Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product. The GO Product Roadmap is the template I have developed to capture an outcome-based roadmap. There are two effective ways in which the individual can be involved. You can therefore use both frameworks together. [3]

Systems Review

Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Now that I have experienced AI-augmented product management and leadership, I don’t think I could work for a company where AI wasn’t allowed. Previously, in order to avoid becoming a bottleneck, I could review only high-stakes communications, like emails to the CEO or all-hands presentations.

User Testing

Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

.” For example, if a UX writer identifies an impending design conflict and corrals multiple product teams to reconcile it, make sure they know how much you appreciate their leadership. ” Company roadmaps might be linear, but customer insights from outside the building are (rightfully) a jungle.

Product Research

Tyner Blain

MARCH 2, 2025

Leadership tells us the big projects they’ve decided to do, it’s up to us to elaborate and execute.” It is bounded, but it is present. Once that awareness is present, the customer shifts into shopping and buying a solution. Further, leadership assumed there are more support agents than needed.

Customer Experience

People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This guide distills the key lessons and actionable strategies from my journey, offering you a roadmap to navigate your own career pivots in the tech industry. Share Leadership Lessons from Career Transitions Embrace calculated risks : Each of my transitions involved stepping into unknown territory. to offer 24/7 coaching services.

Data Visualization

Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. The plan or roadmap is basically an ordered list of projects based on some notion of prioritization and sequence of delivery.

Strategy

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2024

One such area is roadmap planning. My recommendation for roadmap planning is to start top-down, from the company’s strategy itself, understand it in depth, and only then start planning how you are going to make it a reality. If the CEO needs a presentation for Tuesday you need to have it ready for Tuesday.

Healthcare

People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 30, 2025

Try this exercise: Take your current roadmap and ask "Why?" When presenting to executives, Maya used data to back up her points, leveraging her analytical strengths and making an impact. A - Audience, assess your position with colleagues, stakeholders, and leadership (skills, impact, satisfaction). Most importantly, it works.

User Testing

Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

This will involve close collaboration with Stripe’s and our financial partners product and engineering organizations to prioritize valuable investments over a multi-quarter roadmap, considering distribution potential, performance, costs, and risks. Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.

Research Software

BrainMates

JULY 2, 2025

This is where strong leadership and the right tools can make all the difference. Provide Leadership in the Development of Roadmaps A roadmap is a critical tool for alignment. A robust roadmap is not handed down, it’s co-created. Establish Transparent Workflows Ambiguity can stall progress.

Product Research

Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Use your background in developing digital products, encouraging collaboration on growth projects across departments, ensuring product quality, and demonstrating effective leadership to support Firefox’s growth. Strong team leadership: 5+ years of direct PM management experience. Image] Who would be the best fit for this job?

Analytic Tools

Revulytics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

On the final day of the event, they had the opportunity to hear Ed Catmull, co-founder and president of Pixar, who discussed his leadership strategies and how they contribute to building a healthy culture within an organization. Leveraging Personality Types to Drive Effective Leadership.

Roadmap

Arkenea

MAY 12, 2025

Recent geopolitical instability in the region has also raised concerns about business continuity and long-term engagement reliability, a risk that India with its stable democratic government and established IT policies doesn’t present. The region produces approximately 30,000 CS graduates annually compared to India’s 1.5

Reporting Tools

Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[ It is therefore called assigned leadership.[

Leadership

The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Allow for workshops where team members from other teams are invited to give a presentation (e.g., A new leadership role is also a good opportunity to assess and evaluate whether you have the right skill sets and resource capacity in your team. how to write user stories, stakeholder management, how to define value proposition).

Leadership

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.

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it. Smaller strategy updates and product roadmapping decisions, however, are not as critical. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. Additionally, the team should have ownership of the plans that contain the goals: the product strategy and the product roadmap , as shown in Figure 2 above. [4] People have to know that they won’t be penalised when they make a mistake.

Reporting Tools

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. Lack of change in capabilities: Your technology stack may not have been brought up to the present era. You may have an inflexible structure.

Artificial Inteligence

Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Often, companies approach me asking for help with their product strategy and they’re really focused on the roadmap. While the roadmap and choosing features is the last step of product strategy, it’s not the whole picture. 11:03] How is senior leadership involved in product strategy? Download the framework.

Product Strategy

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?” However, this presents two new challenges for Product Leaders: How do you lead a group of leaders?

Leadership

The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

It forced me to question a belief, as a product leader, I treated as an absolute — that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Then I thought further; maybe scenarios exist where roadmaps are optional. Roadmaps are not always needed. Roadmaps early on tend to box you in.

Roadmap

Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

For an introduction on how to use the Wardley Mapping approach to illustrate the landscape and initiate change, check out their presentation. The post Carbon Neutral Roadmaps – Chris Adams on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Emily Cunningham. Have you seen someone give a great talk? Talk to us.

Product Research

Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

These are the business strategy , which is also referred to as corporate strategy , the product portfolio strategy , the technology strategy, and the product strategy , as well as the product roadmap , the technology roadmap, and the product backlog. The latter, in turn, drives the product roadmap, which directs the product backlog.

Research Software

Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Hard skills like market research or roadmapping are important, but they’re not enough. Product leaders can’t succeed if they neglect people skills and leadership skills. Don’t be overly critical or judgmental; be present for them. Don’t be overly critical or judgmental; be present for them.

Agile

Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

The most obvious way to be output-oriented is to give your teams a roadmap that lists features and release dates and ask them to deliver against that roadmap. The value of this approach is that rather than having all of the decision-making power come from the leadership team, it gets diffused to the teams closest to your customers.

Product Research

Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2018

For example, the roadmap will likely be a collection of stakeholder requirements and you’ll be often told to just get on and do it. Shared Objectives Allow Laser-focused Roadmaps. If it didn’t contribute, it didn’t get onto the roadmap and it didn’t get done. Present yourself as someone who brings people together.

Leadership

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

Always callout non-goals, in addition to the goals for a leadership review you are leading Earlier on in my PM career, while I would call out the explicit goals and feedback I needed from leadership reviews, I never took the time to communicate what we would not discuss. Context Setting Slide I include for all presentations 2.

Product Manager

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.

Roadmap

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.

Roadmap

The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. So as he leaned across the table and looked me in the eyes, he demanded, “Explain why I need a product roadmap.” Why not, indeed?

Roadmap

Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap? At what cadence do you do that?

User Testing

The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2019

Past, Present and Future. Present: What is the current sprint or work we should be doing today? Do we need to tweak the roadmap? Future, Present and Past: Future is our backlogs, both development and opportunity backlog (I’m a big fan of Jeff Patton’s dual track ). Second is present ?—?this Future: What’s next??—?basically

Presentation

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. So I have a strong sense of what product managers want. Swing a bigger stick.

Leadership

Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Lisa soon realized that her team was turning to her for guidance on the orchestration roadmap. This vision could then be broken down into parts that could be prioritized and fed into the roadmap. It also worked as a way to get leadership buy-in to where the team was heading overall.”. Part 1: The Design Sprint. Tweet This.

Product Research

The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

In my view, he or she should have these main skills: manage the release process and roadmap prioritization, be able to suggest technical solutions during discussions with developers, and be knowledgeable in all the tools and terminology of the Agile process. He honed his leadership skills during his participation in the program.

Product Manager