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In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework. This in turn feeds project plans and feature roadmaps, and the micro-planning of an agile product team. MORE
Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash There is a misconception that building a roadmap will define a product’s future. But a roadmap doesn’t create a clear view of the future. Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. So why build a roadmap at all? MORE
For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. You might be super excited to go away for 2–3 weeks, conduct market research and come back with a colourful looking roadmap. Creating a product roadmap and getting everyone on board and communicating it and iterating on it is a ton of work and it quickly falls out of sync. MORE
The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” In this article, I tie the older posts to the framework. The Challenge of Roadmaps. How To Share A Roadmap Without Driving Into A Ditch. The full framework – core and supporting components. Breakthrough! MORE
As your team lays out the product roadmap for a period of time (quarter, cycle, sprint, etc.), The post Use This Framework to Unblock Your Product Roadmap appeared first on Customer Success Software | Gainsight. We recently had the opportunity to join Gainsight for a webinar about Finding Friction in Your User Journey and How to Fix It. One of the key aspects of fixing user friction is understanding how to prioritize that work along with things like new feature development. MORE
For product managers, determining what’s a priority in your product roadmap can seem more daunting than the actual work. Because once you have clearly defined and planned out your roadmap (and stick to it), staying on course and keeping teams focused becomes much easier. MORE
Choosing the right product strategy framework is very important for every product manager. The product manager is the one who takes the decision on which framework to use. Like everything else in the world of agile methodology , we need to be agile while choosing our frameworks. MORE
I’ve made a lot of roadmaps in my time. In fact, in the first three years I was at WorldRemit, I counted that I represented our company roadmap in 10 different ways. This reformatting was always an attempt to make the roadmap work harder: to bring more focus, communicate more effectively with stakeholders, keep a growing team joined up. One of many, many roadmaps. Yet most roadmaps have a big problem in common. So, Back to That Roadmap…. MORE
If you haven’t found the right objective goal-setting framework for setting roadmap priorities, consider Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The OKR framework was popularized by Google, which attributes much of its success to this goal-setting model. Although not designed for product roadmaps in particular, the OKR model has a lot to offer product teams. What is the OKR framework? Many people describe OKRs as an agile framework, which makes sense. MORE
In this ProductTank London talk, Ahmed El-Sharkasy – CEO and Co-Founder at Knowledge Officer – offers exceptional insights on product roadmapping and prioritisation. The post Startup Roadmaps and Prioritisation, by Ahmed El-Sharkasy appeared first on Mind the Product. MORE
Are your roadmapping habits holding you back? Clear’s advice proves useful for product managers to implement his philosophy into their own atomic roadmapping habits. And for product managers, it’s important to develop your own atomic roadmapping habits. . MORE
What are the pitfalls of focusing myopically on features while creating and communicating roadmaps? Feature-based roadmaps have long been the norm of product development, they put product managers in the hot seat to “deliver” the roadmap “to plan.” They created a roadmap based on an idea about what they were going to build and all the features it would encompass. With this feature-based roadmap viewpoint, it was very hard to shift priorities along the way. MORE
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. The same truism applies to products and their roadmaps. Instead of chasing potential and possibilities, the product roadmap must build on what matters most. Roadmaps MORE
Below, I’m sharing a framework that I’ve leveraged to set goals and effectively institute them across an organization. Roadmap. The post A flight-tested framework for effective goal-setting appeared first on Mixpanel. Innovators frameworks goal-setting MORE
In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. And even roadmaps. The Jobs To Be Done framework has a whole methodology for finding unmet needs of market segments. The Secret Product Management Framework. And that’s the Secret Product Manager Framework: We find market problems, create solutions, and get customers to buy our solutions. MORE
Here’s a simple framework for managing it. A three step framework for tackling the debt. Once we knew we had to tackle our debt, we gleaned insights from our previous experiences to produce a three-step framework for reducing it. MORE
Read more » The post Minimum Viable Replacement: A New Framework for Retiring Old Systems appeared first on Mind the Product. Guest Post Minimum Viable Product Product Roadmap Minimum Viable Replacement MORE
You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. Step 3: Review the existing product roadmap. MORE
Product Roadmaps, in general, are confusing. 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. I want to share with you the framework that I have found, which allows for a balance of discovery and delivery and takes us out of that laundry list of features. Well that’s where the term Roadmap actually comes from. MORE
