The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

There are many issues with having clients drive the roadmap. Firstly, it is impossible to be an industry leader when other people are telling you what you should build. Secondly, waiting for clients to drive the roadmap tends to puts companies in a situation where the backlog becomes too large to practically handle.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test. Sound familiar?

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Bain Public’s associate product managers, Abigail Ramirez Villarroel and Tudor Gafiuc , attended the INDUSTRY: The Product Conference in Cleveland on September 20-21st, 2022. About INDUSTRY. About INDUSTRY's Fireside Chat. QUESTION 1: Do you think that company strategy and product strategy are the same?

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 10, 2017

By Garima Painuly- One of the constant challenges a product manager faces is creating a focused product roadmap that is aligned with expectations of all stakeholders, and defending that roadmap against distractions. The discussion topics were inspired by a blog post from Fresh Tilled Soil on Building a Product Roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

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.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Every software team out there uses some sort of planning system or tool to do product roadmaps and sprint plans, and yet many are unhappy with the tools, or frustrated at the lack of getting things done, or getting “pointless” things done, and the list goes on. What do the product roadmapping or planning tools offer us?

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ProductPlan

APRIL 20, 2022

A product roadmap represents your strategic plan to solve a problem for your market. The reason to share your product roadmap plan with stakeholders is to create transparency and alignment across your company. But your roadmap does not represent an obligation or commitment to accomplish everything on it.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Vikas Batra Product Management Leader, Alcatel-Lucent.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The cohort will go through a 12-week process that includes workshop sessions every 2-weeks hosted by industry experts and in-house entrepreneurs. At Bain Public, we understand the importance of being able to visualize a product’s ecosystem to align product strategies.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 19, 2022

Product managers can find inspiration for their products everywhere, and that’s great. But those inspired ideas can’t go straight onto the roadmap. A product manager first needs to subject a new concept to a process that involves making the case. Then your product leader sees it and says, “Huh?”

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Take product roadmaps for example. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps. This is due to the very process by which the roadmap is developed. Some teams do a team brainstorm and voting exercise to develop their roadmap.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. And if no one realizes it’s wrong or adjusts course quickly, a promising product can become a lost cause. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like?

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Bain Public

JULY 14, 2021

Bain Public acted as an Exclusive Product Advisor to OnDeck Canada in defining their roadmap. Since 2007, OnDeck has delivered over $2 billion to businesses all across the United States in more than 700 industries and has been lending in Canada since 2014. CLIENT ANNOUNCEMENT. Contact us. 514) 442-8487.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Product managers play an important role in steering leadership to evolve the product strategy and corresponding tactics. Companies that are neglecting to take large roadmap bets to competitively capture markets, industries, and geographies will find that this recession will make gaps insurmountable.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

The other key thing to remember here is that market data and research is far more available and reliable for specific market segments and product categories (the portfolio) versus individual products (modules of your platform) because, at that level of granularity, research can be difficult to find. In some cases, yes but not always.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Talk to us.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Said another way, this week’s new “must do” items look like a year’s worth of additions to the roadmap.  ” “Roadmap items X and Y specifically benefit your functional group, and were the ones that your directors prioritized as their top two.  roadmap updates from Product. 

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

We’d spent weeks perfecting the roadmap presentation for our annual customer conference. It felt like people had overlooked all the greatness of our roadmap and were focused on the (relatively few) changes we’d made along the way. For many product people, this is the nightmare scenario of sharing their product roadmap.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The more you know about a customer’s current emotional state, the more you can tailor your marketing campaigns to provide an engaging, helpful experience and adjust your product roadmap to meet customer needs faster. And no, simply targeting customers in your app rather than on the web isn’t enough of a strategy. Conclusion.

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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. It’s not uncommon to find product teams collaborating with folks from engineering, marketing , and customer success. Track progress and note improvement areas.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

ProductPlan and Chameleon’s training empowers product leaders to prioritize features and develop a more strategic product roadmap. Stanford's webinar offers aspiring product managers practical strategies to enter the field, featuring insights from Silicon Valley executives.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build successful products! Roadmapping software visualizes and plans product development over time, facilitating coordination and alignment across teams.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Use ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner for product ideas , feature ideas, product names, etc. Task ChatGPT with identifying and formulating the best pricing strategy for your industry. ChatGPT can create broad multi-year roadmaps that prioritize the most critical feature requests , ideas, or improvements.

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Innovatemap

JULY 2, 2020

A roadmap will help strategically plan a future for your product that will guide you to meet your business goals. As with most products, you probably have 100 initiatives on your list, but the budget and time to only do 25. At the core of any product decision is a business decision. Questions to Guide You. It depends!

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2021

Is this solution something we want to innovate on and own as an industry leader and differentiator, or is it table stakes where we want to be on par with the market? Our SVP of Product, Paul Adams, describes innovation as building something new, different, and better. Is this critical to the company and product strategy?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The product management process starts with building an understanding of your users and the market, defining a vision and strategy , generating and prioritizing ideas that could solve user problems, articulating them in a clear roadmap, launching an MVP, and then gathering feedback to evolve it over time.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

The smartphone industry has been frequently criticized for its negative social and environmental impact, from hazardous e-waste to poor working conditions in supply chains. The product’s appeal may fade over time without a clear purpose that continually motivates and attracts customers. Are you in yet? This is dead wrong.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

To validate ideas , choose the most effective versions, or improve the product , a product manager needs to know how to run experiments. As roadmapping is a key part of the job, good PMs are competent users of product management applications that streamline the process. Product manager skills: market research.

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ProductPlan

JULY 2, 2021

The Learning Center is the central hub of ProductPlan’s content to educate the product community on best practices and industry trends. Similar to Google Search, you can search for anything product management-related. The 2021 State of Product Management Report. The Product Strategy Playbook. What is MoSCoW?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

That’s why some of Intercom’s first marketing hires were product marketers and why we’ve had a “seat at the table” from the early days of the company. . This isn’t always the case across the industry. Luckily, we’re seeing some shifts in the industry. More and more, I see startups hiring PMMs as their first marketer ”.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

A “blue ocean” refers to an untapped market space or industry that is not yet crowded with competitors. It presents a unique opportunity for companies to create and capture new market demand by offering innovative products or services that address unmet customer needs. But what exactly is a micro-delivery?

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The more you know about a customer’s current emotional state, the more you can tailor your marketing campaigns to provide an engaging, helpful experience and adjust your product roadmap to meet customer needs faster. And no, simply targeting customers in your app rather than on the web isn’t enough of a strategy.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2020

but we had no previous training on strategy. Furthermore, there is no clear path to learn product strategy and no agreed-upon “go-to” resource to start developing this muscle. Blue Ocean Strategy Published in 2004, the ideas of professors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne quickly gained popularity.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2019

A great partnership between product and sales needs to be based on shared definitions of success and an agreed upon process to collaborate. “If your product team isn’t taking roadmap input from your sales team, you’re not listening to the potential market” Second, sales and product need a way to collaborate on the product roadmap.

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