Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

For years now loyal readers have been asking me to package up my learnings on product management into a cohesive course on the subject. So in 2020, I took a survey of all the available product management courses out there. There were plenty of courses introducing product management to those new to the role.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

A Product manager tasked to lead and manage her team while still providing product management capabilities; that was my position when I was selected to be part of the product mentorship program and paired with Amanda Ralph, my new mentor. Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. The vision is an exercise in constant evangelization.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 10, 2020

What : “Moving Up Into Product Leadership” remote workshop. The workshop digs into the role of Product Leader ( aka VP of Product Management, Director of Products, Head of Product, Chief Product Officer) including breakouts, group exercises, some skills-building, and a safe format to tough personal/professional questions.

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

He stood out from the other managers as he didn’t come across as a hot head, prima donna or just a total jerk. Yet the principles he espoused are and apply directly to today’s working environment - especially for manager’s seeking to create top performing product teams. Now you bring them to life through a roadmap.

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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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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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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

I am deeply familiar with their common refrains of endless roadmap review meetings, repetitive PowerPoint presentations, and the strain of constant context shifting. Project managers should work closely with product teams to create thoughtful and realistic plans, similar to how engineering teams rely on product expertise for strategy.

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ProductPlan

JULY 30, 2021

Before hiring a product leader, you need to ensure that you understand the most essential product leadership interview questions that can help better inform your hiring decision. . You can teach some product management fundamentals and train them on tools and processes—but you can’t teach curiosity and passion.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. This article is not intended to be a book review, but I used the skills described in this bestseller to link them with our day-to-day Product Management life. Change is the only constant.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2020

What : “Moving Up Into Product Leadership” remote workshop. The INDUSTRY team and I are refitting this day workshop as a live online session – including breakouts and exercises. We’ll dig into the role of Product Leader ( aka VP of Product Management, Director of Products, Head of Product, Chief Product Officer).

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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. So yes, product leaders and managers are at odds with each other. Why share now?

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I talk to a lot of PMs and I ask them (and everyone who subscribes to my newsletter) the same question: what’s your biggest struggle as a Product Manager? 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? Why is that?

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

I’ve been thinking about the challenges of managing product teams by outcomes. Managers struggle with teams asking to be left alone to achieve their outcome because the teams don’t have a history of delivering on outcomes. Teams struggle to communicate progress, because too often, managers micro-manage their work when they do.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2021

When I talk about roadmaps with younger product leaders, I often hear things like “we don’t need one, we are agile” or “why build a roadmap when things will surely change”. The roadmap sets the strategic direction of the company, and when built right it also doesn’t have to change that frequently, despite your agility.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 31, 2024

Too many teams try and use reskinned project-management tools which are helpful when sequencing instead of being helpful when shaping. I’ll demonstrate with a facilitation exercise I ran for a leadership team where we shaped a product – in this case, a bespoke transformation services engagement.

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ProductPlan

MAY 19, 2020

Resilient Leadership During Challenging Times. Anytime a company goes through change management, I believe it’s essential to honor and sustain the elements of what makes the company great—while infusing your own philosophy to move the business forward. Demonstrate flexibility. Trust in your team.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

Once the product-based revenue potential is rolled up across the portfolio, an enterprise number emerges to share with leadership. Of course, that product-driven revenue potential will be negotiated with leadership. Roll up the opportunity roadmaps across the enterprise to understand revenue potential.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 12, 2021

It starts with onboarding As a manager, and especially in a remote setting, make sure you check in often and you make yourself available for teammates. Empower the team As a manager it is important to give trust and autonomy. This is a hard exercise when you have 10 priorities you’d like to list, but it also helps you recenter.

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ProductPlan

MAY 11, 2021

Not every product manager is lucky enough to work with a purpose-built roadmapping tool. But those that do seldom return to their old methods of managing the product roadmap. The great benefits outweigh other roadmapping options such as spreadsheets and presentations.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The focus on profitability really fortifies the importance of collaborative decision making between product managers and the leadership team. As legendary statistician and management consultant W. As product managers, trying to focus the executives on the outcomes by using pillars will help them make the difficult choices.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Want to become an AI product manager? This guide shows you how to prepare for a career in AI product management. Today, more and more businesses are looking for product managers specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. That said, landing a job as an AI product manager is not easy.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’ve all been in that situation where you really enjoy your team and the work you’re doing, but your manager or others up the food chain just don’t get it. They yell, only focus on profits, or micro manage everything you do. Should managers or leaders be nice? Or, they are simply not nice people.

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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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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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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

How organizations can empower product managers Today we are talking about what a product-led organization is, barriers that can prevent an organization from being product-led, and actions to create the product-led organization. He has a great deal of experience that has helped him be well-rounded in product management. Not really.

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SidsAvenue

MAY 31, 2020

Being in Leadership position is all about decision-making. Intuition/Experience To make better sense of data To judge if the data/information is good enough The 2 frameworks we discuss in this post are for managing Information/Data part of the decision making process. It also helps them see the Product Roadmap. How do I use it.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. So, how does a product manager take ownership of more than just backlog management? Product Roadmap. Product Vision.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

What are the benefits of taking on such an initiative, and how does product management give you the best possible chance of success? It’s obvious that some companies see digital transformation as little more than a marketing exercise so that they can be seen as in touch with modern thinking. That’s where product management comes in.

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Arpit Rai

JANUARY 17, 2019

You are likely to use Google Sheets , Microsoft Excel or a project management tool like Asana , JIRA etc. or a product management tool like Aha or RoadMunk or ProductPlan , to maintain a repository of all such ideas. And how does all this tie in to your overall product roadmap, and hence, business goals?

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2018

But with effort, resilience, and patience, as well as the guidance from others, I have managed to become a reasonably skilled writer. This leads to a fixed mindset , where people see themselves as good or bad at something—be it writing, singing, drawing, or product management—and they believe that there is not much they can do about it.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development ! At what price?

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Here are the 3 roles Product Managers must perform to achieve roadmap leadership: The Diplomat It’s not our role to dictate through authority where the product should go. Maintaining this open collaboration becomes essential when we realize that as product managers, we accomplish everything through others.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager. Within two years, Negar was promoted to Marketing Manager. Unfortunately, there were none.

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