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How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

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. But the training was intense! Roadmaps are stories. ” A lot of roadmaps are simply incomprehensible.

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. Output-focused product roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty, all while limiting product work to a few big bets, which may or may not pan out. We broke into pairs and then each pair developed a feature roadmap along a particular area of focus.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

Do you have areas where this work you had not yet planned because you didn’t have the capacity, but at this time there’s an opportunity to invest, get the capacity and take it on, to effectively accelerate your future roadmap, versus just doing what you were currently planning, faster? And then, of course, the speculation too.

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