The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

It forced me to question a belief, as a product leader, I treated as an absolute — that products always require roadmaps. My mentor and I started in our usual spot, talking about startups and new products in the healthcare industry. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” An hour flew by.

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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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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

How to Develop Product Roadmap? Writing Good PRD & Managing Product Backlog [Back to?—? Product Management 101 ] Great products are not accidental. They all start with a focused strategy. To lay out and document your strategy, you need to develop a Product Roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2023

What Is Product Strategy Exactly? And Why It Matters Product strategy is a creative act, to “do something new,” approaching an opportunity from a different angle. — Self So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” I snapped out of la la land.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Vital to delivering successful products at Clickatell , an effective product roadmap can quell the confusion and missteps that often derail well-meaning product delivery organizations. Roadmaps provide the required context to understand how individual initiatives combine to meet strategic objectives.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is 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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. So as he leaned across the table and looked me in the eyes, he demanded, “Explain why I need a product roadmap.” Why not, indeed?

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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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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Consequently, a platform should have its own product strategy and roadmap , KPIs , product backlog , and well-designed software architecture that leverages the right technologies. Make sure, though, that the platform decisions are guided by the needs of the products it serves. Start Small.

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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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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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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I’ve had some requests from listeners to explore product roadmaps, so I had a discussion with Jim Semick. He is co-founder of ProductPlan , which creates roadmap software for product teams. The best practices for constructing product roadmaps. Practices and Ideas for Product Managers and Innovators.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But sustainable pace is equally important for you, the person in charge of the product. These include interviewing users, working on the product roadmap, updating the product backlog, engaging with the stakeholders, and working with the development team, to name just a few. Share the Work. Prioritise.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Product roadmaps is one of the subjects I am probably the most passionate about in the product world. They’re controversial and usually carry a love-hate relationship stigma for many product managers. An outcome-based roadmap just sounds like a c-suite failing to construct a functional product organisation.”.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As product managers, the product roadmap is at the core of everything we do. It is a living document that sheds light on what’s happening today, tomorrow, and in the future. The product roadmap is a key point of reference to keep product strategy, business objectives, and execution aligned.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

How Growth Teams and Product Teams Should Work Together. Product teams and growth teams should be working together to focus the overall team strategy. In a young growth team, it’s not always clear that a product strategy, target metrics or resources need to be more focused. Operationalizing Product Themes.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 29, 2023

Now, we want to help you capture your product strategy. Today, we are launching the Open Beta for a new strategy space in ProductPlan. Many of our customers are candid about their struggles to connect initiatives planned in their roadmaps to the broader goals they support. They visualize what you’re building next.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

2 Unique value proposition should be the major criterion for making decisions Roger Cauvin, founder at Dadnab Product strategy should drive all product decisions. 2 Unique value proposition should be the major criterion for making decisions Roger Cauvin, founder at Dadnab Product strategy should drive all product decisions.

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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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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Roadmaps are a unique tool for creating and maintaining stakeholder alignment, resource planning, and budgeting purposes. But what happens when you’re managing a product that is being continually updated? This is the situation for countless SaaS product management professionals lucky enough to manage products via this model.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The strategy is the document that directs the mass of energy in the same direction significantly moving the needle versus a lot of activity moving in different directions not getting very far. On more reflection, the most challenging part for me is that I get lost in figuring out how to articulate, package and share the strategy.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2022

Product roadmapping frameworks work in a very similar way. There are a few routes you can take to achieve your product goals. Recap: What are Product Roadmaps? A product roadmap is a holistic visual document that outlines your product’s growth path. Let’s map this out.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

When data collection is messy, product managers lose visibility, teams waste hours chasing answers, and user experience suffers. Heres how data fragmentation hurts your product strategy and development: Fragmented data can cause flawed strategic decisions Every product decision starts with a question: Whats driving retention ?

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UX Planet

JUNE 14, 2024

Over 8,000 people were interested, so I figured this would be a perfect opportunity to explore my product strategy skills. A product strategy is a clear roadmap that ensures a “product or feature” is built for the right reasons, solves the right problems, and stands out from the crowd. Why or why not?

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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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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better?—?and

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

However, what can product leaders do to overcome the challenge? The key is the standardization of the product roadmap. Stacey explained they needed a visual roadmap that their leadership team and stakeholders could easily digest. Now all teams break out product work into four swim lanes within their ProductPlan roadmaps.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I find that every business requires at least these 8 product/market fit hypotheses that make up their product strategy, but your specific business may have more: Target audience Problem you're solving Value propositions Strategic differentiation Competition Acquisition strategy Monetization strategy Key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals 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. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

If I could pick one thing to kill because of the problems it causes, roadmaps might very well be at the top of the list. And it’s not that I don’t like roadmaps, or at least the principle of a product roadmaps. Purpose of a Roadmap The first thing is to really understand the purpose (or purposes) of a product roadmap.

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ProductBoard

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A product strategy roadmap isn’t just a document; it’s a strategic guide that steers businesses towards their desired outcomes. Like an actual map, a product roadmap serves as a visual aid to help steer. Like an actual map, a product roadmap serves as a visual aid to help steer.

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