Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

There was even an emerging set of courses focused on product leadership. Or PMs at larger established tech firms might see great PMs at work within their company, but they struggled to reverse engineer just how to recreate their success for themselves. Take product roadmaps for example.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Without going into actual project-related detail, any sync I have in the AM would fall in the “catch-up,” “quick sync” or “review bad livesites” category. Sometimes I’ll still be in meetings, as there are occasional team or leadership calls scheduled for lunch. If I went into the office: 8:30 AM is when I wake up.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2023

I’ve been at a number of product events recently where conversations turned to fractional work, joining or launching a startup, or simply taking time off due to a lack of opportunity in one’s current situation. ” It’s not a roadmap of what to build. We came up with a few potential factors.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See  Or letting one big customer define our technical architecture.  Or Horribly wasteful and frustrating!  At Enough preamble.  Here’s

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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.  On the go-to-market (GTM) side, I see a lot of “ roadmap amnesia.” Shiny

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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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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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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

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. A new leadership role is also a good opportunity to assess and evaluate whether you have the right skill sets and resource capacity in your team.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

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. You can read more reviews and even buy the book with my affiliate link: [link] 1. I hardly imagine Product Managers with autocratic leadership thriving in this environment.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? So that’s me. Christy : Awesome.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. Did your roadmap change? It doesn’t take a virus to derail a roadmap. It doesn’t take a virus to derail a roadmap. Regular roadmap reviews. Reassert your leadership. Yet it’s also vital to exercise empathy. Were KPIs met?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Digital transformation is “the use of technology to radically improve performance or reach of enterprises”, according to an MIT and Capgemini white paper. Gartner says : “Digital business transformation is the process of exploiting digital technologies and supporting capabilities to create a robust new digital business model”.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. She had many ideas about how to improve marketing tactics but did not have the technical skills to either make the necessary changes on the web or create better solutions using technology.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Some will be more important than agreeing on the “sign-in” button’s color or where to order lunch for the team-building exercise. But not at the expense of disrupting your entire product roadmap. There’s all that technical debt we should be tackling instead. The optimistic salesperson.

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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. Even though the lists get very long, reviewing them regularly enables us to evolve or amalgamate ideas overtime to create some very successful experiments.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

The most obvious way to be output-oriented is to give your teams a roadmap that lists features and release dates and ask them to deliver against that roadmap. The value of this approach is that rather than having all of the decision-making power come from the leadership team, it gets diffused to the teams closest to your customers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. 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.

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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. How big is our technical debt? Every time we do this, we are reminded that this inclusive process isn’t just a feel-good exercise.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Product specialization : “very tailored to solve a specific technical or business need” that becomes complicated quickly. Ultimately, Ben and Blair suggest involving designers early on, ideally already when creating your strategy and roadmap, because, and I agree with that, “good design takes time”. How are we doing? strategy?—?

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Besides that, the triad leadership can either report to the CEO, Chief Product Officer (CPO), or a VP/Head of Product Development. Who does technical leadership? You can use this exercise for defining lines between roles. I worked at a company where leadership wasn’t happy with how projects were managed.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Sprint Reviews and user interviews are also well suited to improve collaboration and communication over time. Proven examples are user story mapping or product roadmap planning workshops. (It At a later stage, typical agile events, such as Sprint Reviews, also work well by demonstrating what value the Scrum Team created for them.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Open 24 hours a day, the site was user-friendly, encouraging browsers to post their own reviews of books and offering discounts, personalized recommendations, and searches for out-of-print books.”. Amazon is a multinational technology company known worldwide as a mega e-commerce marketplace. Britannica.com ). to get a feature done.”.

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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 !

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

" "Here is another one-line ticket written by non-technical users who don't understand their problem or our system.  We'll  And execs can't spend 70 hours reviewing 70 sets of product docs.  So "  "Let me walk you through my roadmapping algorithm."

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

There’s no direct, straight line between a research exercise and the balance sheet. These firms make other tech titans such as Facebook ($7 billion), Oracle ($5.6 But for software and tech firms, the runway is seldom that long, and executives, board members, and investors will be expecting results much sooner. Product Roadmaps.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

You must elevate these business-critical strategic components of your product leadership role into your schedule on a regular–even daily–basis. Before we go any further discussing the activities of a strategic product manager, let’s review the key parts of developing and implementing a product strategy. Product Roadmap.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . The Agile Leadership Team. HBR article setup. Balance from the Top.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Review design. Review sprint work in retro. Use them to show prototypes of a future state, prospective roadmaps or release plans, competitors tech, pictures of your personas…the list goes on. Oh, and if you are a feature product lead, you can totally do this same exercise for just your feature! Write spec.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products margins and revenue generating impact. Product Roadmap.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. 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. Support from the senior leadership team also shot up.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

Product managers with technical skills such as SQL or technical stack are in high demand, so highlight them in your resume. Show off your Product Manager (technical) skills. Ex of PM skills – Creating Product Vision, Roadmaps, GTM plan, collaboration, Data Analytics, Wireframing, etc.” Specialty technologies.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Hope also does some leadership coaching with her own company, Fearless Product. I know that Hope and I hear a lot from the teams that we work with that most product people are really eager and they’re really diligent. It’s typically a product manager, a design lead, and a tech lead. They want to do the right thing.

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