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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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

That’s often the case in my experience for businesses in finance, media, travel, insurance, and other verticals that traditionally don’t have product management groups, and where product management is not represented at the executive level. Strategy and leadership skills are nice-to-have but not mandatory.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. 6:52] Did you find a gap in the roadmapping tools that were available before you started Gocious?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In Part 2 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, we take a look at yet more insights shared by a group of senior product leaders during #mtpcon 2019 (if you missed Part 1, take a look here). Legal, finance, marketing should all be included in the solution. Finance are the Gatekeepers to Product Culture.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Previously, Bruce joined us for a three-part series on creating and using product roadmaps. He is the co-author of the book Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction While Embracing Uncertainty. 7:13] How did you move from focusing on roadmaps to focusing on stakeholder management? The goal is alignment of the team.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

She also spent three years as VP Product at HotelTonight and has held product leadership roles at Prezi, Snagajob, and Eclipsys. He is a published O’Reilly Media author with two titles: Design Sprint (2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (2017). Product Leadership. Kenneth Chin, CPO Seek Asia.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. For a revenue-generating product, this might be someone from marketing, sales, support, and finance.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

Pendo’s chief product officer shares his take on product management leadership. “If Pendo offers a platform of tools that allows product managers to make their products better —whether they are at the beginning of their product roadmap deciding what to build or want to validate the direction for how their product evolves.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

We have to learn how to market and sell, and create a roadmap that can eventually be transitioned into an execution mode. A team may be tasked with increasing profit by 10%, and may be 95% certain of the roadmap to get there. In reality, no product falls cleanly into either category. The end result is a win for everyone.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This is where product roadmaps are nothing more than requests from top customers. This is where roadmaps are driven by technology innovation, led by engineering (of course). In this culture, roadmaps and key decisions are led by a few executives. 4) Align with executives and core product leadership. Engineering driven.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For example, our Sales team is now able to give segmented customer feedback to our product leaders to influence our roadmap. For example, our leadership team might decide to focus our company strategy on targeting the segments with the best revenue retention. Understanding our most and least engaged customers at a granular level.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Thats why we conducted a survey of 200 product managers across industries like finance, healthcare, and tech to better understand the value of certification. Certification reflects dedication to growth, the ability to tackle complex challenges, and even readiness for leadership opportunities.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Need to radically change a product experience – learn from Yahoo Finance rebellion. The product management team for Yahoo Finance spent the last 18 months conducting user research and learning how to improve Yahoo Finance. create a path to executive leadership. Watch the video above or at https://youtu.be/fnsrDIUWhTg.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

This will involve close collaboration with Stripe’s and our financial partners product and engineering organizations to prioritize valuable investments over a multi-quarter roadmap, considering distribution potential, performance, costs, and risks. Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 17, 2021

Relationships with users, designers, engineers, executives, finance, legal, marketing, partners, and so on are all key to a product manager succeeding, and a product being successful. Stories can get written, sprints can be executed, and roadmaps can get created for unsuccessful products, just as they do for successful ones.

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

Then align individual product roadmaps (features sets) to that portfolio strategy accordingly. Identify and execute action items required to establish stronger working relationships with engineering, marketing, sales, finance and customer success teams. Structure Your Product Organization for Value. Create Your To-Do List.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Are you curious to learn the top finance product manager skills recruiters are looking for? Finance PMs occupy a unique position within the world of product management. Since finance PMs are responsible for a specific niche of products, recruiters who scout for them look for a particular set of skills in candidates.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The business economics and finance piece is unfamiliar to many product managers therefore causing discomfort and then getting deprioritized or ignored altogether. Product leadership’s primary role should be to connect product management to the business and vice versa.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Maintaining a prioritized backlog that aligns with available Engineering capacity and maps to an overall solution roadmap. Secondly, become an advocate for the product team to senior leadership.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2019

Your executive leadership team might be focused on reducing costs. A senior sales rep doesn’t know what products and services are in the pipeline because the roadmap is always out of date. The finance team is struggling to put together an accurate forecast because the sales reps are reluctant to commit to their forecasts.

