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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. Goal-oriented roadmaps focus on goals or objectives like acquiring customers, increasing engagement, and removing technical debt. 8 Make your Roadmap Measurable. MORE
Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash There is a misconception that building a roadmap will define a product’s future. But a roadmap doesn’t create a clear view of the future. Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. So why build a roadmap at all? MORE
In Part 2 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, we take a look at yet more insights shared by a group of senior product leaders during #mtpcon 2019 (if you missed Part 1, take a look here). One way of moving them away from three-year roadmaps and project investment, is to get them to look at funding in an investment cycle. The post Insights from the #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum – Part 2 appeared first on Mind the Product. MORE
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. Stakeholders see product managers attending meetings, writing stories, presenting roadmaps or presenting shipment data. MORE
In Part 3 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, you can see an overview of the remaining insights from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum (if you missed them, you can take a look back at Part 1 and Part 2). Then see what they put on their backlog or roadmap. The post Insights from the #mtpcon Product Leadership Forum – Part 3 appeared first on Mind the Product. MORE
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. Imagine if you could engage industry experts in an informative dialog to gain valuable insights in helping you craft and master your own roadmaps. A roadmap is fuel to the fire in our bellies. MORE
The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. What’s more, do not de-prioritise your leadership work even when push comes to shove and you are pressed for time. No Transactional Power. MORE
For our recent book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty (O’Reilly), my co-authors C. One concept I really wish we’d had space for is the idea of providing a rearward view of the roadmap — essentially a summary of what’s been delivered in the recent past — as a way to set context for the forward-looking portion of the roadmap. We talk a lot in the book about explaining the “why” of your roadmap. MORE
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?” ux leadership product-leadership startup product-management MORE
Before hiring a product leader, you need to ensure that you understand the most essential product leadership interview questions that can help better inform your hiring decision. . 6 Product Leadership Interview Questions to Ask. MORE
He has a background in the public and private sectors and he begins his ProductTank NYC presentation with a quote from Steve Jobs, which underpins the central concept of Servant Leadership. Josh takes a brief moment to look at the roadmap of local government. To describe the diverse behaviours of work environments where flexible forms of product leadership is essential, Josh also looks at the structures of some big companies, like Amazon and Microsoft. MORE
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. The post Product Leadership at News UK by Jo Wickremasinghe appeared first on Mind the Product. Product Leadership Product Management Skills News UK product leadership product-led roadmaps The Sun The Times MORE
The Product Leadership struggle is akin to the Entrepreneurship struggle because the role has no clear learning path. This conversation reduces barriers and shows your leadership skills, particularly your openness as a leader to team contribution and the opportunity for the team to create their own narrative. Setting the wheels in motion to create a set of Product Principles should begin to lift some of the fog from ‘The Product Leadership Struggle’. Roadmaps MORE
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. Boston Women in Product (BWP) hosted “Product Roadmaps: A Roundtable Discussion” on March 28th, 2017. Creating a Focused Product Roadmap. MORE
The managers want rigid roadmaps. However, the managers create a roadmap similar to the image above. That roadmap has large features and long “deadlines.” The managers created a Gantt Chart as a picture, not a roadmap. Remember: Roadmaps offer options. MORE
so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”. Product roadmaps are overloaded with significance and are a source of uncertainty among product managers. If you’re only going to read one thing: Product Roadmaps Relaunched. MORE
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. Product Leadership product ops MORE
When I talk about roadmaps with younger product leaders, I often hear things like “we don’t need one, we are agile” or “why build a roadmap when things will surely change”. The Benefits of a Roadmap Do Not Contradict Agility The roadmap is not a work plan. MORE
The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. What’s more, do not de-prioritise your leadership work even when push comes to shove and you are pressed for time. No Transactional Power. MORE
Product roadmaps: love 'em or hate 'em, you probably spend a lot of time on them. Very often, that colorful set of bars on the timeline that we artfully sell to our leadership inadvertently leads to challenges down the road. Guest Post Product Roadmap MORE
Bruce McCarthy was the president of the Boston Product Management Association, is the founder of consultancy Product Culture and co-wrote the book on roadmapping, Product Roadmaps Relaunched. He joined us live at the Mind the Product Leadership Forum to chat about how he builds his own roadmaps, prioritisation, product vision, OKRs and quite a bit more. The biggest mistake people make on roadmaps. Roadmaps vs release plans. OKRs v roadmaps. MORE
So what does this mean for Product teams, and specifically product leadership? Tear up the roadmap & OKRs. product-leadership teamwork leadership product-managementI’ve spent most of my career working in the travel industry. MORE
