ProductPlan

JUNE 7, 2022

Through this effort, we created a very exciting and strategic annual roadmap. With so many impactful initiatives planned out for the year, we knew it was important to communicate with our customers and keep them updated on our product strategy. And what better way to do that than a customer-facing roadmap?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

However, they are intended to guide and protect- to guide and protect the future of the product and the company. 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. Why share now?

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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 13, 2024

As the Head of Product at ProductPlan, I spend a lot of time talking to product teams and learning about their experiences throughout the product development process. Product teams are responsible for creating a strategy and explaining the “why” behind the product.

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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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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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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

MAY 19, 2022

Have your product strategy team lead an exercise to prioritize those opportunities based on the value both from the buyer/user perspective and revenue potential. Align the prioritized list to your roadmap with engineering to identify delivery timing based on capacity and in-flight work that may be impacted.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The influence you exercise should therefore be a positive one, see my article Should Product People be Servant-Leaders? Involve people in product decisions. You might do this, for example, by running collaborative product strategy reviews. What’s more, there is not one right way to lead. Admit if you are wrong.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 26, 2021

Typically, when brands claim this, it’s more of a marketing technique and less of an actual pillar in their product strategy. Most brands today may think they build products around their customers’ needs and feedback, but in reality, they only hear from less than one percent of their customer base.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Take product roadmaps for example. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps. This is due to the very process by which the roadmap is developed. Some teams do a team brainstorm and voting exercise to develop their roadmap.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2020

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? In order to roadmap what matters, it means limiting what gets attention and energy. That’s what they pay us for.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It can easily be backed up with the lean concept of building strategies, measuring impacts, and learning to improve. This brings sustainability when strategies or decisions need to be pivoted to respond to the market changes. The frameworks (image 1 &2) highlight the approach to take the product into the market.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

So, how does a product manager take ownership of more than just backlog management? 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. Product Strategy.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 17, 2017

Roadmapping isn’t an exercise reserved solely for product teams—or rather, it shouldn’t be. Roadmaps are communication tools and are perfect vehicles for teams of all kinds to share their priorities and goals with the rest of the organization. The product roadmap. Give our product roadmap template a whirl.

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ProductPlan

MAY 25, 2021

Product Strategy is Important. One of the most important roles of a product manager (PM) is setting the product strategy. The strategy, by way of a roadmap, is the document that drives team alignment. Well, let’s start by making sure you have a strategy that works first. Neither do its users.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 2, 2022

If you see a product feature or other type of item on an idea backlog, you can assume the following. The product team has not rejected the idea. They have not added the idea to the product roadmap. Idea backlogs can include ideas for developing new products or improving existing products. XLS file.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Product planning is the iterative process that prepares every stage of the product development life cycle, from the initial idea through launch and further development. Product planning focuses on the customer and business outcomes that the product should achieve. What is NOT product planning. Want to see how?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

Our principles help us make decisions about strategy, roadmaps, design, and more. For example, we might really admire your visual design work, but we’ll also want to see how you influence product strategy, define the problem, understand the system, collaborate with others, and more. Intimidated about creating a portfolio?

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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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ProductPlan

JANUARY 18, 2023

After the exercise, regardless of exactly what shape your roadmap is in, everyone should have a better idea of what success looks like and how to get there together. Connect to the company vision Annual planning provides an opportunity to take a beat and ensure that each product and the company are still moving in the same direction.

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

In this post, I look at the value of asking great questions, cover a few strong sample questions and suggest some exercises to help you generate your own insightful questions. Do not go into a product management interview without preparing questions for your interviewer. This is not a “one size fits all” exercise.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

It contains subsections with steps that one should go through while building products. Product Strategy. As a first step, PM needs to define the strategy for the product. A well defined product strategy provides insights into the deep customer problems that your product is trying to address.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping allows businesses to make sure their product strategy is aligned with business goals and that all stakeholders are on the same page. Impact maps make roadmap management and prioritization easier. Product managers will find impact mapping useful in high complexity/high uncertainty situations.

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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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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Ideation is an intentional exercise to generate a high volume of ideas for a business’s products, services, and customer experience. Unlike “free-for-all” brainstorming sessions, these exercises remain structured and guided by a product team member. What is ideation? Why is ideation important?

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

Remember Ted Lasso and involved your team in the exercise. How to Define Your Product Strategy You’re working through Marty Cagan’s pyramid or maybe you’re a fan of the Reforge Product Strategy Stack. You’ve read the article above and have your product vision. Yep, twelve.

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bpma ProductHub

MARCH 20, 2017

In a recent exercise with a product team, I challenged them to list the markets where the company could potentially sell. So before putting out your next roadmap, review the markets you are going after and pick the ones where you are most likely to succeed. If you have too many markets, you may have lost focus.

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

To start this exercise, I didn’t worry about if we would have money and people to make it happen. You don’t have to be attached to a particular tool, but I used Miro to help to do that for this exercise. Since a product manager is not an actual manager of anyone, people have to trust and understand the vision you provide them.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

It’s a mature startup, with a number of products in the market, a leader in some categories and building up nicely in others. As is almost always the case, what seems to be execution gaps turn out to be product strategy gaps, and so we started with creating a clear product strategy.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This is why developing your product sense remains so important. This might lead some product professionals to bypass their own spidey senses in favor of simply facilitating prioritization exercises. Moreover, they may want to execute a product strategy created by the committee. Practice makes perfect.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

He helps rapidly scaling early-stage startups craft their Product Strategy and everything related to it. He also helps middle market and scrappy companies generate new product strategies for significant, sustainable growth. If you really want to work with us, we’re willing to give you a 30% discount on the product.

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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. The Benefits of Product Management. Prioritisation of activities and changes. This talk from #mtpcon speaker C.

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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. Widening the Scope from Solutions to Opportunities. Tweet This.

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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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