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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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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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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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.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In his book “Start with Why” , Simon Sinek boldly claims that the ‘Why’ behind your actions matters more than the ‘What’ This principle isn’t limited to leadership or personal motivation; it extends to every facet of the business, including product roadmaps. So how to create and present roadmaps effectively?

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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. So what can you do?

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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. Take product roadmaps for example. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Here’s why it’s important: Defines a product vision and aligns strategy with organization goals. Champions a customer-centric approach.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

How NOT to manage a Startup As a product manager, I led 2 teams in my recent startup gig with a lot of uncertainty, distractions and constant changes that impacted the engineers. A startup that is trying to scale, there are good and bad times. There was no buy-in on the company vision across the company.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

With us is David Rogers, an expert on digital transformation, a member of the faculty at Columbia Business School, and the author of five books, including The Digital Transformation Roadmap. Creating a new startup is a different challenge. Your vision must be rooted in your particular business and unique capabilities.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2018

That is what I´m calling “magical framework”. So, in this post I want to do the opposite: I won´t give you one more “magical framework”. If you do not have a clear vision of what problems you are trying to solve, you don´t know which features and tasks to prioritize or the value users will notice in your product.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 6, 2018

At eFounders , we launch 4 new startups each year. As the head of content marketing at eFounders, I’ve come to rely on a loose framework to make these products talk, interact and connect with their users, each with their own, readily recognizable voice. That’s typically where marketing comes in. Do what fits.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 21, 2020

In collaboration with Notman House and chosen from a list of 13 startups, starting January 2020, we will be providing our Product Capability Building Program for Pre-Seed Founders, pro bono to LUCA Theory, a rising Montreal startup. The standout component is our one-on-one time with the startup founders. Who is LUCA Theory?

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Bain Public, we’re proud to offer free one-on-one sessions, discounted rates and lead pro-bono partnership efforts, donating company time to provide product-driven startups with expert advice and coaching about product management. In giving back, we’ve established a way to positively impact the Canadian startup ecosystem.

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Mixpanel

JULY 22, 2020

As an engineering leader, startup co-founder, and former PM heading up supply growth at Airbnb, I’ve learned a lot about successful goal-setting. Below, I’m sharing a framework that I’ve leveraged to set goals and effectively institute them across an organization. Why set goals. All together, it looks something like this: Mission ?

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

Not enough people spend enough time on defining vision and purpose Most value propositions are weak Companies don’t adapt their team typology to make a product Very few products are indeed prioritized by value User Reasearch and UX are ofter used in the wrong way 1. Try and fill a product vision board. targeted and user centric.

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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. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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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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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. How do you set a product vision? How do you create a roadmap? Strategy is made up of three elements: your vision, objectives and roadmap. How do you set a product vision?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In my last blog, we talked about being a PM in a Startup. You will be spending a bit of your roadmap patching up all the crappy short cuts that has taken you here. Create a framework to evaluate and prioritise product ideas. Lean Canvas, or Product Vision Boards) Be creative and work around the constraints of existing tech.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Just like any product you need to have a vision, strategy, values, roadmap, goals, and metrics for your team. Vision, Strategy, and Values Just like any product, you must envision how you want your team to look like and be perceived. Roadmap Just like any product, you will not have everything from the start.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

You can take a new grad, give them a RICE framework, and they will make some solid product prioritization decisions. Maybe no one wants to self-identify as the builder, because the logic of simply following a framework and defined process to ‘get the job done’ sounds sort of boring?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

About the author – Else van der Berg Else has over a decade of experience working for startups and scaleups but is currently an interim Product Lead/Advisor at Value Rebels. She also founded SaaS consulting firm, Sonderhouse , through which she teams up with other experts to provide sound education and coaching for SaaS startups.

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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. I even facilitated a few design sprints and started sprinkling in concepts from these frameworks in meetings with stakeholders. I think we need a new framework!” Yeah… that didn’t happen.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

To avoid falling into the trap, set clear and realistic objectives that are aligned with the product vision. Pick the right prioritization framework and make data-driven prioritization decisions to manage the roadmap. This eventually leads to product failure, and in the case of smaller startups – business failure.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2023

However, I can certainly think of product or marketing professionals who use the term value when referring to cheap widgety dashboards and features aimed at novelty seekers, or following an industry trend with no real vision. To answer this question, we’ll use the “Jobs to be Done” (JTBD) framework.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

This entails studying the frameworks and approaches that product managers favor over others to ensure the smooth running of all processes across cross-functional product teams. Create a fictitious startup within the SaaS industry. Work with real SaaS startups as an intern. What is Saas Product Manager’s Job Description?

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Ask Benny

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Just like any product you need to have a vision, strategy, values, roadmap, goals, and metrics for your team. Vision, Strategy, and Values Just like any product, you must envision how you want your team to look like and be perceived. Roadmap Just like any product, you will not have everything from the start.

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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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Usersnap

JULY 22, 2021

Managing a newly launched product and thinking about the vision and roadmap of your product isn’t that easy. And sometimes talking with colleagues, friends and your first users will make you even more doubtful about certain new features and your roadmap. Gathering product and user information using product feedback tools.

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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. Public roadmaps communicate your feature development plans to your user community and allow them to provide feedback. Are you ready?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Just like any product you need to have a vision, strategy, values, roadmap, goals, and metrics for your team. Vision, Strategy, and Values. Just like any startup you will start very lean and scale as you grow. If you have your vision you already know what you want in order to get there. Growth Minded.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Just like any product you need to have a vision, strategy, values, roadmap, goals, and metrics for your team. Vision, Strategy, and Values. Just like any startup you will start very lean and scale as you grow. If you have your vision you already know what you want in order to get there. Growth Minded.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We’re proud to say that we’ve given over 1000 hours of pro bono work since 2018 for young up and coming startups and entrepreneurs; we take corporate responsibility very seriously. As a business, we want to achieve success in ways that honour our ethical values as well as respect startups and accelerator communities.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Michael explores how to do product management the best in terms of product strategy and vision, product development frameworks, customer research, and startups. Our approach, product, expert advice and coaching helps entangle complex technology, people and roadmap dynamics. About the Episode.

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Ask Benny

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Just like any product you need to have a vision, strategy, values, roadmap, goals, and metrics for your team. Vision, Strategy, and Values. Just like any startup you will start very lean and scale as you grow. If you have your vision you already know what you want in order to get there. Growth Minded.

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