Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Market Analysis Before and With AI Customers are clamoring for a number of improvements to your product and youre on a mission to get them funded and on the roadmap. AI has no idea which sales deals are hinging on your roadmap. AI doesnt know if anything on your proposed roadmap will open up new markets, etc.

Product Management

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product. The GO Product Roadmap is the template I have developed to capture an outcome-based roadmap. Here are two examples of how the system in Figure 1 follows this principle. You can therefore use both frameworks together. [3]

Systems Review

Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

If your current metrics are not enough, consider revising them by asking yourself: Are leadership and all functional teams in agreement on which metrics matter most? For example, your analytics team might collaborate with your product manager to ensure the data is interpreted in the right context. How will it be analyzed?

Data Visualization

Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Now that I have experienced AI-augmented product management and leadership, I don’t think I could work for a company where AI wasn’t allowed. Here’s an example output: Six months ago, I didn’t think this could work. Our team’s performance, productivity, and NPS have all reached all-time highs.

User Testing

Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Let’s use “sending out a meeting summary” as an example action item from a meeting. ” For example, if a UX writer identifies an impending design conflict and corrals multiple product teams to reconcile it, make sure they know how much you appreciate their leadership. With everyone watching.

Product Research

Tyner Blain

MARCH 2, 2025

Leadership tells us the big projects they’ve decided to do, it’s up to us to elaborate and execute.” Here’s an example – A company is growing by acquisition, and is now faced with the integration / consolidation of two different products. “I don’t get to set the direction.

Customer Experience

The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2025

Saying no to leadership Prioritizing customer needs over politics Aligning cross-functional teams These challenges do not reflect a lack of skill. They require balancing diplomacy, data, and leadership under pressure. Most PMs struggle with three things at some point.

Customer Satisfaction

BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

For example, you may have misaligned roadmaps or inconsistent feature prioritisation that doesn’t reflect customer expectations. Outcome driven roadmaps can help ensure that customer needs are accurately reflected in every development sprint. For product managers: Closing this gap requires strong cross-functional leadership.

Data Visualization

BrainMates

MAY 26, 2025

For example, if you sell dog grooming kits, youll want to include other companies that sell similar kits in your region. Use these insights to refine your roadmap, adjust messaging, or highlight competitive advantages. Step 2: Identify Your Direct Competitors With your market segments defined, list your direct competitors.

Data Visualization

People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This guide distills the key lessons and actionable strategies from my journey, offering you a roadmap to navigate your own career pivots in the tech industry. For example, the growing emphasis on AI prompted my transition into AI-integrated coaching. People-First Leadership is a reader-supported publication.

Data Visualization

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2024

One such area is roadmap planning. My recommendation for roadmap planning is to start top-down, from the company’s strategy itself, understand it in depth, and only then start planning how you are going to make it a reality. In startups, for example, things are so dynamic that it sometimes feels irrelevant to plan too far ahead.

Healthcare

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The SpaceX Raptor engines are a great example. Then, hearing the idea repeated — delete, delete, delete — I started to think about products in general and roadmaps specifically. We have a roadmap that is largely, if not entirely, focused on releasing new stuff while maintaining what we have. A reverse roadmap.

Roadmap

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.

Strategy

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

I have been helping her reshape how product management is perceived in the company by building a solid product strategy, team structure, roadmap, processes, and more. When we got down to the very details of specific examples that H. Make it as concrete as possible, using as many recent examples as you can so they can relate.

User Testing

BrainMates

JUNE 17, 2025

A leadership team wants sharper focus. Tie them to planning, roadmaps, rituals, and retros. Visibility isn’t just for leadership. It’s time to move from box-ticking to behaviour-shifting. Start small. Anchor to strategy. Measure what matters. Because OKRs only work when they’re lived — not just listed. Create shared ownership.

Systems Review

BrainMates

JULY 2, 2025

Real-life examples show how a freemium launch becomes a success story with the right structure, mindset, and tools like monday dev by monday.com Because in today’s product world, collaboration isn’t a nice-to-have — it’s a strategic advantage. This is where strong leadership and the right tools can make all the difference.

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

Let’s break down exactly how to execute each step with real examples from leaders I’ve worked with who have used this approach to dramatically increase their compensation. ” and “Whose opinion does the leadership team value most?” ” The answers might surprise you. Understand what drives them.

