Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Roadmapping has become a political problem. Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I’ve been a product leader for over a decade. 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. Why share now?

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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. In following this approach, you are taking an important and impactful step toward product-centricity.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 31, 2024

Shaping a product strategy involves both. Your product won’t spring into existence fully formed and ready to compete like Athena emerging fully armored from the head of Zeus. ” To tease apart the difference between shaping releases vs. sequencing work, it helps to contrast two different ways to think about timing.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

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. There was even an emerging set of courses focused on product leadership. Take product roadmaps for example.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Output-Based Planning. You can align on direction.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. We started by defining the objectives I wanted to achieve over the course of my 6 months in the product mentor program, an important exercise at the beginning of any mentor partnership.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

Paul acquired the breadth of experience through his leadership roles at San Francisco Bay Area startups and high-growth companies. He helps rapidly scaling early-stage startups craft their Product Strategy and everything related to it. I eventually got fired as a product manager. Not really.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Said another way, this week’s new “must do” items look like a year’s worth of additions to the roadmap.  ”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing.    The corporate strategy, which the product strategy supports. 

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As you might have noticed from reading this blog, I share many stories related to my personal relationships as a means to talk about product leadership. Often it’s because so much of product leadership is about relationships. At work, things are much more complex.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. Impact mapping allows businesses to make sure their product strategy is aligned with business goals and that all stakeholders are on the same page.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

How can you take responsibility for the vision and shape the future of your product when you don’t control strategy at the corporate level?”. Developing a Product Strategy. Product Vision. But product vision alone is not enough. Product Strategy. Read five steps to a winning product strategy.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. It can also get leadership buy-in to where a team is heading overall.”–

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

These exercises build consensus around strategic imperatives. This big-picture exercise may not put everything on the table. Annual planning and the product roadmap. Annual planning determines where we want the product and how we intend to get there, which typically results in a high-level product roadmap.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

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. How Does Product Management Enable Digital Transformation? That’s where product management comes in. The Benefits of Product Management.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

Whether it’s staying on the same page as the development team during a sprint or creating buy-in on the product strategy and roadmap, these solutions streamline communication, minimize confusion, and provide centralized repositories for crucial information. 2022 Budgets Include Hiring. Customer Surveys.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development ! Roadmap Development is a process of discovery, creativity and problem-solving. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." - Sun Tzu. These details are indeed important!

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

At Bain Public, we have learned a lot in the many hours and conversations spent mentoring, advising and consulting in product management. Getting it wrong comes in two forms: building the wrong product and building the product wrong. A well-understood product roadmap aligns behavior within the business.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It also brings a change in how priorities are communicated between different business departments, how the engineering group operates, and it is a huge trust exercise for the leadership, but if used properly, this could unlock superpowers for the company.”. Moreover, theme-based roadmaps provide a timeline.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. 4] As you may have noticed I didn’t list the product backlog.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Did your roadmap change? It doesn’t take a virus to derail a roadmap. With a healthy dose of ongoing measurement and recalibration, product teams should be confident in taking actions with the information they possess and not standing pat. Regular roadmap reviews. Reassert your leadership.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2018

The same holds for product management: When you create a product strategy for the first time, for instance, you are likely to make plenty of mistakes. For instance, invite a colleague to one of your roadmapping workshops or sprint review meetings , or prioritise the product backlog together.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Your customers and prospects don’t live in a vacuum, nor can your product strategy. Implementing competitive intelligence as a strategy helps uncover future opportunities and risks. And you’ll get a sense of their revenues, financial stability, leadership team, board members, and any future acquisition activity.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories. Support from the senior leadership team also shot up. JustGiving Crowdfunding homepage, 2015.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2022

Whether it’s staying on the same page as the development team during a sprint or creating buy-in on the product strategy and roadmap, these solutions streamline communication, minimize confusion, and provide centralized repositories for crucial information. 2022 Budgets Include Hiring. Customer Surveys.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The role did not require a lot of experience in product management because it did not involve developing and managing a product roadmap. Being responsible for a product roadmap typically requires more experience in product management because it is related to developing a product strategy based on company objectives.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

This is the process we go through during and after physical exercise that makes our bodies stronger.). If you’d like to delve more deeply into crisis leadership strategies, I recommend this article from ProductPlan’s Chief Executive Brad Wills: A CEO’s Tips for Resilient Leadership During Challenging Times.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

A solid product strategy takes time to build. Here is the method I use for creating a product strategy that makes sense. When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2019

After wondering how to help those who have trouble developing vision, I came up with these exercises. People learn to list their good qualities when they can’t envision themselves realistically, and it works for a product as well.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Use them to show prototypes of a future state, prospective roadmaps or release plans, competitors tech, pictures of your personas…the list goes on. Answer “why” and “where” for your product, write it down, chat about it, and just trust me on this…your team will thank you.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 3, 2020

Entry level PMs will often work alongside a mid level PM to extract the right insights from the data and to learn about the strategy of the product. Mid Level - Product Manager & Senior Product Manager Responsibilities and Skills In a mid level PM role, responsibilities for owning the product become much larger.

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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? Well, th at’s the role of a product strategy. My favorite definitions of strategy are the simplest I’ve found. A simple representation for our product strategy.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

If you’re ever looking for a think-outside-the-box type of exercise that’ll test your UX chops , this post is for you. so this post allows PMs to put on their product design hats and get thinking like a designer. There’s a common misconception in the product space that agile and planning don’t go hand-in-hand.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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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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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I find that a product walkthrough is often needed when you are trying to make the case to leadership to green-light a new venture based on the strength of your vision for it. All of this is why I find the best way to articulate a strategy is as a set of product/market fit hypotheses that you are constantly iterating on and refining.

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