Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Is a Product Portfolio Strategy and Why Does It Matter? A product portfolio strategy is a high-level plan that helps you maximise the value a group of products creates. These guide and align the strategies of the portfolio members , as Figure 1 illustrates.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. Bob is the author of the book Creative Strategy Generation. I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company.

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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. This didn’t sit well with the CTO because in reality he didn’t want a strategy, he wanted a plan. This isn’t a strategy, this is a plan.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Even among experienced product professionals, a common misconception in business holds that product strategy and business strategy mean the same thing. Product professionals need to understand the distinction between business strategy vs. product strategy. A Closer Look at Each Strategy.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? 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?

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? 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?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

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.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Having “no company strategy” is one of the biggest issues facing product managers, according to a recent survey of over 600 product people. After all, how can you set a reasonable direction for your product when you don’t know where your company is headed? Download the Product Funnel template.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

The value the product should create is not clearly understood : A validated product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are missing. A powerful stakeholder or line manager determines the KPIs —not the person in charge of the product. If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 21, 2024

Calling busy product professionals! We get it–your days are packed with roadmap review meetings, brainstorming sessions, and making (what sometimes feels like) too many PowerPoint presentations. Despite some significant challenges, 2024 is the year of product It’s official, 2024 is shaping up to be the year of product.

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Dear Strategy

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we talk about the difference between a product strategy and a go-to-market plan, and why it’s important to have both of these key planning tools working together in harmony. That’s really all a strategy is – an overarching plan that provides context and meaning to a set of actions.

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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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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

If that’s not the case, then it will be difficult to encourage the individuals to agree to more specific goals and to follow a product strategy and a product roadmap that are based on the vision. A handy tool to describe the vision is my product vision board.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Felix Sargent Product Manager, Bloomberg.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2016

What is a Product Roadmap? A product roadmap communicates how a product is likely to evolve across several major releases. Product roadmaps vary in their format. I prefer to work with goal-oriented roadmaps (also called theme-based roadmaps). How do the Release Plan and Roadmap Relate?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Important roadmap deadlines? A positive product review in a major industry publication? What if I told you the team is celebrating the fact that they released the new version of their product a day before the internal deadline on their roadmap? Will our customers be enthusiastic about this new product release?

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Is it Time to Declare Roadmap Bankruptcy? Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to understand why this outcome occurred. That way, you’ll know if your strategic plan is working and your roadmap is on the right track, or if it’s time to declare roadmap bankruptcy.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Is it Time to Declare Roadmap Bankruptcy? Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to understand why this outcome occurred. That way, you’ll know if your strategic plan is working and your roadmap is on the right track, or if it’s time to declare roadmap bankruptcy.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2018

It’s much more difficult to manage a product in its maturity or decline stages, so I wanted to tackle the challenges of a product that’s past its initial growth stage, and share some tips on: – How to avoid becoming a feature factory, while taming your beast of a backlog. The Product Lifecycle. Assumption #4.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 7, 2022

Leveraging digital analytics tools—Google Analytics, for example—to gain better insights into customer behavior and product usage. Transforming the company’s software offering from a client-side app downloaded by customers to a SaaS solution that customers access in the cloud. But remember, transformation is complex.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The top-down view: An epic is a body of work that a product team devises as they break down a strategic theme into smaller initiatives. A theme on your product roadmap might contain two or more epics. Several related stories on the roadmap will often roll up to a single epic. EPIC: Simplify the trial download process.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Pete, the marketer, agreed to rework the marketing strategy to support the next major release. Cindy who helps you manage the product started to come late to meetings. You can download the infographic by clicking on it. Sue, the Scrum Master , wanted to help the development team get better at sprint planning.

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ProductPlan

JULY 2, 2021

For instance, we have content on topics from product strategy examples to Agile, presenting a roadmap to stakeholders, change management, and so much more. Of course, if you seek best practices for using ProductPlan’s roadmap platform, you’ll also find tips in the Learning Center. . The Product Strategy Playbook.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 1, 2020

Users don’t want to download and install updates regularly, plus there’s often no guarantee users will even bother at all with the latest version. So how do product roadmaps help ensure this remains the case? Product Roadmaps for Computer Software Product Managers. Good ideas are a dime a dozen.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 18, 2018

If you haven’t found the right objective goal-setting framework for setting roadmap priorities, consider Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Although not designed for product roadmaps in particular, the OKR model has a lot to offer product teams. How to Use OKRs for Product Roadmap Prioritization.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Is it Time to Declare Roadmap Bankruptcy? Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to understand why this outcome occurred. That way, you’ll know if your strategic plan is working and your roadmap is on the right track, or if it’s time to declare roadmap bankruptcy.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Important roadmap deadlines? A positive product review in a major industry publication? What if I told you the team is celebrating the fact that they released the new version of their product a day before the internal deadline on their roadmap? Will our customers be enthusiastic about this new product release?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Photo by Barn Images on Unsplash Best 10+ Resources to awaken your strategic brain Books, articles, and strategy gurus As you climb the career ladder, you realize you need to allocate more time to strategic work and less to your well-known tactical tasks. but we had no previous training on strategy.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 25, 2020

We’re seeing companies hire Chief Experience Officers and Chief Customer Officers to help lead innovation and strategy around the customer experience. So that leads us back to the purpose of this post: Redefining the role of mobile product managers. READ: 14 Common Mobile Product Management Challenges.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 22, 2023

As an example, ProductPlan tracks a variety of data points about actions our users take with our product. We don’t have access to the roadmaps they work with, but we can see what features people use and don’t use. Generally, you pick the changes to your product that will have the biggest impact on the metrics you tied to your strategy.

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

You see, the reason I started the Dear Strategy podcast was mostly to educate. Now, I’m sure I didn’t go about the process in exactly the most effective way, but, even so, that particular strategy has resulted in absolutely zero leads! But – remember – I’m a strategy guy! I love teaching and sharing knowledge with others.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2020

I shared how we’re navigating these big changes, from the immediate impacts on customers, to the implications for our marketing and product plans, and, finally, to our customer communications strategy. And if your customer’s context has changed, as it has so dramatically in the current situation, then your strategy must evolve as well.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 4, 2021

Insights on roadmaps, metrics, OKRs, and more for product managers. In a few weeks, the name will change to Product Masters Now. You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but I want you to know the name change is coming—The Everyday Innovator will be renamed to Product Masters Now. . What is the solution?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Part of the solution is to establish a set of shared goals —goals that people support and that help you progress your product. The development team and stakeholders then use these goals to determine the work they have to do—be it creating a marketing strategy, investigating a new technology, or preparing the distribution channels.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

So, how does a product manager take ownership of more than just backlog management? How can you take responsibility for the vision and shape the future of your product when you don’t control strategy at the corporate level?”. Developing a Product Strategy. Product Vision. Product Strategy.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Before joining Rabbit, Amanda was Chief Data & Strategy Officer at HotelTonight, the leading mobile app for last-minute hotel bookings, where she led data analytics, corporate strategy, and data engineering to create and execute data-driven growth strategies. Todd Lombardo, Head of Product & Experience.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

Insights on product strategy and customer research for product managers. Today we are looking at product management work through the eyes of a CEO, exploring several topics together. The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, the first product feedback and research tool for software companies.

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