Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2019

What Product Roadmaps Are (in a Nutshell). To start with, let’s briefly recap what a product roadmap is. I view a roadmap as a high-level plan that states specific benefits a product should provide over a certain timeframe, which may range from six to 12 months. Ensure the Roadmap is Realistic. Why Dates Are Beneficial.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But for enterprise product teams, the most common area where that opportunity and reality clash is roadmapping. While common processes and templates should be the lifeblood of any effective enterprise operation, 50% of large product teams (those with 50+ members) cite keeping roadmaps and processes consistent as their top growing pain.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The title “product manager” is often misapplied within the technology sector, leading to a disconnect between role expectations and actual responsibilities. I am not in favor of assigning home exercises. This involves evaluating existing solutions and identifying the unique pain point we aim to alleviate.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

My first year out of college, I was working at South Coast Repertory Theatre, which had a really complex audio automation system by Meyer Sound. Because it was a permanent install, we also became a beta test site for new software updates, so I was filing bug reports and giving feedback and opinions about the software.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 7, 2022

It is a very meta experience to build the ProductPlan platform as a go-to central hub for everything product management-related. Through this effort, we created a very exciting and strategic annual roadmap. And what better way to do that than a customer-facing roadmap? Why we built a customer-facing roadmap.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

To achieve that they use a range of techniques, like review research, user interviews, feedback , or product usage tracking. They also work with product managers on the product roadmap , carry out experiments to validate ideas and help identify minimum viable features for the MVP. These are not one-off exercises. Book the demo!

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Product teams use the model to evaluate ideas, prioritize features , select tools , assess risks, or allocate resources, to name just a few. Finally, compare the scores and choose the features to include in the roadmap. In contrast to unweighted scoring, not all criteria are equally important. This is reflected in the weighting values.

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ProductPlan

MAY 16, 2023

ProductPlan has consistently seen changes over the past 12 months, and our very own product roadmap has been a part of that journey. We’ve seen a little bit of everything, and the customer-facing roadmap has been critical during these changes. Five questions to answer For this exercise, we go all the way back to square one.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

But grappling with the influx of ideas and instituting a system to handle them is essential because they sometimes have much to offer, even if it’s not right at the moment. Product managers already ingest, parse, and make sense of feedback from numerous channels , so it’s a natural fit. You want to keep them coming. Step 3: Reviewed.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” -Ken I worked in healthcare technology at the time. I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. So, if you are in that situation, demand coaching and productive feedback. Ken Blanchard.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

If you were to ask me whether you, as a product manager , should you always listen to market feedback? Henry Ford is famously quoted as eschewing market feedback by saying that if he’d listened to his customers, they’d have asked for faster horses. Common B2B Feedback Traps. My answer would be yes, definitely. Here’s why.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But the quality of your product matters: It directly impacts your ability to achieve strategic product goals and make your products successful: Technical debt makes it hard to experiment with new ideas, release new features, and quickly respond to user feedback. [1]. You intentionally slow down, so to speak, to go faster afterwards.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Some mentioned that while they had worked as a PM at startups for several years, they felt they still lacked the skills and tools to reach the next level in their career growth. Take product roadmaps for example. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” You also have a mobile app that sends similar messages via push notifications. When Teresa started working with the team at Airship, she led them through the “How to Make Toast” exercise to help clarify orchestration.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

a pre-meeting) stakeholders to ensure the prioritized solutions will work for the user as well as the business, it is highly unlikely that your desired product outcome will be achieved. Simply put, collaborative product discovery work is a useful communication tool that you cannot afford to do alone in isolation from others.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Today, more and more businesses are looking for product managers specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. AI product management professionals help businesses profit from these markets by overseeing the planning, development, and success of AI products and innovative solutions.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What tools do you have at your disposal? Perform a competitive analysis of the currently available solutions to the user problem. Carry out customer discovery to validate the problem and your solution. Develop and prioritize the roadmap to give structure to product development. What’s product planning?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It is also good exercise when you live near a mountain. When I returned to it later, I started with good old mental gymnastics rather than turning to Google, Bing, CHATGPT, or some other magical AI tool. At that moment, he took out his phone and opened the Uber app, a service he frequently used in San Francisco.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Customer feedback is the lifeblood of customer-centricity. It’s impossible to create and improve products without understanding customers’ experience, especially when customers have unengaged and do not provide feedback. But you can’t limit your feedback collection to the customers who are proactively offering it up.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 29, 2020

Measuring customer sentiment, or CSAT, is the focus for most large brands to understand customer happiness and where to shift their product roadmaps. Regularly taking the pulse of your mobile customers’ emotion by gathering feedback, analyzing behavior, and acting on insights will help you provide a better overall customer experience.