In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. And even roadmaps. The Jobs To Be Done framework has a whole methodology for finding unmet needs of market segments. The Secret Product Management Framework. And that’s the Secret Product Manager Framework: We find market problems, create solutions, and get customers to buy our solutions. MORE
Part one of this article taught you how to align a roadmap with aspirational business goals. The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. Share that roadmap! MORE
Many teams fail to understand the importance of a roadmap. They fail to understand how it can help to standardize roadmaps to align your team. There are more features to build, more roadmaps to maintain, and more stakeholders to satisfy. Streamline Your Product Roadmap. MORE
This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ? How to Roadmap like an Essentialist. Prioritize what’s most important using a framework. MORE
Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over. A Product Leader’s Role in Roadmapping. MORE
Great products come from great product teams—not from frameworks. Using the right product framework can help guide a team’s work. Product Frameworks Can Become a Crutch. As a product leader, I encourage my teams to use whichever product frameworks they find helpful. MORE
The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” In this article, I tie the older posts to the framework. The Challenge of Roadmaps. How To Share A Roadmap Without Driving Into A Ditch. The full framework – core and supporting components. Breakthrough! MORE
Everyone’s going to be a fan of prioritization frameworks that simplify and streamline the process. So, what are the most popular prioritization frameworks of 2020? Digging into the Most Popular Prioritization Frameworks. MORE
But if there’s one part of product management that needs IMPACT more than anywhere else, it’s roadmapping. Roadmaps set the tone for the coming months and years. Most product teams don’t set out to create lackluster roadmaps, but they’re often dealt a sub-par opening hand. MORE
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. The roadmap gets a lot of blame for this culture. What a Roadmap Isn’t. A roadmap can be many things. A roadmap is not a release plan. What a Roadmap Is. MORE
In today’s article, we’ll discuss the agile roadmapping process. We’ll start by reviewing the objectives of roadmaps and planning for agile teams, then share some special considerations for agile roadmaps. From there, we’ll walk you through the agile roadmapping process step by step. Why Agile Teams Need A Product Roadmap. What purposes do product roadmaps serve for agile teams? An agile roadmap is a critical communication tool. MORE
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? A product roadmap is a tool used by PM’s to communicate the what and the why of a product. Your roadmap is used across the whole product lifecycle. MORE
How to Develop Product Roadmap? To lay out and document your strategy, you need to develop a Product Roadmap. Product Roadmap?—?What What Product Roadmap is a guiding strategic document?—? How to Develop Product Roadmap? product-roadmap roadmaps product-management MORE
Much has been written over the last few years on the idea of the featureless roadmap , which challenges product teams to present their plans grounded more in strategic vision – or by themes – rather than a laundry list of specific features. The Customer Journey Framework. MORE
The popular frameworks for assessing value and prioritizing the product roadmap make no distinction of or accommodation for the differing business models. MORE
The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” In this article, I tie the older posts to the framework. The Challenge of Roadmaps. How To Share A Roadmap Without Driving Into A Ditch. The full framework – core and supporting components. Breakthrough! MORE
There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability. But while each roadmap for a specific audience serves a particular purpose, there are times when we need everyone to gather together and agree on a singular vision for the product. Creating a roadmap that works for everything and everyone may feel like an impossible task. MORE
Photo by JESHOOTS.com from Pexels By Making Uncertainty Explicit with the Problem, Solution, Delivery framework There is an immense amount of “How to” roadmap articles. An option to improve our roadmaps. product-development product-design product-management portfolio roadmaps MORE
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
In this ProductTank London talk, Ahmed El-Sharkasy – CEO and Co-Founder at Knowledge Officer – offers exceptional insights on product roadmapping and prioritisation. The post Startup Roadmaps and Prioritisation, by Ahmed El-Sharkasy appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Secret PM Handbook
MAY 5, 2017
In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. And even roadmaps. The Jobs To Be Done framework has a whole methodology for finding unmet needs of market segments. The Secret Product Management Framework. And that’s the Secret Product Manager Framework: We find market problems, create solutions, and get customers to buy our solutions.
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ProductPlan
JUNE 18, 2021
But if there’s one part of product management that needs IMPACT more than anywhere else, it’s roadmapping. Roadmaps set the tone for the coming months and years. Most product teams don’t set out to create lackluster roadmaps, but they’re often dealt a sub-par opening hand.
