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A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Roman Pichler

Overview of the Learning Roadmap. Like a modern product roadmap, a learning roadmap states the specific outcomes or benefits you’d like to achieve to become a more competent product person, and it captures them in form of learning goals. To make these ideas more concrete, let’s look at a sample learning roadmap.

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Beyond the Book: Navigating the Real-World Challenges of Managing a Product Roadmap

The Product Coalition

Kris Gale As a wise man once said, no roadmap survives contact with reality. Firefighting while staying on course on the strategy and commitments of the roadmap is difficult. Like a forest never cleaned, filled with leaves, debris, and branches catches fire quickly, managing a roadmap left to rot is challenging.

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Avoid ‘Product’ Ground Hog Day: Unlocking Success When Crafting an Outcome-Driven Roadmap

The Product Coalition

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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The Power of Product Lifecycle Management: Steering Product Roadmaps to Success

The Product Coalition

roadmaps?” If you haven’t gathered from my past posts on product topics, I’ve worked with ‘interesting yet easily annoyed’ colleagues many times. Executing a product roadmap requires more. It involves significant orchestration well beyond the boundaries of the product. Changes that you must reflect in the roadmap.

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Building a Multi-Dimensional Roadmap

The Product Coalition

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. These are the exact questions you need to ask when creating your roadmap. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap.

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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When Do I Need A Product Roadmap? The Answer May Surprise You

The Product Coalition

that products always require roadmaps. My mentor and I started in our usual spot, talking start-ups, and new products in the healthcare industry. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Then I thought further; maybe complete scenarios exist where roadmaps aren’t needed. An hour flew by.

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