BrainMates

JUNE 17, 2025

But too often, we see the signs of “OKR theatre”: Objectives so broad they could belong to any company Key Results focused on activity, not impact Teams forgetting their OKRs by week three Quarterly reviews that feel like report cards, not course corrections Instead of driving clarity and momentum, OKRs become a tick-box exercise.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. The plan or roadmap is basically an ordered list of projects based on some notion of prioritization and sequence of delivery.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 30, 2025

Try this exercise: Take your current roadmap and ask "Why?" Here's a framework I use with my coaching clients: Tactical thinking : How do we solve this problem? Strategic thinking : Is this the right problem to solve? three times for each initiative. If your company lacks a clear strategy, it's an opportunity to step up.

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

Lets explore using atomic notes gathered into the wall-to-wall exercise of affinity diagrams with exploratory research scenario as the focus. Finally, revisit and refine clusters with your team by conducting a “walk the wall” exercise, gathering input from teammates who have worked on the data.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

This is not just a design exercise; its the essence of building long-term trust, loyalty and engagement. UXDAs Digital Experience Branding is essentially a structured roadmap that guides financial institutions through key layers of brand creation and expression in a digital ecosystem.

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UX Planet

MARCH 15, 2025

The truth is, design forces commitment something that many in businessfear: A product roadmap can be vague, leaving room for flexibility andchange. Guide them through convergence and divergence exercises. A vision statement can inspire, but it doesnt require anyone toact. Quarterly goals can shift as priorities change.

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Arkenea

JUNE 28, 2025

The essence of this exercise is not to come with a SaaS website that ends up looking like a replica of any of the existing sites but figuring out what works, what doesn’t and what the recent trends are.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

You can run a powerful exercise, called a premortem, to help discover in advance what is wrong with your plan. Assigning the name of a good thing (like roadmaps) to the bad thing. I’ve listed them for the sake of thoroughness – although I have only once seen this a driver of failure. Usually, other things are also wrong.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

and approach the exercise with a ”Yes, And.” This is where Roman Pichler’s GO Product Roadmap comes in handy. Both the GO Product Roadmap and the User Story Map will describe the same picture but at two different zoom-levels. Start with the most critical user and then add additional users. Exploration. Think about “what if’s.”

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Question: How do you respond to requests for date-based roadmaps? To provide a bit more context, one CDH community member was being drawn into theoretical debates about date-based roadmaps. First, I’d like to address some of the shortcomings of date-based roadmaps. At best, creating a date-based roadmap is a waste of time.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap. A real-life scenario This exercise is not theoretical. The Product Interview?—?A and let me know what you think!

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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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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? Prioritization methods are based upon the notion of Value, but given the sort of questions people struggle with, it clearly is ill-defined for many. Why is that?

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

1 ] In fact, some people argue that product leadership can only be exercised by a management role. Leadership can therefore be exercised without being a boss. The leadership they exercise is called emergent or lateral leadership.[ The leadership they exercise has been assigned or granted by the CEO or another executive.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s Product Roadmap Building Time Again! The end of 2020 is nearing and it’s product roadmap building time again?—?at To make that process as worthwhile as possible, adhering to the following seven product roadmap first principles has proven beneficial in my experience. The classic quote from Lewis Carroll works here, too.)

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 4, 2017

However, this exercise is truly vital in figuring out every stakeholder that could impact the project, how the product backlog must be prioritized, or even highlight the people that we must keep in mind as we execute the project. Again, the columns of the stakeholder map can be fully customized based on your needs.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

Referring to people as product owners who do not manage a product and do not exercise the right ownership is wrong in my mind: It creates confusion and it sets wrong expectations: Someone who owns a product part cannot take on the responsibility of maximising the product’s value and achieving product success.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

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. In my opinion, apart from a bad culture, a bad roadmap can also have a devastating impact on your organizational strategy. Product Roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 7, 2020

I call these goals product or release goals and I capture them on a product roadmap. Use a Product Roadmap to Plan Multiple Releases. The former can be nicely done with a product roadmap. The goals on your product roadmap should tell a compelling story about the likely development of your product.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. Additionally, the team should have ownership of the plans that contain the goals: the product strategy and the product roadmap , as shown in Figure 2 above. [4]

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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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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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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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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

It was a mind expanding exercise and set a clear structure for me to rethink what is really the differentiation factor in our product. . Keeping the end goal in mind, developing roadmap maps out how to get from current stage to the end goal and required resources and support. .

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

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. Below is a brief overview of the framework that I use and a few signs of where you should start if you want to run this exercise yourself. I gather data through surveys about observations.

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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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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

You might talk to the sales rep, for example, and ask them about the viability of using existing sales channels or get their feedback on a draft product roadmap. You’ll then repeat the process with the other stakeholders until you have acquired enough information or managed to create a roadmap everybody accepts.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 26, 2021

That means about 99 percent of their customers are in the “silent majority” and not being put at the center of their product roadmap. Incorporate customer feedback directly into your product roadmap. Using customer feedback to prioritize your product roadmap might seem like an obvious strategy, but very few companies actually do it.

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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. This is a relative quick exercise and the matrix can be adjusted over time. Draft procedures to get commitment. Organize a product meeting.

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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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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The influence you exercise should therefore be a positive one, see my article Should Product People be Servant-Leaders? Becoming a t-shaped product professional and using a learning roadmap to develop your skills will help you with this. What’s more, there is not one right way to lead. Secure the right management backing.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 22, 2020

For many, simple routines like eating, sleeping, and exercise are now challenges, and the stress of this pandemic has left many overwhelmed and unmotivated. Tag common errors to help prioritize your product roadmap and identify high-priority bugs faster. Helpfulness. Quarantine hasn’t been easy.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. Roadmaps are stories. “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company. Managing up.

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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. Management should primarily focus their feedback on the discovery roadmap, not the delivery backlog. But there are more insidious ways to be output-oriented.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

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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