That leads to large and unchangeable roadmaps and a lot of emphasis on predictability. This means you can create a product roadmap and a backlog. If you can't write that down, you can't build a roadmap or a backlog. I wait to start roadmaps once I have the project portfolio. MORE
You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. Step 3: Review the existing product roadmap. MORE
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. Product Leadership product ops MORE
Three Types of Leadership. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. While the three roles exercise different leadership, the people involved must effectively collaborate to achieve product success and align product strategy, roadmap, backlog, design and technology, and process decisions—without losing focus of their respective core responsibility. [1]. The post Product Leadership in Scrum appeared first on Roman Pichler. MORE
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. Share that roadmap! MORE
This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ? How to Roadmap like an Essentialist. The Planning Board is tied to the roadmap. MORE
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. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over. A Product Leader’s Role in Roadmapping. MORE
Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. You may want to combine reviewing the market development together with the product performance in form of regular strategy and roadmap review meetings (as I discuss in more detail in my book Strategize ). Product Leadership empowerment mindfulness product manager product ownerIncrease Your Referent Power. MORE
You have a strategy AND a roadmap, they’re two different things. leadership product-strategy startup product-leadership product-managementContinue reading on Product Coalition ». MORE
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. MORE
At last week’s #mtpcon San Francisco Product Leadership Forum, senior product professionals got together to discuss the current hot topics of career paths, talent management, and psychological safety. Creating a healthy team environment often means saying “no” to leadership requests, but in many companies this can have a negative impact on the product manager’s rewards and recognition. MORE
Important roadmap deadlines? What if I told you the team is celebrating the fact that they released the new version of their product a day before the internal deadline on their roadmap? Themes—Not Dates—Are the Stars of Your Roadmap. Where’s the story behind this roadmap? MORE
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. Why Have a Roadmap Conversation With Your Customer? ” The sales rep can say: “Yes, that’s currently on the roadmap for Q1.” MORE
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? A product roadmap is a tool used by PM’s to communicate the what and the why of a product. Your roadmap is used across the whole product lifecycle. MORE
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. MORE
It’s time to replace your roadmap […]. The post Replace Your Roadmap With a Responsive Portfolio to Drive Outcomes appeared first on Dragonboat - Responsive PPM. Product Leadership Webinars CPO portfolio allocation prioritization product portfolio management MORE
Resilient Leadership During Challenging Times. We reviewed our product roadmap with an eye toward “what do our customers need now ?” If you and your leadership team have hired right, then, hopefully, you have a deep bench of intrinsically motivated people. Roadmaps MORE
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Product roadmaps: love 'em or hate 'em, you probably spend a lot of time on them. Very often, that colorful set of bars on the timeline that we artfully sell to our leadership inadvertently leads to challenges down the road. Guest Post Product Roadmap
bpma ProductHub
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
For our recent book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty (O’Reilly), my co-authors C. One concept I really wish we’d had space for is the idea of providing a rearward view of the roadmap — essentially a summary of what’s been delivered in the recent past — as a way to set context for the forward-looking portion of the roadmap. We talk a lot in the book about explaining the “why” of your roadmap.
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Roman Pichler
MARCH 11, 2020
The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. What’s more, do not de-prioritise your leadership work even when push comes to shove and you are pressed for time. No Transactional Power.
Roman Pichler
MARCH 11, 2020
The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. What’s more, do not de-prioritise your leadership work even when push comes to shove and you are pressed for time. No Transactional Power.
Speaker: Brett Truka, CEO, Devetry
A product roadmap needs to both capture your product’s strategy and outline your execution plan. Because these documents are such an essential component of your job as product manager, you also need to strategize your roadmap presentation. In other words, you need to speak your executive suite’s language. In this webinar, Brett Truka, CEO of Devetry, shares his experiences and advice on how to successfully sell your roadmap to your leadership team.
Roman Pichler
MAY 8, 2018
Three Types of Leadership. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. While the three roles exercise different leadership, the people involved must effectively collaborate to achieve product success and align product strategy, roadmap, backlog, design and technology, and process decisions—without losing focus of their respective core responsibility. [1]. The post Product Leadership in Scrum appeared first on Roman Pichler.
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. Product Leadership product ops
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?” ux leadership product-leadership startup product-management
Johanna Rothman
JULY 29, 2021
The managers want rigid roadmaps. However, the managers create a roadmap similar to the image above. That roadmap has large features and long “deadlines.” The managers created a Gantt Chart as a picture, not a roadmap. Remember: Roadmaps offer options.
