The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

There are many frameworks available on building products and the approach varies individual to individual. The path and the steps to reach the destination is defined through a product roadmap. Hence roadmapping is a crucial exercise which can make or break your product. Product Roadmap. Product Strategy.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I wanted to share with you the framework I use when doing this. I review strategies and roadmaps. Then we put together a roadmap for change, and I check in with them along the way as they transform. Others are SaaS companies that are scaling or have scaled recently and want to ensure they are doing it in the best way.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

It can be tempting to ignore people issues and focus on product-related tasks like reviewing the product strategy , updating the product roadmap , and refining the product backlog. The following sections explain how you can apply the framework. Recently she even missed one without telling you in advance.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is Product Roadmap?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Describing how things worked at this stage, Claire says, “We were facing the classic roadmaps decided by the founders, ‘fights’ to push users’ voices in the decisions, and some frustrations of projects that we worked on for several weeks but never ended up going live because of ‘bad’ prioritizations or just opinion changes.”

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. As Chandra shares below, his framework sits on top of the best strategy wisdom out there (e.g. So we teamed up to make that happen.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

“Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. Act II: Building a visual framework.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2022

I knew I had to apply the framework I had used in understanding my previous users to users in this new industry. In my interview, I came up with lots of examples of how I could use that framework for scenarios that would apply to this company. Having a solid understanding of that framework landed the job. [8:21] Next, execute.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. 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.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Product-Market Fit Pyramid is the key framework, and it has five layers that build on each other. I use an importance vs. satisfaction framework to define how well-served or underserved each need is. Then do ROI analysis and create a roadmap. When I do this exercise, people get so fired up. Target customer 2.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

So, that aside and without trying to fit the subject for a long book into a short article, I will share a framework to help you anchor as you transition toward a product-centric organization. A framework to ensure your strategic plan and long-term growth plan are product-driven. There is no doubt this will be painful the first time.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I have defined the below dimensions as a cohesive framework. The frameworks (image 1 &2) highlight the approach to take the product into the market. Ensure to keep revisiting the framework from time to time and iterate it based on your learnings and measures. What are those 8 dimensions for startup onboarding strategy?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

I want to address such topics here and show how product roadmaps can help the team collaboratively gather the pieces of work and have a view of long term desired outcomes that afterwards are going to be broken down into sprints, not the other way round. It shows a long term planning for the specific product.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In doing so I hope to help demystify what you actually do in the role, provide a framework for assessing what dimensions of the role you are already good at delivering against, and opportunities for improvement on each. Design: Product Roadmap. Probably the most visible aspect of the product manager role is driving the product roadmap.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

To help hiring managers and recruiters, like myself, decide whether or not to interview you, it can be a great exercise to treat your resume like a professional product. This could include different tests you’ve run, quantitative analyses that have helped you make a better choice, or user research that has changed the course of your roadmap.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 24, 2020

Everyone’s going to be a fan of prioritization frameworks that simplify and streamline the process. So, what are the most popular prioritization frameworks of 2020? We also discovered MoSCoW, Story Mapping, RICE, Kano, and using multiple frameworks were the most popular selections for prioritization. out of 5 score. Confidence.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

All of this can be translated into a simple framework (based on the Kellogg model ): Now that we’ve established this framework, we can apply it to a few examples to illustrate just a few of the many ways in which designers can have impact. A good exercise is to ask yourself the below questions, then ask your manager the same ones.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Version 1 Products Need a Vision and Strategic Roadmap The easiest way to avoid the version 1 product dilemma is to describe what the product will ultimately help customers accomplish, why that outcome is valuable, and in pecking order, the biggest obstacles standing in the way of that outcome. The strategic roadmap is the next layer down.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

I am not in favor of assigning home exercises. Candidates are expected to engage with the question critically, asking clarifying questions, applying analytical frameworks, and building on their assumptions despite not being market experts on the topic at hand.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

As you complete the exercise above for each issue and product opportunity, thoroughly document your findings. As your team lays out the product roadmap for a period of time (quarter, cycle, sprint, etc.), After our product team finishes the 9-Blocker exercise we start shopping it around to the rest of the organization.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 7, 2022

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. In fact, customer interviews play a key role in what gets prioritized and put on our roadmap. How we built our customer-facing roadmap.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Roadmapping (with C. The Essentials 102 workshop (Rosemary King) is for seasoned product managers who want to expose their ideas and processes to some fresh air, rethink strategy and learn new frameworks that help structure decisions. Todd Lombardo). Data Visualization (with Stefanie Posavec). You can learn more and sign up here.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But we are also expected to perform a series of System 2 tasks, such as carefully considering a product roadmap, framing user problems, undertaking strategic analysis, and evaluating different possible features. Structure your work with frameworks that embrace constraints to help System 2 to naturally take over.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. When reviewing a roadmap with the product team, there are six points I always look for.

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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. Career Transition Compound Effect Framework At the heart of successful career transitions lies what I call the Career Transition Compound Effect (CTCE).

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. Organizing a Collaborative Roadmapping Meeting: A 10-Step Process.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 30, 2025

Here's a framework I use with my coaching clients: Tactical thinking : How do we solve this problem? Try this exercise: Take your current roadmap and ask "Why?" Consider drafting a strategy yourself, using frameworks like the Strategy Stack. It's not just about getting things done. three times for each initiative.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These could come from your organization or you can use a ready framework like RICE or ICE. Finally, compare the scores and choose the features to include in the roadmap. What is the difference between the unweighted and weighted scoring framework? Here’s how you apply the framework, step by step.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

SnapComms adopted Brainmates’ Product Management framework to facilitate a market-driven way of thinking company-wide, and to equip their Product Team with a repeatable process to take the most valuable ideas to market fast. The 10 steps we followed to embed the Product Management framework. Where do you start? What matters most?

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Product Talk

JULY 19, 2023

And if you’re working within the continuous discovery framework, there’s a good chance you’re already using the opportunity solution tree to record and track many of these activities. Without the framework, I was constantly bouncing between things.” And the end result of this exercise?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. To make these sessions most valuable we mixed in some blue-sky brainstorming with some themed discussions and group exercises to generate ideas in a certain area.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Just to give us a bit more of an idea of what we’re working with here today, I thought it’d be nice if we did a quick exercise. Petra: Quickly the question is, how do we deal with people that are not catching up with the methodologies and framework and the market as product leads? Petra: But we know it’s not.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Noisy customers When it comes to your product roadmap, the customer is most definitely NOT always right , especially when they ask for specific features.

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Mind the Product

MAY 4, 2018

Roughly every third attendee chose to spend the pre-conference day as part of a smaller group in one of the five workshop sessions on Stakeholder Management, Roadmapping, Product Management Foundations, Visual Thinking and User Story Mapping. Blind-Date Dinners. All talks will be published here on Mind the Product over the next few weeks.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2018

That is what I´m calling “magical framework”. So, in this post I want to do the opposite: I won´t give you one more “magical framework”. In the image below you can see a simple exercise that will help you building this! Your goals are not your roadmap Goals and roadmap are (totally) different things.

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