Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The next part of our 'How to to lead your product' series. Kate Cladis discusses how to lead your product by keeping calm and using roadmaps. [.] Read more » The post How to lead your product – Part 2: Problems and roadmaps appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. A roadmap example.

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Gocious Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Navigating these new challenges requires a product manager with strong leadership and organizational skills to manage them. Product roadmaps are a useful tool with several features that helps to guide and keep track of the process.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. Sharing the four leadership motions with us is Janice Fraser. They want you in person.”

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Roadmaps require massive prioritization. It’s nice, but there is a much higher level of prioritization that needs to happen and would impact your roadmap much more. Here is how to discuss priorities at the right level. The same happens with your roadmap. It’s All About Impact Roadmaps are here for a number of reasons.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. Does the roadmap align with the north star?

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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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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Roadmapping has become a political problem. Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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Dragonboat

MARCH 5, 2024

Ryan Polk, a seasoned Chief Product Officer (CPO) with nearly three decades of experience in engineering and product management, recently shared his insights during a CPO Series webinar focused on choosing the right roadmap tool.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

As the customer success manager (CSM) role evolves into more of a strategic customer leadership role versus a tactical reactionary role, it’s critical to build relationships with customer executives, and in most cases, it’s not as difficult as you think. How to uncover needs for greater adoption, cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2023

How Product Roadmaps Bridge the Gap and Fuel Success. “A A product roadmap is a tool for communication and alignment. It tells the story of where you are, where you are going, and how you will get there. Central to this journey is the product roadmap. I panic; a roadmap, I think to myself, puzzled.

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Dragonboat

AUGUST 30, 2021

Imagine this… You’re a new product operations manager joining a company that’s reached product-market fit, has a few product managers, and a brand new Chief Product Officer who wants to move away from feature-based roadmapping to outcome-driven roadmaps.

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bpma ProductHub

MARCH 24, 2017

By Boston Women in Product – The product roadmap frames every task and is the lifeblood of delivering a successful product. Boston Women in Product has been considering the importance of mastering the product roadmap as a critical responsibility of the product manager. A roadmap is fuel to the fire in our bellies.

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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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Modus Create

MARCH 17, 2022

Executives across industries are reimagining leadership principles that thrive in an agile business environment — principles that don’t treat change as an anomaly but a culture. . What is Agile Leadership? 5 Principles of Agile Leadership. Here are five agile leadership principles that have served us well: 1.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2021

And just like I encourage trios to share their discovery context before they share their roadmaps and backlogs, I’ll do the same here, before I talk about my plans for the year ahead. I have no idea how to count the number of teams in the world who work in trios, nor can I monitor their discovery cadence.

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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. We discuss how we’ve approached it historically at Intercom and how this process has evolved with us to make room for a wider audience. 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. We discuss how we’ve approached it historically at Intercom and how this process has evolved with us to make room for a wider audience. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

Random Feature Roadmap for One Program. Until schools teach collaboration, most of the people in our industry need to learn how to collaborate. However, some smart people need to learn how to work with others. At the top of this post, I added an image of a random, focus-less roadmap. I had to learn to collaborate.

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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.

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

If not, you may find people are uncertain how to prioritize or know where to focus as the ultimate direction is unclear. Be Curious Not Judgmental: In my course People-First Product Leadership , I do just that - I share how to put people on your team first. How a leader takes responsibility: They admit fallibility.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2020

Funding your Product Roadmap How do you ask for funding as you scale your product & team You have a product roadmap (annual / multi-year) in front of you, crafted by you after months of deliberation, discussions, conversations, stakeholder and leadership feedback and reviews.

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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. This step gets into what people think of when they ask for a roadmap.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. Then, I created a product roadmap to move that strategy forward, which ultimately drove a 15% increase in revenue and a 20% increase in retention. I believe in focusing on outcomes to power-up aligning your product strategy with business goals onto a roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

that products always require roadmaps. Given the shock of the question, I honestly forget exactly how we arrived at the moment and what led to it. “Do Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Then I thought further; maybe complete scenarios exist where roadmaps aren’t needed. Tell me your perspective.”,

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The focus on profitability really fortifies the importance of collaborative decision-making between product managers and the leadership team. By molding your pillars properly, not only will you capture a roadmap initiative’s most important purpose for existence, but you’ll also ensure alignment with stakeholders! Final Thoughts.

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Dragonboat

AUGUST 30, 2021

Imagine this… You’re a new product operations manager joining a company that’s reached product-market fit, has a few product managers, and a brand new Chief Product Officer who wants to move away from feature-based roadmapping to outcome-driven roadmaps.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers), I talk with lots of senior individual contributors about the risks and challenges of moving “up the ladder” into product leadership roles. How to signal interest in a Director role . Let’s dig in!

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

This includes product managers , marketing managers , customer success managers , and anyone else who wants to learn how to attract more users, improve the user experience, and increase product adoption. Product management and leadership speakers. The event is for anyone responsible for driving growth for their product.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time? Managers and leaders are different.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

NAVIGATING THE NATURAL TENSION AMONG STAKEHOLDERS This is the first in a series on product roadmaps. The first post describes why roadmaps matter and who relies upon them. The roadmap is much more than a directive document that tells teams what to do by when. Battleground The product roadmap. Can I make more money?

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. You’ve met the people.

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