Development Team Review

UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. One example is design equifinality the idea that there can be multiple valid ways to solve a design task. This dynamic can play out on any scalefrom a minor UX improvement to a roadmap-level epic discussion.

Technical Advisors

The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 27, 2025

Its not just about the roadmap, or the backlog, or hitting those OKRs. Example: In a planning meeting when an engineers venting about scope creep, hold back and let them get it out. Final Thought Empathy isnt just a soft skill for leadership checklists. You know what they dont tell you when you become a product manager?

Product Management

BrainMates

AUGUST 4, 2025

Covering transferable skills, self-awareness, talent mobility, and more, it’s a roadmap for building resilient and engaged product teams ready for the future of work. This frequently comes from the example and culture set by leadership.

Customer Experience

Gainsight

JULY 17, 2025

Whether you’re just starting your AI journey or looking to level up, the roadmap to agentic scale is within reach. Take, for example, the Staircase AI Agent , which scans emails, meetings, Slack conversations, product usage data, and support tickets to uncover hidden risks or sentiments.

Leadership

Gainsight

JULY 31, 2025

What I love about both of these examples is how seamlessly they integrate into the day-to-day flow. During Pulse Unplugged, we talked about formats like onboarding cohorts, roadmap previews, and industry-specific workshops. That combo is what helps you make a compelling case to leadership – and improve your programs in real time.

Customer Experience

UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

That initiative was a calculated yet risky investment from leadership, and the controlling group of the organization. It was accomplished by a deeply committed team, where representatives of various groups made this endeavor a priority for what they were aiming to fulfill on their roadmap. Reality check.

Research Software

People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 24, 2025

In today's newsletter, we'll explore why thoughtfulness is an undervalued leadership strength, especially in the wild world of AI and human collaboration. Subscribe now AI Revolution: Unleashing Our Human Superpowers We're witnessing a fundamental shift in leadership. For example, one engineer paused after a new PM asked "What else?"

Leadership

Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Product Talk (through our training business) and Hope Gurions Fearless Product (through her leadership coaching program) are often brought in to help with these transformations. Tweet This Let’s talk through some examples of each of these. They could have heard it from a member of their executive team, from their leadership team.

Product Research

UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

For example, in cybersecurity, being a cybersec engineer or researcher is a core role with better long-term career prospects, while a UI designer’s job is typically a supportive role that mostly focuses on maintaining the app’s UI. There are also examples of temporary core roles. 22–27 (4) Russell L.

User Testing

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. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

Roadmap

Mind the Product

AUGUST 28, 2017

Our integration with ticket platform Eventbrite is one prime example, as is our own mobile app.” Roadmaps are important: “They enable others to get lined up, marketing efforts, client/customer support efforts. He believes in “eating your own dog food” to the extent that “we’ve built our own products on the back of our own API.

Analytic Tools

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Overview of the Learning Roadmap. Like a modern product roadmap, a learning roadmap states the specific outcomes or benefits you’d like to achieve to become a more competent product person, and it captures them in form of learning goals. To make these ideas more concrete, let’s look at a sample learning roadmap.

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[ It is therefore called assigned leadership.[

Leadership

Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Empowered product teams, for example, are asked to deliver outcomes each quarter. This can create tension between product teams and your company leadership or stakeholders —some argue that they can’t coordinate work with the rest of the company without these dates. Question: How do you respond to requests for date-based roadmaps?

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

The following tips will help you with this: Empathise with the individuals and make an effort to understand their perspectives, needs, and interest, for example, by practicing active listening. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product.

Leadership

Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

The following tips will help you with this: Empathise with the individuals and make an effort to understand their perspectives, needs, and interest, for example, by practicing active listening. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product.

Leadership

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. Sharing the four leadership motions with us is Janice Fraser.

Leadership

The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

This can be done for example by involving the developers and product owners in the user research, the wireframes assessment and the usability testing sessions. A new leadership role is also a good opportunity to assess and evaluate whether you have the right skill sets and resource capacity in your team. Resource management.

Leadership

Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. While I’d like to encourage you to involve development team members and key stakeholders in the visioning, strategising, and roadmapping work, you should lead these activities with the aim to maximise the value your product creates.

Leadership

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? Technical debt can be valued in terms of “future change” outcomes like improved delivery velocity or better platform scalability, for example. Why is that?

Customer Experience