ProductPlan
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Are your roadmapping habits holding you back? Clear’s advice proves useful for product managers to implement his philosophy into their own atomic roadmapping habits. And for product managers, it’s important to develop your own atomic roadmapping habits. .
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ProductPlan
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Many teams fail to understand the importance of a roadmap. They fail to understand how it can help to standardize roadmaps to align your team. There are more features to build, more roadmaps to maintain, and more stakeholders to satisfy. Streamline Your Product Roadmap.
Mind the Product
APRIL 8, 2021
Read more » The post Minimum Viable Replacement: A New Framework for Retiring Old Systems appeared first on Mind the Product. Guest Post Minimum Viable Product Product Roadmap Minimum Viable Replacement
The Secret PM Handbook
MAY 5, 2017
In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. And even roadmaps. The Jobs To Be Done framework has a whole methodology for finding unmet needs of market segments. The Secret Product Management Framework. And that’s the Secret Product Manager Framework: We find market problems, create solutions, and get customers to buy our solutions.
ProductPlan
MARCH 5, 2021
This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ? How to Roadmap like an Essentialist. Prioritize what’s most important using a framework.
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. The roadmap gets a lot of blame for this culture. What a Roadmap Isn’t. A roadmap can be many things. A roadmap is not a release plan. What a Roadmap Is.
Speaker: Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor
As a Product Manager, prioritizing work on your roadmap is an important part of your role. To answer roadmap questions, you're probably familiar with frameworks like RICE and Cost of Delay. But products are built by people, and people are messy - unlike these frameworks. Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Adviser, has identified potholes in your roadmap that are preventing you from planning as best as you can. She'll take you through all the opportunities to improve your organization's relationship to its roadmap that you may have missed along the way.
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The Product Coalition
JUNE 9, 2021
Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash There is a misconception that building a roadmap will define a product’s future. But a roadmap doesn’t create a clear view of the future. Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. So why build a roadmap at all?
The Basics of Product Management
JULY 17, 2020
Choosing the right product strategy framework is very important for every product manager. The product manager is the one who takes the decision on which framework to use. Like everything else in the world of agile methodology , we need to be agile while choosing our frameworks.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 23, 2018
I’ve made a lot of roadmaps in my time. In fact, in the first three years I was at WorldRemit, I counted that I represented our company roadmap in 10 different ways. This reformatting was always an attempt to make the roadmap work harder: to bring more focus, communicate more effectively with stakeholders, keep a growing team joined up. One of many, many roadmaps. Yet most roadmaps have a big problem in common. So, Back to That Roadmap….
ProductPlan
DECEMBER 18, 2018
If you haven’t found the right objective goal-setting framework for setting roadmap priorities, consider Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The OKR framework was popularized by Google, which attributes much of its success to this goal-setting model. Although not designed for product roadmaps in particular, the OKR model has a lot to offer product teams. What is the OKR framework? Many people describe OKRs as an agile framework, which makes sense.
Speaker: Janna Bastow, CEO and Co-Founder, ProdPad
When planning a roadmap, product managers must sort through huge piles of possibilities, balance competing factors, and ultimately decide what comes next. They have to prioritize—but it’s never that straightforward. You can’t blame product managers for wanting to find the perfect prioritization method to make their jobs easier. Still, no technique is a silver bullet. Join Janna Bastow, CEO and co-founder of ProdPad, as she talks about the pros and cons of prioritization frameworks.
ProductPlan
DECEMBER 15, 2020
You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. Step 3: Review the existing product roadmap.
Gainsight
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
As your team lays out the product roadmap for a period of time (quarter, cycle, sprint, etc.), The post Use This Framework to Unblock Your Product Roadmap appeared first on Customer Success Software | Gainsight. We recently had the opportunity to join Gainsight for a webinar about Finding Friction in Your User Journey and How to Fix It. One of the key aspects of fixing user friction is understanding how to prioritize that work along with things like new feature development.
The Product Coalition
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
How to Develop Product Roadmap? To lay out and document your strategy, you need to develop a Product Roadmap. Product Roadmap?—?What What Product Roadmap is a guiding strategic document?—? How to Develop Product Roadmap? product-roadmap roadmaps product-management
The Secret PM Handbook
AUGUST 4, 2017
The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” In this article, I tie the older posts to the framework. The Challenge of Roadmaps. How To Share A Roadmap Without Driving Into A Ditch. The full framework – core and supporting components. Breakthrough!