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Product Culture

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Sarah must work closely with engineering, design, support, services, sales, marketing, and even finance to set expectations on what will be in the roadmap going forward and what will not. This is product leadership. Events Phil Hornby, a coach at Product Culture , will be speaking on “Your roadmap sucks!”

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Todd Lombardo, Co-Author of Roadmaps Relaunched. Leadership Forum.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

business models, your product/business, finance, sales, marketing, scaling) 4. Iterative development, scrum/agile/kanban, product roadmaps, QA Technology. understanding business models, finance, sales, marketing, scaling) Every part of the company works together to create and deliver value to its customers. Finance ?—?“

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Ben and Blair particularly advocate using the “Product leadership team (PLT)” for alignment, which consists of participants from different departments and “rules on project proposals and tries to reach consensus among teams and departments”. In terms of commitments on your roadmap, Ben and Blair advise to “underpromise and overdeliver”.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

  Do Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Engineering, and Product know/have what they need to support the plan?    IMHO, sorting backlogs and setting roadmaps based only on multi-column spreadsheets or cost of delay or WSJF is fundamentally flawed.    Did they have sufficient input? Run the numbers for the group. 

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 22, 2020

With a finance background, I am focused on developing our Revenue Optimization solutions, which connects Customer Success to revenue. . The Gainsight platform makes it easier for me to stay customer-centric as I plan our roadmap priorities and put together requirements for upcoming enhancements. What does your day-to-day look like?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Velocity is how fast a company can execute their product roadmap and then in a specific direction i.e. their strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

Product Managers contribute substantially to various departments like finance, sales, and marketing, yet their efforts are not always directly linked to clear, individual metrics. Because of this, it is easy for their value to be overlooked by leadership. I’ll share an interesting story from my first role as a Product Manager.

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Userpilot

JULY 25, 2024

Product Roadmap Management : Help create and maintain a detailed product roadmap that aligns with the strategic vision and market demands. Learn more about product roadmapping. Technology, finance, healthcare, e-commerce, and consumer goods represent a significant portion of product management job openings.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Maintaining a prioritized backlog that aligns with available Engineering capacity and maps to an overall solution roadmap. Secondly, become an advocate for the product team to senior leadership.

User Testing 98

User Testing Product Research Product Management Product Manager 98

BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

Product Leaders who claim the title without actively seeking formal leadership learning and coaching are doing a disservice to those who serve their people and this great profession. While learning is a necessity for great leadership, the love, passion and drive of Product Leaders to lead people are equally important.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Why should product managers be under any more pressure to make sound decisions than finance managers or sales and marketing teams? Second, the product manager’s delivery requirements will usually be the big development items in an organisation’s technology roadmap. The pressure is on to get it right.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Andrea’s unique perspective and critical thinking have led her to contest a number of well-established notions in Product Management: from NPS, through KPIs and OKRs , Product Roadmaps , to Product Prioritization Framework – Andrea takes no prisoners. Galina’s largest contributions to the Product Management field.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

" At the leadership level, I see a fundamental disconnect between the folks defining/building software products and the folks marketing/selling them: The "maker" side of the house defines prioritization as committing to fewer things in order to finish the most important ones.  Call it "roadmap amnesia."

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Typically, product managers are responsible for market and user research, product discovery , feature prioritization , and roadmapping. The Vice-President of Product is a part of the senior leadership team and they are responsible for the overall product strategy and vision across the entire business.

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The Product HQ

JULY 1, 2024

Product Owner Salary by Experience Level As mentioned, this is a leadership position, and so, the product owner’s salary is dictated by how much product development/ownership experience an individual has. A product owner is a leadership position within the product development , product management director, and marketing sphere.

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