ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

Product managers wear many hats, but one of the most uncomfortable ones they’re forced to occasionally don is that of the product vision “Gatekeeper.” The harder part is shooting things down that aren’t bad at face value, but don’t match up with the strategy, vision, and timeline of the overall product.

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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. This is not a “one size fits all” exercise. Questions About the Product, Roadmap, and Industry. A Starter List of Solid Questions to Consider.

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

I looked into a variety of frameworks: Jobs to be Done , Lean Startup , Design Sprint , and Opportunity Solution Trees among others. We narrowed our focus to just nailing down our product vision statement. We focused on a North Star metric that is reflective of our vision. This forms a backlog of opportunities —not a roadmap.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a product manager, you may have already learned how to plan and prioritize a product roadmap. If you're a PM at an early stage startup, expect to work a lot. At a small startup, you will be wearing so many hats and it will often feel overwhelming how much work has to get done.". Unwind With Exercise.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. 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. The initial vision was to. Build a community.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

There’s a startup product metaphor that bugs me. Don’t get me wrong, there is extreme value in making plans and roadmaps. It’s an exercise in thinking through the vision, landscape and resources that creates shared understanding, assumptions and decided goals. Leading agile companies set the vision, goals and measures.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2018

I can bring as examples the Design Thinking process, the Build-Measure-Learn from Lean Startup, the Double Diamond and so on… The point is that worklife in large organizations, or even startups, can bring to the table many factors that won’t allow you and your team to follow those steps and, yes, you have to live with this.

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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. I believe they do. We came up with a few potential factors.

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Radical Product

MAY 23, 2018

It was an interactive session where we presented elements of Radical Product thinking and interleaved it with exercises so each person could develop a measurement strategy for their product/ organization, that was grounded in their vision and strategy. The organization as a result would feel more like a nimble startup.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 22, 2019

This is supposed to be an open exercise: if you are in a management position, try and encourage usually silent voices to speak up. Whether you are at a startup or bigger organization, it is likely that your team is sacrificing a lot to complete the Sprint. Finally: keep morals high! Day 3 is D-day: decision day.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Since product development is often a blank canvas (particularly in startups) the sheer number of possible scenarios and opportunities you might want to explore can be overwhelming: Should we build a mobile app or not? Similarly, your vision and strategy help with this too. Take the example of the principle ‘ship to learn’.

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Radical Product

JUNE 19, 2018

When developing and launching these types of products, the need for product thinking is clear: someone must take day-to-day responsibility for the product vision and strategy, manage updates and releases, and balance priorities between customers, technology, and the business. But what is a “product”, anyway?

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

Product management boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product. Owning the vision for a product involves clearly formulating and then evangelizing the audience you are targeting, the distinct problem you are solving, and your unique solution by which you will win the market.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 29, 2019

Get everyone out of the office once a week for lunch, take a brainstorming session outside of the office, get some exercise. Focus on what should be on the roadmap to make that happen. Take a walk and think Take some time to think about your strategy and your vision, where do they align? Need ideas?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

How does an opportunity solution tree connect to a product roadmap? How does an opportunity solution tree connect with a product vision? I could try to shoehorn these desires into needs—I need something to fill my time, I need nutrients, and I need to exercise. Vistaly is a startup in this space that has happy customers.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

So the product management is the only one function that is offering business startups the significant advantages such as in setting up business objectives, targeting markets to deliver measurable products and services, and prioritizing the goals of startups. Still confused about the concept of product management?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. These problems indicate a “big opportunity” (i.e., How are we doing? strategy?—?

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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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The Product Coalition

JULY 3, 2018

A solid Product Roadmap will help you efficiently and systematically achieve the necessary steps to a successful Product Launch. If you had to use 1 word to sum up what PMs do, most PMs I know would likely pick “Product Roadmap”. This is the big ‘vision’ question, aka boiled down to “Why are we doing this?”

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. Or how will you be able to build a product roadmap that gets you executive buy-in? Questioning them.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

By unpacking Amazon’s product strategy, we endeavored to see whether or not the company stayed true to its core vision and mission when put to the ultimate test. For initiatives where we required work from other teams, we used our twice-a-year product plans to try and get on their respective roadmaps. passion for invention.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

derived from a vision and strategy?—?low Usually, besides product management duties, Product Ownership entails establishing the product vision and strategy, its alignment with the company’s goals and objectives, and managing any internal and external stakeholders in this process. low and increase the speed of experimentation.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It’s not even about what should be a roadmap and what shouldn’t be. And there’s been so much energy over the years, and you can blame or credit whoever you want: lean startup, lean UX, all these movements, outputs. And startups die unless they ship. Des: The inputs get digested down into a roadmap.

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ProductPlan

MAY 11, 2021

Not every product manager is lucky enough to work with a purpose-built roadmapping tool. But those that do seldom return to their old methods of managing the product roadmap. The great benefits outweigh other roadmapping options such as spreadsheets and presentations. Finding a new roadmapping tool that is easy to maintain. “It

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

In start-ups, Product Managers often report that founders don’t allow them to steer the Product Strategy and Roadmap. But first, Product Managers need to demonstrate to founders or executives that progress is happening, so that founders can trust that their vision is being nurtured. A Product vision is key to delivering great products.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

How does a startup, particularly when you have users who derive value in different ways from a product, go about pinpointing what those should be? It’s about the temptation of many startups to focus on existing users rather new ones. Casey Winters on how to measure onboarding success. It needs to serve them now.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 23, 2015

One of the most critical aspects of finding product/market fit in the earliest stages of a startup is identifying and targeting your ideal customer. I find though that many startups don't give this task as much attention as it deserves. Sure, coming up with an initial hypothesis of a high level ideal customer description is easy.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

Cast the vision, build the version. For mature startups, this may come through in software acquisitions or new internal product builds. Also roadmap flexibility. The roadmap changes more often in SaaS, meaning more communication with stakeholders. Curiosity and defined overall vision. I’m a perfectionist.

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ProductBoard

JANUARY 29, 2019

Provided the customer falls into the target segment, and their needs align with our vision, rallying the team to deliver a feature that thrills them is an exciting result to aim for. When planning your objectives, for your team or yourself, you’ll find that much of the exercise involves analyzing higher-level key results and asking yourself….

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And ultimately, what happens with the product that you’re maintaining that’s been around for a number of years is that you’re only improving it on the margins, you have to kind of launch a whole new version to really get in and like really exercise your skills. First off, just to be clear, we don’t have a roadmap.

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Andrew Chen

AUGUST 10, 2023

Then 100% – a mere doubling annually in a startup ecosystem that demands a much faster target. What starts as a slow boil – where the team has a well-planned roadmap, and a big vision – becomes a sudden crisis. Instead, a crisis ensues, and the entire roadmap has to be rewritten.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Also I wrote this book on product roadmaps. And in it one of the most popular topics is prioritization because if you’re not going to put everything on your roadmap will you need to decide what are you going to put. Critically the whole lean startup movement is about testing your assumptions right.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

You have someone with a vision, who builds some features and does a launch. There were a number of individuals and startup founders who were putting the necessary ideas, workflows, and tactics together. Growth PM: A product manager that’s responsible for the experiment roadmap. Why did this even emerge in the first place?

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

Another technique that I like to use—after we’ve done some more general understanding of the customer and their unmet needs and their context—is the “Spend $100 exercise.” So I’ve seen people use their tree as a “Now, next, future” roadmap. That’s not how most startups are founded. We love this solution.

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