Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

I like to think of the product strategy as a high-level plan that helps you realise your vision and that answers the following four questions: Who is the product for? To capture the product strategy, you can use my product vision board. You can download the product vision board from my website and by clicking on the image below.

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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Product managers push for roadmaps. But PMs bring something different : systems thinking, long-term vision, and the ability to synthesize inputs from across the business. Download our Product Leader First 90 Days Template Pack to define your teams values, vision, and KPIsand create alignment from day one. Whats your take?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 10, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Traditional vs Outcome-based Roadmaps Before I share the four steps, let me briefly describe the main differences between a traditional, feature- and an outcome-based product roadmap. A traditional roadmap is essentially a list of features, which are mapped onto a timeline.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it. Smaller strategy updates and product roadmapping decisions, however, are not as critical. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Connect Decisions to Customer Needs: Show how your roadmap addresses customer pain points to build trust. Inspire Confidence with a Clear Vision A compelling product vision unites teams and stakeholders, positioning you as a leader with purpose and direction. Click here to download.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Click on the picture to download the stack. These are the business strategy , which is also referred to as corporate strategy , the product portfolio strategy , the technology strategy, and the product strategy , as well as the product roadmap , the technology roadmap, and the product backlog.

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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. To achieve this, refer to the needs and business goals stated in the product strategy and the product goals on the product roadmap. Auditable : The data can be clearly traced back to its source.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s Product Roadmap Building Time Again! The end of 2020 is nearing and it’s product roadmap building time again?—?at To make that process as worthwhile as possible, adhering to the following seven product roadmap first principles has proven beneficial in my experience. The classic quote from Lewis Carroll works here, too.)

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy. [1] To get started, create your own Portfolio Vision Board by downloading and adapting the Product Vision Board or by recreating it in your favourite tool.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

When we lock ourselves into planning to build a set of features (ehem, Roadmaps), we rarely stop to question if those features are the right things to build to reach our goals. Product Strategy is a system of achievable goals and visions that work together to align the team around desirable outcomes for both the business and your customers.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Hard skills like market research or roadmapping are important, but they’re not enough. 17:30] Tell us about product vision. When you make a major change to an existing product, revisit the vision and adjust if necessary.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Typically, there are two big phases in bringing a product from vision to launch: planning and execution. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap? We tap into all of that to write the vision document. [8:27] At what cadence do you do that?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

A handy tool to capture your answers and describe the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in the picture below. You can download the template by clicking on the image and you can find more advice on how to use it in the article The Product Vision Board.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Often, companies approach me asking for help with their product strategy and they’re really focused on the roadmap. While the roadmap and choosing features is the last step of product strategy, it’s not the whole picture. Download the framework. Along with this is the vision—the big picture of your purpose.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. Product strategy sits in between the mission and vision and the plan, either at the company level or at the team level.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 4, 2021

Insights on roadmaps, metrics, OKRs, and more for product managers. Joining us for this episode is a CPO who shares some of the tools he uses, including roadmaps, metrics, and OKRs. In my company, I help with hiring great people across the company and explaining why the company is going to win using its great product vision.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 25, 2021

Internalizing a vision and communicating it to others. Managing pricing and roadmaps. Click here to download the Action Guide. “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Internalizing a vision and communicating it to others. Managing pricing and roadmaps. Building business cases.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

What strategies do you use to prioritize your product roadmap? Her passion is derived from igniting vision, commitment, innovation, and trust in leadership, development, and marketing teams. ? You can have beautiful roadmap decks and beautiful PowerPoints. ” What strategies do you use to prioritize your product roadmap?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

A group of passionate users in our social media and forum communities drives our roadmap and and helps us understand the problems we need to solve. We’re pushing the boundaries of computer vision and machine learning. For the last few months, I’ve been sharing our roadmap. Click here to download the Action Guide.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

With us is David Rogers, an expert on digital transformation, a member of the faculty at Columbia Business School, and the author of five books, including The Digital Transformation Roadmap. Your vision must be rooted in your particular business and unique capabilities. Click here to download the Action Guide.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2021

20:16] What are your suggestions for structuring and using roadmaps? Especially for B2B software, roadmaps are a critical part of communicating with customers. Even for B2C software, when we buy products, we’re investing in a company and a vision. We’re buying the roadmap. We’re buying the roadmap.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

As they wait for the downloads to come, they realize—all too late—the fallacy of this assumption. If you’re ready to submit your app to the app stores next week, condense the most important elements of pre-launch into a one-week period and move the other items to your post-launch roadmap. A certain amount of downloads?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Important roadmap deadlines? 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? Themes—Not Dates—Are the Stars of Your Roadmap. A product roadmap conveys the strategic direction and goals of your product.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

We have to know the vision we have behind the product, which means who do we design it for and what problems do we solve with it? Besides the long-term goals, a simple, high-level roadmap is also good, to communicate the most important areas we have to cover to achieve our goals. About the Author.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 18, 2021

I oversee product planning, product roadmap, vision, and strategy for our products. Click here to download the Action guide. “Vision without execution is hallucination.” I oversee product planning, product roadmap, vision, and strategy for our products. 4:42] Where do your ideas come from?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. 6:52] Did you find a gap in the roadmapping tools that were available before you started Gocious?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The first and possibly most powerful goal is the vision , which describes the ultimate reason for creating your product and the positive change it should bring about. As this example shows, the vision is an inspirational, visionary goal that cannot be measured. An example I like to use is healthy eating. Getting to Shared Goals.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 6, 2018

To keep the discussion aligned with the product, which might not even exist at that point, I start from the features on the roadmap and regroup them by the area of the problem they address, rather than chronologically. A story that includes all the key messages that you derived from your roadmap. A story that only you can tell.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 15, 2021

They create the roadmaps and vision. Product managers connect everyone under a common vision, similar to what CEOs do, which is why many product managers become CEOs and many startup founders and CEOs later become product leaders. [7:26] The pandemic has accelerated product roadmaps dramatically. Innovation Quote.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Previously, Bruce joined us for a three-part series on creating and using product roadmaps. He is the co-author of the book Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction While Embracing Uncertainty. 7:13] How did you move from focusing on roadmaps to focusing on stakeholder management? The goal is alignment of the team.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 18, 2021

The IMPACT approach to product management’s primary goal is creating the maximum value for the broadest target audience while remaining aligned with the company’s mission, vision, and goals. But if there’s one part of product management that needs IMPACT more than anywhere else, it’s roadmapping. IMPACT doesn’t begin with the roadmap.

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Product Culture

APRIL 17, 2024

Product Vision and Themes are the first steps in articulating a powerful, successful roadmap — and yet most roadmaps leave them out, focusing only on features and dates. We’ve developed a roadmap slide format focused on these missing ingredients. Download the free template at my Product Culture Academy.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

So far, this Product Owner interview guide has been downloaded more than 7,500 times. ?? Download ’71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Hiring Agile Imposters’ Product Owner Interview Questions: The Organization of Questions and Answers The ebook provides both questions as well as guidance on the range of suitable answers.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Your manager wants a roadmap update, engineering has questions about priorities, and stakeholders are asking about timelines. Align with Your Team: Ill help you build trust and rally your team around a shared vision. Download the PM Role Clarity Canvas: This tool brings immediate clarity to your role and expectations.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Tying everything to a strong value proposition and vision is effectively the kind of thing that produces a cohesive product. The result is that the collective understanding of the product vision gets ever fuzzier and the strategy gets increasingly harder to define. Thanks for talking this over with me.

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