveals the truths of product management, shares his own failures, and also gives tips on how to survive this crisis and excel as a product manager.

article thumbnail

How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Join Christian Bonilla, VP of Product at UserTesting, as he reveals tips for taking ownership of the product vision to guide the development process. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! February 9th, 2022 at 9:30 am PST, 12:30 pm EST, 5:30 pm GMT.