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Every product needs a North Star. In this guide, we will show you the metrics product managers need to tie product improvements to revenue impact. If you are looking for a more-focused, less-reactive way to work, this guide is for you.
ProductPlan
AUGUST 17, 2020
Much has been written over the last few years on the idea of the featureless roadmap , which challenges product teams to present their plans grounded more in strategic vision – or by themes – rather than a laundry list of specific features. The Customer Journey Framework.
Melissa Perri
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Product Roadmaps, in general, are confusing. 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. I want to share with you the framework that I have found, which allows for a balance of discovery and delivery and takes us out of that laundry list of features. Well that’s where the term Roadmap actually comes from.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over. A Product Leader’s Role in Roadmapping.
The Secret PM Handbook
AUGUST 4, 2017
The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” In this article, I tie the older posts to the framework. The Challenge of Roadmaps. How To Share A Roadmap Without Driving Into A Ditch. The full framework – core and supporting components. Breakthrough!
The Secret PM Handbook
AUGUST 4, 2017
The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” In this article, I tie the older posts to the framework. The Challenge of Roadmaps. How To Share A Roadmap Without Driving Into A Ditch. The full framework – core and supporting components. Breakthrough!
Mixpanel
JULY 22, 2020
Below, I’m sharing a framework that I’ve leveraged to set goals and effectively institute them across an organization. Roadmap. The post A flight-tested framework for effective goal-setting appeared first on Mixpanel. Innovators frameworks goal-setting
The Product Coalition
SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. You might be super excited to go away for 2–3 weeks, conduct market research and come back with a colourful looking roadmap. Creating a product roadmap and getting everyone on board and communicating it and iterating on it is a ton of work and it quickly falls out of sync.
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. The same truism applies to products and their roadmaps. Instead of chasing potential and possibilities, the product roadmap must build on what matters most. Roadmaps
The Product Coalition
JUNE 9, 2021
Part one of this article taught you how to align a roadmap with aspirational business goals. The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. Share that roadmap!
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. Product Frameworks Can Become a Crutch. As a product leader, I encourage my teams to use whichever product frameworks they find helpful.
Inside Intercom
JANUARY 19, 2021
Here’s a simple framework for managing it. A three step framework for tackling the debt. Once we knew we had to tackle our debt, we gleaned insights from our previous experiences to produce a three-step framework for reducing it.
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? A product roadmap is a tool used by PM’s to communicate the what and the why of a product. Your roadmap is used across the whole product lifecycle.
ProductPlan
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability. But while each roadmap for a specific audience serves a particular purpose, there are times when we need everyone to gather together and agree on a singular vision for the product. Creating a roadmap that works for everything and everyone may feel like an impossible task.
TSIA
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
The popular frameworks for assessing value and prioritizing the product roadmap make no distinction of or accommodation for the differing business models.
ProductPlan
JANUARY 24, 2020
Everyone’s going to be a fan of prioritization frameworks that simplify and streamline the process. So, what are the most popular prioritization frameworks of 2020? Digging into the Most Popular Prioritization Frameworks.
Izenda
APRIL 27, 2020
For product managers, determining what’s a priority in your product roadmap can seem more daunting than the actual work. Because once you have clearly defined and planned out your roadmap (and stick to it), staying on course and keeping teams focused becomes much easier.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
Photo by JESHOOTS.com from Pexels By Making Uncertainty Explicit with the Problem, Solution, Delivery framework There is an immense amount of “How to” roadmap articles. An option to improve our roadmaps. product-development product-design product-management portfolio roadmaps
ProductPlan
AUGUST 29, 2019
What are the pitfalls of focusing myopically on features while creating and communicating roadmaps? Feature-based roadmaps have long been the norm of product development, they put product managers in the hot seat to “deliver” the roadmap “to plan.” They created a roadmap based on an idea about what they were going to build and all the features it would encompass. With this feature-based roadmap viewpoint, it was very hard to shift priorities along the way.
ProductPlan
JANUARY 8, 2019
In today’s article, we’ll discuss the agile roadmapping process. We’ll start by reviewing the objectives of roadmaps and planning for agile teams, then share some special considerations for agile roadmaps. From there, we’ll walk you through the agile roadmapping process step by step. Why Agile Teams Need A Product Roadmap. What purposes do product roadmaps serve for agile teams? An agile roadmap is a critical communication tool.
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