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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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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Product Culture

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In the 5 years since we wrote Product Roadmaps Relaunched, our outcomes approach to roadmaps has become the acknowledged best practice. Online Roadmap Masterclass: Get the insider’s discount. I’ve distilled everything we’ve learned from teaching thousands of people how to do roadmaps right into an online masterclass.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Version 1 Products Need a Vision and Strategic Roadmap The easiest way to avoid the version 1 product dilemma is to describe what the product will ultimately help customers accomplish, why that outcome is valuable, and in pecking order, the biggest obstacles standing in the way of that outcome. The strategic roadmap is the next layer down.

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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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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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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

JUNE 7, 2022

Through this effort, we created a very exciting and strategic annual roadmap. And what better way to do that than a customer-facing roadmap? Why we built a customer-facing roadmap. In fact, customer interviews play a key role in what gets prioritized and put on our roadmap. How we built our customer-facing 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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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. In one exercise, she had the audience imagine that they worked at a medical device company that recently released a wearable product to improve memory.

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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. When reviewing a roadmap with the product team, there are six points I always look for.

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280 Group

JUNE 23, 2020

Completely compatible with the Agile development methodology by bridging the need for long-term roadmap development with the need for short-term flexibility in planning. These trainings should provide for various learning activities like hands-on exercises and group work to maximize your understanding and retention. Cost : $1,495.00

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airfocus

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Creating a roadmap is really an exercise in information design; it requires the deliberate use of visual elements in conjunction with copy to help your vision become an actionable plan. Let’s take a look at some design tips to get you on your way.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 31, 2024

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. I find this to follow the same patterns as developing a product roadmap to operationalize a product strategy. We were ready for the next step.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

3 Ingredients to Building Out Your Product Vision Unfortunately, all of the roadmap planning in the world and the most thought out mitigation strategies are not going to prevent stakeholder roadmap dismantling, scope changes and risk events from occurring.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Are your roadmapping habits holding you back? Clear’s advice proves useful for product managers to implement his philosophy into their own atomic roadmapping habits. And for product managers, it’s important to develop your own atomic roadmapping habits. . External factors affecting our atomic roadmapping habits.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Finally, compare the scores and choose the features to include in the roadmap. In this hypothetical scenario, your team has come up with 5 possible features: Enhanced exercise tracker Nutrition planner Meditation guide Sleep tracker Community feature for user interaction Some of these features have been requested by your current users.

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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. Just say no.

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280 Group

JANUARY 15, 2020

This role leads the development and growth strategies—including driving vision and innovation, producing roadmaps, prioritizing initiatives and helping articulate features and benefits to the market. Product Manager Salary (0-9 YOE) $83,849 – $109,236. The Product Manager is the voice of the customer. Source: Glassdoor, January 2020.

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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 Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

I am not in favor of assigning home exercises. This article is tailored for product managers eager to excel in interviews focusing on product sense and execution.

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Product Management University

MAY 11, 2021

Enroll in the Free On-Demand Course Who doesn’t want to hijack your roadmap? It turns your roadmap into a house of cards. What’s On Your Roadmap? 3 Hands-On Exercises & Templates. On any given day (or hour), anyone can justify a new pecking order based on something that’s important to someone.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Overcoming Common Pitfalls in Scaling Customer Journeys One significant challenge teams face when working through a customer journey mapping exercise is the difficulty to scale the experience. Realized Value and Future Roadmap The tangible benefits of Comeet’s revamped customer journey are evident.

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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 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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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

As you complete the exercise above for each issue and product opportunity, thoroughly document your findings. As your team lays out the product roadmap for a period of time (quarter, cycle, sprint, etc.), After our product team finishes the 9-Blocker exercise we start shopping it around to the rest of the organization.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It’s useful in the product development context many of us live and breathe every day, including product roadmapping. Why use process mapping for roadmapping? If you’re not looking to change how things are done, it might seem like overkill to go through the trouble of mapping out your product roadmapping process.

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Dragonboat

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Annual planning, sometimes called strategic planning, is both a financial forecasting/ headcount budgeting exercise and a strategic roadmap planning event. As executives and teams of all functions gather to make key decisions for the “whole year,” annual planning is always a hectic event.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 3, 2017

A roadmap should—and this is going to sound banal—be pretty. Roadmaps are communication tools. We’ve said before that a roadmap isn’t just for you. Projecting an ugly, hard-to-read roadmap onto a boardroom wall will obscure your strategy, muddle your objective to achieve buy-in and bottleneck your execution.

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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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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I’m also closely involved in the strategic side of things, where we run weekly IPM (Iteration Planning Meeting), stakeholder meetings, retrospectives, and planning product roadmap as a team. Plus/Deltas Plus/Delta is a short reflection exercise to exchange feedback, typically between 2 people.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It is also good exercise when you live near a mountain. This context is also important to share as part of the roadmap. Yet piecing together discrete increments is exactly what we ask teams to do with roadmaps. Work through an exercise I like to call ‘what would change if…’. How would your user’s life look different?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The important point is before jumping to create the strategy, I suggested spending a good time on a small exercise of understanding the Buyer persona to understand the buyer thinking, business goals, channels, influencers, approach etc. It is good to have 2 years worth of roadmap where the level of certainty goes down with time.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 30, 2024

” Throughout the year, the Gumroad team marks certain tasks on their roadmap as “good for trialers” and then they assign these tasks to interview candidates. We’d reuse the same exercise across all levels and adjust expectations. So we just pay them to do it!

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