Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer. But instead of telling a clear, compelling story, they send out a spec or share a roadmap deckand hope it gets read. Share it with leadership. Not because the ideas are bad, but because the delivery misses the mark.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. Share Leadership and Credit.

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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

Technology Roadmap Figure out the dev stack, the product backlog tools (Jira vs. Aha?), Hot Tip: At one acquired company, Brian discovered they used a rare programming language (Clojure) that none of his existing engineers knew. She standardized everythingno more 14 different ways to build a roadmap.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 22, 2019

Product roadmaps are frequently used badly, almost as handcuffs for product managers. A year ago we explored roadmaps and how they should be used with Bruce McCarthy. At the time, he had recently co-authored the book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty. Who the roadmap is for.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I believe the main culprits are Mr. Roadmap and Mr. Backlog. Culprit #1: Mr. Roadmap. How should we balance technical debt vs our feature roadmap? However, with the structure described here, it’s possible to quantify and visualize these shifts over time, so that we can show where the problem is and discuss it with leadership.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Working in startups and big technology companies, I’ve encountered one question more than most: “How do I make the switch from engineering to product management?”. My Journey Transitioning from Engineering to Product Management.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

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 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. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Then I thought further; maybe scenarios exist where roadmaps are optional. Roadmaps are not always needed. Roadmaps early on tend to box you in.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2021

And just like I encourage trios to share their discovery context before they share their roadmaps and backlogs, I’ll do the same here, before I talk about my plans for the year ahead. The Master Class also works well as a solution under the leadership branch. Product Talk’s Desired Outcome.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 30, 2021

The solution requires companies to institute two parallel career growth paths — one that focuses on people management and another that focuses on leadership as an individual contributor , often titled as staff or principal designers. Senior designers are actively involved in roadmapping and strategy conversations for their team.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Tailor Your Communication: Adapt your messaging for different audiences, whether its engineering teams or senior leadership. Connect Decisions to Customer Needs: Show how your roadmap addresses customer pain points to build trust. Present a high-level roadmap by your 90-day mark to demonstrate strategic planning.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

Paul acquired the breadth of experience through his leadership roles at San Francisco Bay Area startups and high-growth companies. If the leadership team doesn’t have a good understanding of how to engage with a product manager and what to expect from them, then any reason is enough reason to move on and find someone else.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication. Garrett also spent some time in other industries working with for the PwC and Google Cloud Alliance leading a product/engineering organization of over 50.

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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. The plan or roadmap is basically an ordered list of projects based on some notion of prioritization and sequence of delivery.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap? At what cadence do you do that?

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 7, 2025

Building Relationships Across Teams As a product manager, your success relies on collaboration with stakeholders from engineering, design, marketing, and leadership. Build Confidence : Show your team and leadership that youre intentional and proactive. However, crafting an effective 90-day plan isnt a one-size-fits-all task.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Then I thought further; maybe complete scenarios exist where roadmaps aren’t needed. Fast forward to the end, there are in fact scenarios where companies and products do not need roadmaps. Tell me your perspective.”,

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2019

Great engineers leave when they are no longer excited by an opportunity. These engineers are in demand, they have other companies constantly knocking on their doors, pitching them exciting opportunities, as well as money, in an attempt to convince them to leave. Why should we care enough to make that our responsibility?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This move demonstrates the importance of innovation and risk-taking in maintaining market leadership. Conclusion The strategies and experiences shared by Greg Coticchia provide a roadmap for navigating the complex landscape of product portfolio management and business growth strategies.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

For an end-user-facing product, this usually requires a UX designer, an architect/programmer, and a tester/QA engineer to be members of the product team, as Figure 1 shows. [2] You might talk to the sales rep, for example, and ask them about the viability of using existing sales channels or get their feedback on a draft product roadmap.

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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. 5:42] How do you use roadmaps? I use PowerPoint or Google slides for my roadmaps. I structure these roadmaps very clearly.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Principal Engineer Todd Johnson walks the team through orchestration based on the results of the exercise. Lisa soon realized that her team was turning to her for guidance on the orchestration roadmap. This vision could then be broken down into parts that could be prioritized and fed into the roadmap. Part 1: The Design Sprint.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 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 Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Why does product vision matter to your engineers? What is “Product Vision”? Directionality. Point your tickets. Sprint planning. Write code.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

OK, maybe we tie with engineering team leads.) To anyone outside the product team, we are design, engineering, QA, data, knowledge team, and often marketing. ” Company roadmaps might be linear, but customer insights from outside the building are (rightfully) a jungle. Shower them with positivity.

Product Research 113

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Read more » The post A designer, a product manager, and an engineer walk into a bar…by Karishma Irani appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Google - The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, written by Larry Page & Sergey Brin in 1998. I find that a product walkthrough is often needed when you are trying to make the case to leadership to green-light a new venture based on the strength of your vision for it. Design: Product Roadmap.

Data Visualization 218

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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.

Analytic Tools 268

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2021

Do you want to represent a big idea concisely to your customers or your leadership? The Concept Map Target Audience: Product Teams and Leadership Intent: Sharing Vision and presenting the concept for acceptance The concept map helps you illustrate and present, well, a concept. Good things come in small boxes.

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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. Product Leadership. Todd Lombardo, Head of Product & Experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 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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