Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Here’s an example output: Six months ago, I didn’t think this could work. You can implement a similar approach in any area where you provide consistent feedback, such as PRDs, presentations, or roadmaps. But I’ve learned that LLMs are only as effective as the prompts they’re given.

User Testing

BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

For example, you may have misaligned roadmaps or inconsistent feature prioritisation that doesn’t reflect customer expectations. For product managers: Clear alignment between product vision and execution is essential. For product managers: Closing this gap requires strong cross-functional leadership.

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

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. Let competitor insights sharpen your thinking, not narrow your vision. Are we ahead, on par, or lagging?

Data Visualization

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.

Strategy

UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

For example, product redesign will help us improve engagement rate by 30%. Example of pain points that offline shopper experiences. Vision and strategygoals A vision statement should answer the following question: Where are we heading and why? Bad vision statements To be the best eCommerce platform in theworld.

Product Research

Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

Try Usersnap for Product Discovery Try Usersnap Now Connecting Product Discovery to the PDLC Product discovery is a crucial stage in the PDLC that involves: understanding customer needs identifying market opportunities defining the product vision It is the foundation of the PDLC , as it sets the direction for the entire product development process.

Product Research

UX Planet

JULY 18, 2025

That said, having a plan is important — especially for designers and developers, as it helps align the vision and lay the groundwork for future features. Our investors weren’t used to this iterative approach — they wanted a one- to two-year roadmap. For example, I noticed high traffic to the registration page but very few completions.

Transportation

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. A robust roadmap is not handed down, it’s co-created.

Product Research

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

BrainMates

JUNE 17, 2025

A simple OKR example might be: Objective: Improve user engagement Key Result 1: Increase daily active users from 5,000 to 7,500 Key Result 2: Boost feature adoption by 25% Key Result 3: Reduce churn by 10% When used well, OKRs give teams clarity, focus, and a shared understanding of what success looks like.

Systems Review

UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

For example, AI-driven customer support systems, like those used by HSBC, ensure quick and branded interactions, and Revoluts social media campaigns resonate with their target audience by blending their unique tone with actionable content. Take, for example, the Fintech brand identity of Revolut or Stripe. billion in annualrevenue.

Reporting Tools

UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

For example: P01: Jane — Onboarding The above signals Test Participant 1 , Interviewer Jane , on the theme of Onboarding. For example, obvious enhancements can be framed as quick wins that deliver tangible results while aligning with broader business goals. For example: “75% of Users struggled with filtering options.”

Data Visualization

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. ” This led to an engaging brainstorming session with the CEO about product vision. Why did you decide to hire for this role right now vs. waiting?

Development Team Review

UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2025

It provides the overarching vision that determines which designs are worth pursuing. To illustrate these risks, consider a real-world example from Shakuros portfolio: the creation of Navi Africa, an African travel concierge app. On the other hand, UX strategy delves into the rationale behind decisions. Why include certain features?

Feedback Software

Centercode

JUNE 11, 2025

Help them see how usability issues connect to roadmap priorities. Example: “Lisa gave up after trying to connect Slack three times. Example: “Multiple testers failed to connect Slack. Example: “This integration issue has already delayed one customer pilot. Nearly one-third of testers dropped off at the same step.

User Testing

Gainsight

APRIL 11, 2025

Combining a smart foundational strategy with execution via a community platform will help you bring your community vision to life. For example, who will handle the support questions that are raised in the online forum? Let’s dive in. Define Your Communitys Purpose Establish clear objectives that align with your business goals.

Customer Feedback

Modus Create

MAY 30, 2025

For example, health organizations use AI-driven models to predict patient responses to treatment, enabling more personalized medicine. With tools like PathAI and Zebra Medical Vision , AI can now analyze radiology images faster and more accurately than many human experts. TURN AI IDEAS INTO ACTION AI is revolutionizing life sciences.

Analytic Tools

Gainsight

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Why We Made the Switch In 2023, we acquired Northpass (now Gainsight CE ), with the vision of creating a more unified and empowering learning experience for our customers. For example, by integrating our academy with Gainsight PX, we can deliver personalized in-product engagements that guide customers to our academy for personalized courses.

Feedback Software

Gainsight

JULY 17, 2025

During Gainsight’s recent webinar, Reaching Agentic Maturity: The Path to Agentic Scale , Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, and Brent Krempges, CCO of Gainsight, laid out a compelling vision for the future of AI agents in scaling customer retention and growth. This is the foundation but only scratches the surface of AI’s potential.

Leadership

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.

User Testing

Gainsight

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Why We Made the Switch In 2023, we acquired Northpass (now Gainsight CE ), with the vision of creating a more unified and empowering learning experience for our customers. For example, by integrating our academy with Gainsight PX, we can deliver personalized in-product engagements that guide customers to our academy for personalized courses.

Feedback Software

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

Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is the Product Vision? The product vision describes the ultimate purpose of a product, the positive change it will bring about. As the product vision, I could then choose “help people eat healthily” or just “healthy eating.” What Makes a Good Product Vision? Who Owns the Product Vision?

Vision

Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

An inspiring vision creates a meaningful purpose for everyone involved in making the product a success including the stakeholders and development team members. If the vision resonates with you, then this will help you do a great job, especially when the going gets tough. The vision pulls you.”. A shared vision unites people.

Vision

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

The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

There are many issues with having clients drive the roadmap. It is much better to think ahead and innovate to create products that fit into the bigger vision of the company. Secondly, waiting for clients to drive the roadmap tends to puts companies in a situation where the backlog becomes too large to practically handle.

Roadmap

Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

But they are good examples of what my team and I have developed together over the last four years at Zalora. At Zalora, we choose a very simple structure for this document: The Vision – The vision lays out the target audience, what they need, and how you plan to deliver a unique offering.

Research Software

Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Empowered product teams, for example, are asked to deliver outcomes each quarter. Question: How do you respond to requests for date-based roadmaps? To provide a bit more context, one CDH community member was being drawn into theoretical debates about date-based roadmaps. At best, creating a date-based roadmap is a waste of time.

Roadmap

The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash There is a misconception that building a roadmap will define a product’s future. But a roadmap doesn’t create a clear view of the future. Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. So why build a roadmap at all? Select a reasonable time range for the roadmap.

Vision

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 make these recommendations more concrete, let’s look at an example. To capture the product strategy, you can use my product vision board.

Product Strategy

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

How does it differ from a product roadmap and how do the two plans relate? And what’s their relationship to the product vision and the product backlog? At the heart of the model in figure 1 are four artefacts: the product vision, the product strategy, the product roadmap, and the product backlog.

Product Strategy

Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Let’s say, for example, that the objective is to “increase engagement.” This is done by using higher-level key results as lower-level objectives, as the following example shows. Figure 2 contains a set of cascading goals: vision, user and business goals, product goals, and sprint goals. Figure 1: Cascading OKRs.

Product Manager

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

Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Some view it as the product vision , others equate it to the product’s value proposition. In figure 1, the vision is the basis for choosing the user and business goals, and the latter create the context for determining the right product goal. Product Goals and the Product Roadmap. Figure 1: The Product Goal in Context.

Product Goals

The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

Vision

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.

Roadmap