Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

.” And here’s what I’ve come up with… From this point forward, I am going to go back to doing a regularly scheduled (likely once per month) podcast, and I’m going to use the blog to provide updates and announcements about my training and coaching business, Strategy Generation Company. Now what about the new framework?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

So either we work together to understand your objectives, call them goals if you’d like, and the outcome you are looking for from the product, or we will end the discussion, and you won’t get a committed set of work on the roadmap.” We went away from detailed, long-term, feature-committed roadmaps. I explained this many times.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 31, 2018

Do you ever feel like breaking up with your roadmap? Todd Lombardo takes on a topic that is emotional to most of us as product managers – the product roadmap. In modern product management, we have multiple frameworks and tools designed to help us understand what to build. What a Roadmap Isn’t.

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Melissa Perri

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Product Roadmaps, in general, are confusing. Even the most experienced Product Managers still don’t have them fully figured out. Three years ago I wrote a blog post about Rethinking the Product Roadmap , in which I advocated for a focus on solving customer problems instead of listing out features with deadlines.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 4, 2021

Insights on roadmaps, metrics, OKRs, and more for product managers. In a few weeks, the name will change to Product Masters Now. You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but I want you to know the name change is coming—The Everyday Innovator will be renamed to Product Masters Now. . What is the solution?

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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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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

How to Develop Product Roadmap? Writing Good PRD & Managing Product Backlog [Back to?—? Product Management 101 ] Great products are not accidental. They all start with a focused strategy. To lay out and document your strategy, you need to develop a Product Roadmap. Product Roadmap?—?What

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

.” And here’s what I’ve come up with… From this point forward, I am going to go back to doing a regularly scheduled (likely once per month) podcast, and I’m going to use the blog to provide updates and announcements about my training and coaching business, Strategy Generation Company. Now what about the new framework?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

However, they are intended to guide and protect- to guide and protect the future of the product and the company. I’ve been a product leader for over a decade. I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. Why share now?

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Some mentioned that while they had worked as a PM at startups for several years, they felt they still lacked the skills and tools to reach the next level in their career growth. The course goes well beyond product management foundations to help you identify and execute high leverage work that generates disproportionate product returns.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Why do I need a framework? A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. Without a clear roadmap and strategy, a Product Manager won’t be able to make impactful decisions. Research article.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 11, 2024

Goal-Question-Metrics (GQMs) is a strategic framework used to define goals, ask relevant questions, and improve metrics. The GQM framework was originally created while evaluating project defects in NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Define specific goals : Set specific and achievable goals in alignment with your product strategy.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Furthermore, soft skills like product sense, communication, creativity, and being the glue that enables a team to operate at their very best will become even more important (and a differentiator among companies). That sounds a lot like a tool that would be incredibly good at identifying a clever strategy. Please tell me!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2023

However, the resource scheduling engine (next section) will prioritize resources for product A as the cost of delay is HIGH because of higher competitive threat. We have to sub optimize individual products to optimize the portfolio. I write about product management, healthcare, decision-making, investing, and startups.

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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. It’s almost ( almost ) as if the 2022 roadmap doesn’t exist.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 3, 2021

Great products come from great product teams—not from frameworks. Using the right product framework can help guide a team’s work. But the product will be only as good as the people behind it. Product Frameworks Can Become a Crutch. That bullet list could serve as your product framework.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 29, 2019

What are the pitfalls of focusing myopically on features while creating and communicating roadmaps? How do you avoid feature-fixation , and instead use themes and “ north stars ” as the guiding light for creating long-term value not only for customers but for product teams as well? Product Themes and North Stars.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 7, 2022

Through this effort, we created a very exciting and strategic annual roadmap. With so many impactful initiatives planned out for the year, we knew it was important to communicate with our customers and keep them updated on our product strategy. And what better way to do that than a customer-facing roadmap?

