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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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. Teresa: One of the things I think I’ve written in the past is if your backlog or your roadmap or your idea log—whatever you’re going to call it—isn’t changing based on what you’re learning in discovery , there’s a disconnect there. What’s the vision? It can be anything.

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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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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Product planning improves the alignment of teams and internal stakeholders with the product vision. Develop and prioritize the roadmap to give structure to product development. Thanks to its myriad of templates, you can easily create all the visual aids your team may need like roadmaps or opportunity solutions trees.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’ When Teresa started working with the team at Airship, she led them through the “How to Make Toast” exercise to help clarify orchestration. Widening the Scope from Solutions to Opportunities.

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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

the Product Manager is a sheepdog…” As a sheepdog, a Product Manager is “right at the nexus of all other teams” where he or she “ leads in defining the product vision , establishing the operational plan to get there, and then executing on it ”. a market problem) and should be leveraged to shape your product vision and direction.

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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

MARCH 17, 2020

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. 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?”.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Noisy customers When it comes to your product roadmap, the customer is most definitely NOT always right , especially when they ask for specific features.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

They also work with product managers on the product roadmap , carry out experiments to validate ideas and help identify minimum viable features for the MVP. These are not one-off exercises. Collaborate with product management on product roadmap development. Act as brand managers. Benefits of product service management.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

20 Questions from New Scrum Master to Product Owner The Questionnaire: From New Scrum Master to Product Owner This set of questions is intended for the first talk between the Product Owner and a new Scrum Master without involving the whole Scrum team: What is the product vision and the corresponding go-to-market strategy? Roadmap planning?—?as

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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. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact maps make roadmap management and prioritization easier. Impact mapping enhances strategic planning, helps define quality improvements that will have the best impact on the overall goal, and manage roadmaps. Roadmap management. Finally, impact mapping improves roadmap management and helps teams avoid scope creep.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

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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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

A thorough persona workshop, including profile building and persona activating exercise, can take up to two days. Persona Activating Exercises. If time allows, I strongly recommend you do some persona activating exercises. The two most frequent exercises I use in my workshops are: Write lines. Prioritization.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Proven examples are user story mapping or product roadmap planning workshops. (It For example, invite the individual to a user story mapping workshop or user tests.) Product vision and strategy are kept confidential in your organization to prevent competitors from stealing ideas. How often shall product roadmaps be planned?—?once

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

To help hiring managers and recruiters, like myself, decide whether or not to interview you, it can be a great exercise to treat your resume like a professional product. As a hiring manager, I want to hire great storytellers, s o the team can work towards a unified vision. . Storytelling.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the worst case, you have to go through a rewriting exercise where some parts or even the entire product are being redeveloped. If a refactoring release is the right approach for you, then your product roadmap should reflect this: It should show a release dedicated to future-proofing the product and making the necessary technical changes.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2023

Product managers own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the product(s) they manage. This entails customer and market research, internal prioritization exercises, and tying back product goals and metrics to organizational targets and KPIs. Before going further, let’s revisit the responsibilities and purpose of each role.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Just like building a house, if a product’s vision, blueprint, or the foundation is wrong, the output has serious problems. In many software projects, there are subtle differences in understanding the ultimate vision for the project. Product Vision and Goals. This is Modus Kickstart objective #1: alignment.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Relentless execution will ultimately determine whether you'll be able to make your product vision a reality. It's also a good time to ensure that the vision you've established for your product is still appropriate. Treat the annual planning process as a check-in to ensure your vision is still serving you well. Annual Planning.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

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. Everyone has to get behind the plan. We launched.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Vision – the who and what. Just like any good product team/ squad, my team need a shared vision, which they are aligned around and that gives them a clear sense of purpose. We co-created our vision using Roman Pichler’s canvas. Our team vision is: Create exceptional digital experiences, effectively.

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ProductPlan

MAY 30, 2019

With an agreed upon vision, the product team can then break down all of the required steps to reach that final destination. This not only gives clear guidelines to product development; it also provides QA with precise things to look for during their testing and gives a head start for sales and marketing since they know what they’re getting.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

We need to shift between priorities, sometimes “interfering” with our roadmaps and plans, but the ability to adapt to this constant stream of changes is essential. Innovation implies risk, and we know many ways to minimize it, but there is nothing riskier than not having new ideas to test. you can test more changes faster.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Data drives our decisions, and A/B tests are the norm, gut feelings and hunches don’t carry much weight anymore. This might lead some product professionals to bypass their own spidey senses in favor of simply facilitating prioritization exercises. Now is the time to think about exercising those muscles. Is it testable?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Strategy questions When building a roadmap from scratch, the search area for meaningful user problems to solve has to be narrowed down first. Future-Backwards Exercise: Bring relevant stakeholders together to imagine the best and worst possible futures that could happen given the company’s current vision, strategy, and market conditions.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It is responsible for defining the product strategy, developing a roadmap, and setting up a product vision in the market that meets both company goals and user needs. Well, roadmapping is a communication tool that helps to communicate where you are, where are you heading, and how you expect to accomplish.

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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 This is achieved by testing hypotheses as fast and as inexpensive as possible, thus mitigating risk and maximizing the development team’s work. Suppose a person or a group of individuals, for example, a product council, exercises control over the Product Backlog.

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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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ProductPlan

JULY 30, 2021

I’m using it as a lens to see how they process information from various sources and turn that into a coherent vision. I’m looking for stakeholder alignment, rapid assessment of new developments, and (obviously) leaning on a solid roadmap to pull it all together. That type of environment limits a PM to just executing things.

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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. It is probably the most individual milestone, as it requires that all team members focus on their impressions from the previous exercise. Day 3 is D-day: decision day. You cannot predict the unpredictable!

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The purpose of the whole exercise is to start a conversation about what part of your agile transition is going well and where action needs to be taken. Roadmaps with fixed release dates are provided for quarters in advance by the management. Download the Cargo Cult Agile Checklist What Is the Purpose of the Cargo Cult Agile Survey?

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