Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. What happens when you show a senior leader a roadmap? Product leaders need to create confidence by using the value drivers of their product strategy to frame the roadmap - or in some cases replace it.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ? To ensure you’re adding the right features and initiatives to your product roadmap, I’ve outlined several suggestions here. Start with the product vision.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2019

Marketable – be attractive enough to differentiate itself from competitors. “If your product team isn’t taking roadmap input from your sales team, you’re not listening to the potential market” Second, sales and product need a way to collaborate on the product roadmap. You need to differentiate.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

You need to collect customer feedback , prioritize roadmaps , and ship features and products that offer a brilliant user experience. Differentiated SaaS Growth. The differentiated growth approach is creating a product with unique features which can make it stand out from the crowd. Nonetheless, they generate healthy profits.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Differentiate : Embrace uniqueness as being the same can be limiting and honestly quite tiring. Read People-First Product Leadership How to create the future together through backcasting When I worked in emerging media at Razorfish , developing a strategy brief was always a collaborative effort.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. Conveying purpose through your product roadmap Some recent conversations highlighted for me the need to state that product roadmap is not a plan, but a vehicle for communicating purpose. A purpose we believed in.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A robust UX strategy is also a valuable differentiator helping you stand out in competitive markets. 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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Product Management University

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Shift your product enhancement process from feature priorities to outcome priorities and watch everyone fall in love with your roadmaps! Transform product marketing from a tactical sales support function to a strategic leadership function. Shorter sales cycles and competitive differentiation.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

They define product roadmaps, set priorities, and ensure smooth coordination among teams to meet deadlines. Beyond technical prowess, they possess strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, making tough decisions to ensure the product’s success. Product Development and Roadmapping : Collaboration is the key.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. A clear product vision Every business and product needs a vision to guide everything that follows, from strategy to staffing to roadmaps. Given these roadmaps’ complex and interdependent nature, trying to manage them in a spreadsheet or slide deck is a disaster.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 31, 2024

I’ll demonstrate with a facilitation exercise I ran for a leadership team where we shaped a product – in this case, a bespoke transformation services engagement. I find this to follow the same patterns as developing a product roadmap to operationalize a product strategy. We were ready for the next step.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

You could have more competition, and the core value prop is not differentiated enough. With finite, precious resources and an aggressive roadmap, you need to retain talent and resources passionate about both your product and your customers. A 10%+ churn signifies you have serious leadership, cultural, or operational issues.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. It’s very transparent, very collaborative, and filled with really smart, amazing people.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Their responsibilities include product discovery, developing product vision, prioritization , roadmapping , analyzing product performance and its iterative development, and leading the product team. TL;DR Product managers define the overall product direction and oversee the entire product lifecycle. The product manager role is very complex.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 10, 2024

The product strategy and product roadmap will be shared with you, but you will not define them. Share People-First Product Leadership Does product sense go stale over time? Creating thoughtful, well-designed products is a differentiator that drives customer satisfaction and retention. Share People-First Product Leadership

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

Market All business messengers had become homogenised, we needed to differentiate. Build alignment Generate clarity and excitement with teams and leadership. Unlock planning Facilitate multi-quarter roadmapping and resourcing. This deck helped leadership understand and buy into the work. A framing to set the scene.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

As a Product analyst, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. Our group of experienced Product Managers works closely with C-suite leadership teams to build products, prototypes and MVPs. About XMachina.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. A clear product vision Every business and product needs a vision to guide everything that follows, from strategy to staffing to roadmaps. Given these roadmaps’ complex and interdependent nature, trying to manage them in a spreadsheet or slide deck is a disaster.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

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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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Product analyst, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. Our group of experienced Product Managers works closely with C-suite leadership teams to build products, prototypes and MVPs. About XMachina.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Product analyst intern, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. Our group of experienced Product Managers works closely with C-suite leadership teams to build products, prototypes and MVPs.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Product analyst intern, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. Our group of experienced Product Managers works closely with C-suite leadership teams to build products, prototypes and MVPs.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Neil Rahilly, Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, walks us through how product management leadership priorities change as you move from startup through scale up and all the way to enterprise. Personally, I don’t want other company’s roadmaps; I want their user feedback, their customer gaps, and their feature requests.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Looking ahead, Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Use this insight to differentiate your organization from others in the space. ” If you find yourself in this spot, work with leadership to identify priorities and align resources to the agreed priorities. See you soon!

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2022

This means the messaging and marketing focus on educating the market about what differentiates their new product from the available alternatives. Product differentiation. Therefore, product differentiation takes the lead in what gets communicated and emphasized during the launch. Brand Extension and Expansion.

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Product Warrior

DECEMBER 7, 2022

If your roadmap is overly specific about the solutions to deliver, you will waste money, fail to satisfy your customers, damage staff morale and miss market-leading opportunities. Done well, you will align leadership and empower product teams leading to market differentiation and growth. The full series is listed below.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

It’s a mindset: “Think big enough that the first product is a sound launching pad for it and its next generation and the roadmap that follows, but not so small that you leave room for a competitor to get the jump on you,” he says. Ultimately, we created delight through our overall ease-of-use, creating and sharing a roadmap within minutes.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

That leads to large and unchangeable roadmaps and a lot of emphasis on predictability. Let's differentiate between the strategic and the tactical. This means you can create a product roadmap and a backlog. If you can't write that down, you can't build a roadmap or a backlog. Roadmaps are tactics, not strategies.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

To innovate effectively, you have to be able to differentiate between the known and unknown problems you are trying to solve, and adjust your operations accordingly. We have to learn how to market and sell, and create a roadmap that can eventually be transitioned into an execution mode. Known vs Unknown.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In some industry verticals, “going digital” is happening so slowly that a successful transformation is seen as a way to differentiate an organisation from the competition. How Does Product Management Enable Digital Transformation? Capgemini’s white paper states that “successful digital transformation does not happen bottom up.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

Their key focus is defining the product vision , developing strategy, and building the product roadmap to align with the business strategy and user needs. Navigating the corporate landscape to secure the leadership’s buy-in and resources is a big part of their job. They play an important role in product launches.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

He’s so invested in product management he co-founded a company devoted to helping teams create amazing product roadmaps. See Jim Semick’s advice on product leadership in our Spotlights video: 2. Watch Carlos discuss adapting your business in our webinar on resilient leadership: 5. Adrienne Tan. Amber Kearney. Matt Bilotti.

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Gainsight

JULY 11, 2023

A few years later, in 2012, my company was acquired by SPS Commerce (NASDAQ SPSC), and as part of that acquisition, I joined their leadership team. Staging Our Next Act Though our growth was solid and steady, and by all operational and financial metrics, we were making significant progress, my leadership team knew we could accelerate.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

”  “Once Finance tells us how many developers we can hire next year, Engineering can assign teams to possible roadmap items.” ” I’m constantly talking with product leaders who have to build a next-year product plan without anything to hang it on. 

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Organizations from early-stage startups to mature enterprises have been prioritizing design and its methods as a competitive differentiator for years. Under supportive leadership, designers can be enabled to ask the right questions, explore divergent paths, and validate assumptions through controlled experimentation. Embrace Iteration.

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Izenda

JUNE 28, 2020

In software development, a product manager is inherently the CEO of the product: the person who is responsible for strategizing and defining the product roadmap. Company size differentiates the depth of thinking a product manager takes when developing the product strategy and roadmap. What time frame needs to be set?

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Neil Rahilly, Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, walks us through how product management leadership priorities change as you move from startup through scale up and all the way to enterprise. Personally, I don’t want other company’s roadmaps; I want their user feedback, their customer gaps, and their feature requests.

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