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Most companies don’t have a clear picture of their roadmap. Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. It breaks product innovation in 3 steps -- Product Mission, Product Blueprint and Roadmap Pillars.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Your product strategy is already bulletproof — just make sure you’re not making any of these mistakes. Learn 5 examples from my career where strategy went haywire and my tips on how to avoid these situations. I’m Sándor, a product lead and former product designer with 5 years under my belt.

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Dear Strategy

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we talk about the difference between a product strategy and a go-to-market plan, and why it’s important to have both of these key planning tools working together in harmony. First, a product strategy is NOT a product roadmap. They still need a reason to exist.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Which team owns product experience in the software industry? The product management team is primarily responsible for owning the digital product experience. Their role includes defining the product vision, developing the product strategy, and prioritizing features based on customer research and product management best practices.

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Innovatemap

AUGUST 31, 2020

Some choices are long-standing and are reflected in the product vision, some play into the foundation of a product strategy, and many more reside in the plan to pull it off – the roadmap. All of these are important frameworks and tools. Externally, roadmaps have incredible benefits as well.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 19, 2020

At these points in the product’s lifecycle, Raffali encourages product teams to consider “if there has been a path that has been charted before for other innovations” that can be replicated or informative for your own journey. What does a Good Strategy Look Like? Companies don’t start with a product strategy.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Tools for insightful user behavior analytics. Tools such as Userpilot and Google Analytics are effective for this purpose. Increase product adoption and stickiness. Create data-driven product strategies. Product/feature adoption rate. Userpilot’s product usage dashboard. Identify and remove friction.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Extensive market research is essential to assess the competitive landscape, identify opportunities, and shape the product vision. PMs need to know how to use product analytics tools to gain actionable insights. Product managers are very lucky in this respect. Product manager skills: user path analysis.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Examples of different prioritization frameworks. TL;DR A feature prioritization matrix helps product teams decide which features to develop next, focusing on high-impact features and resource optimization. There are a number of different prioritization frameworks , like RICE, Story Mapping, Opportunity Scoring, ICE, and the Kano Model.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

UX vision is a clear and inspiring statement that guides the long-term design strategy and keeps teams and stakeholders on the same page. Goals are the specific UX objectives the product aspires to achieve, for example, improving usability. The plan, often depicted in a UX roadmap, outlines the work necessary to achieve the goals.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 1, 2020

This legacy of outdated product versions lingering on laptops, smartphones, and servers means it’s super important every release works well, has some staying power, and advances the product strategy—even if you keep cranking out updates. So how do product roadmaps help ensure this remains the case?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

A clear product vision Every business and product needs a vision to guide everything that follows, from strategy to staffing to roadmaps. Taking a bifurcated approach to product development and innovation is more vital than ever. The product vision defines where the business wants the product to be.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2022

Quality Function Deployment (QDF) is a framework that helps teams translate customer requirements into technical requirements, and design the product and processes needed for its development. Thanks to QDF you can build products that meet user expectations and decrease the development time and cost. Are you ready?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 25, 2021

While there are very few silver bullets in life, the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework is an indispensable tool in answering those kinds of questions. The reason is that the JTBD framework (used and applied correctly) helps entrepreneurs, designers, and engineers clearly understand what “job” customers are trying to accomplish.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 24, 2019

Need help prioritizing the many features and other initiatives competing for space on your product roadmap? One way to make better product decisions is to borrow a framework developed by Google. Google originally created the HEART framework to help its UX teams improve users’ experience with Google products.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The question is, as a product manager, how exactly do you map product revenue to the roadmap? In this post, I’ll break down the basics of how to tie your roadmap back to revenue. Roadmap : Visual representation of your product strategy. Tying the Product Roadmap to Revenue.

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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.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

Product Manager’s Control of Employee Expectations. As a product manager, implementing an effective product strategy should remain a priority. As any veteran product leader knows, there’s no better tool to facilitate that than the product roadmap.

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