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Userpilot

MARCH 4, 2021

Are you looking for customer feedback software for your SaaS business? We’ve compiled this list of the best customer feedback tools and sorted them by the key business criteria you’ll need to consider when making your decision. What is Customer Feedback Software? What is customer feedback software?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Over her career, she’s worked on almost every product area—from front end to backend, desktop to mobile apps, buyer to seller, and discovery to payments. Prioritization is mostly a rational exercise. Be flexible about adjusting your roadmap as you learn. Here’s what Lauren had to say! Q: How do you measure success?

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It’s easy to think AI tools are a fad, too complicated, or unlikely to have real impact on your job. A big thank-you to Dan Shipper and Dennis Yang for providing feedback on this post. your roadmap), and then adjust the capabilities it can leverage to complete your task (e.g. But you’re wrong. What are GPTs?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

We’re confident this won’t help people game our system, but it will give you the best chance to show us your strengths. Our principles help us make decisions about strategy, roadmaps, design, and more. Co-design a solution to a hypothetical (non-Intercom) problem with a member of our team. Intimidated about creating a portfolio?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Thousands of “day in the life” videos generate millions of views across various social platforms, most notably TikTok. I myself have been guilty of producing one on the aforementioned app, but there are several factors which I never called out : I chose a really busy day to make the video. Me at the Microsoft office in Bellevue, WA.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2020

Despite the influx of ideas and feedback, we don’t get tricked into wavering from our disciplined prioritization processes. Our job entails creating product roadmaps based on what’s doable and gives the product the most bang for its buck. But how can we be sure we’re making the right calls and roadmapping what matters most?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2019

We are technology people! Use the Right Tools. Polling tools especially can be huge time savers, from figuring out when to have a last-minute retrospective, to settling once and for all whether or not hot dogs are sandwiches (spoiler alert: they aren’t ). Video conference tools – Zoom, Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting, etc.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But the reason it resonated so much with readers was its powerful core finding – our brain has two very distinct modes, or systems, of thought: System 1 (fast, automatic, and impulsive) and System 2 (slow, conscious, and deliberative). Rule 1: Know when to lean on your fast System 1 reactions. Why does it matter?

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Mind the Product

JULY 5, 2017

Prad makes sure that journalists can get photos and videos from phones to the various editing platforms and upload the final content on the website. He decided he wanted to work in technology after finishing an architecture degree. Indeed, his proudest moment as a product manager is linked to a potential system failure.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 1, 2023

Product Concept Development This is the first exercise to go through with your team in which you’ll examine what you know about your key personas. It’s time to examine the competitive landscape and find out if other companies already have similar solutions or if your target customers use different products to solve their problems.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

It was a mind expanding exercise and set a clear structure for me to rethink what is really the differentiation factor in our product. . It is a good tool to have and can be used over and over again. . It could also start during sales process when customers need modification and addition to the solution.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It’s useful in the product development context many of us live and breathe every day, including product roadmapping. Why use process mapping for roadmapping? If you’re not looking to change how things are done, it might seem like overkill to go through the trouble of mapping out your product roadmapping process.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

Creating a user persona is not a set-it-and-forget-it exercise. Note: We’ll assume your company sells B2B SaaS software. Let’s say that when you drafted the bio for your persona, you had learned that the typical user of your B2B app would be using it in an office. Users’ needs change. Their companies’ priorities evolve.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

Here are some areas to consider when making your 2022 requests: Product Stack Tools for 2022 Budgets. Investing in tools for the product team commanded the most significant share of product team budgets in our 2021 survey. Accelerated by the shift to distributed teams and remote working, these tools have become invaluable resources.

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