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. Goal-oriented roadmaps focus on goals or objectives like acquiring customers, increasing engagement, and removing technical debt. 8 Make your Roadmap Measurable.
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ProductPlan
MARCH 5, 2021
This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ? How to Roadmap like an Essentialist. The Planning Board is tied to the roadmap.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Bruce McCarthy was the president of the Boston Product Management Association, is the founder of consultancy Product Culture and co-wrote the book on roadmapping, Product Roadmaps Relaunched. He joined us live at the Mind the Product Leadership Forum to chat about how he builds his own roadmaps, prioritisation, product vision, OKRs and quite a bit more. The biggest mistake people make on roadmaps. Roadmaps vs release plans. OKRs v roadmaps.
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. Imagine if you could engage industry experts in an informative dialog to gain valuable insights in helping you craft and master your own roadmaps. A roadmap is fuel to the fire in our bellies.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”. Product roadmaps are overloaded with significance and are a source of uncertainty among product managers. If you’re only going to read one thing: Product Roadmaps Relaunched.
The Product Coalition
JUNE 9, 2021
Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash There is a misconception that building a roadmap will define a product’s future. But a roadmap doesn’t create a clear view of the future. Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. So why build a roadmap at all?
Johanna Rothman
JULY 22, 2021
That leads to large and unchangeable roadmaps and a lot of emphasis on predictability. This means you can create a product roadmap and a backlog. If you can't write that down, you can't build a roadmap or a backlog. I wait to start roadmaps once I have the project portfolio.
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. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over. A Product Leader’s Role in Roadmapping.
The Product Coalition
JUNE 28, 2020
So what does this mean for Product teams, and specifically product leadership? Tear up the roadmap & OKRs. product-leadership teamwork leadership product-managementI’ve spent most of my career working in the travel industry.
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. Product Leadership product ops
BrainMates
JANUARY 21, 2019
The Product Leadership struggle is akin to the Entrepreneurship struggle because the role has no clear learning path. This conversation reduces barriers and shows your leadership skills, particularly your openness as a leader to team contribution and the opportunity for the team to create their own narrative. Setting the wheels in motion to create a set of Product Principles should begin to lift some of the fog from ‘The Product Leadership Struggle’. Roadmaps
Roman Pichler
APRIL 19, 2017
Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. You may want to combine reviewing the market development together with the product performance in form of regular strategy and roadmap review meetings (as I discuss in more detail in my book Strategize ). Product Leadership empowerment mindfulness product manager product ownerIncrease Your Referent Power.
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.
ProductPlan
DECEMBER 15, 2020
You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. Step 3: Review the existing product roadmap.
ProductPlan
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Important roadmap deadlines? What if I told you the team is celebrating the fact that they released the new version of their product a day before the internal deadline on their roadmap? Themes—Not Dates—Are the Stars of Your Roadmap. Where’s the story behind this roadmap?
ProductPlan
MAY 19, 2020
Resilient Leadership During Challenging Times. We reviewed our product roadmap with an eye toward “what do our customers need now ?” If you and your leadership team have hired right, then, hopefully, you have a deep bench of intrinsically motivated people. Roadmaps
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.
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. Why Have a Roadmap Conversation With Your Customer? ” The sales rep can say: “Yes, that’s currently on the roadmap for Q1.”
Dragonboat
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
It’s time to replace your roadmap […]. The post Replace Your Roadmap With a Responsive Portfolio to Drive Outcomes appeared first on Dragonboat - Responsive PPM. Product Leadership Webinars CPO portfolio allocation prioritization product portfolio management
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. The post Product Leadership at News UK by Jo Wickremasinghe appeared first on Mind the Product. Product Leadership Product Management Skills News UK product leadership product-led roadmaps The Sun The Times
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 23, 2019
In Part 3 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, you can see an overview of the remaining insights from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum (if you missed them, you can take a look back at Part 1 and Part 2). Then see what they put on their backlog or roadmap. The post Insights from the #mtpcon Product Leadership Forum – Part 3 appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Coalition
MAY 9, 2021
When I talk about roadmaps with younger product leaders, I often hear things like “we don’t need one, we are agile” or “why build a roadmap when things will surely change”. The Benefits of a Roadmap Do Not Contradict Agility The roadmap is not a work plan.
Mind the Product
JULY 23, 2019
At last week’s #mtpcon San Francisco Product Leadership Forum, senior product professionals got together to discuss the current hot topics of career paths, talent management, and psychological safety. Creating a healthy team environment often means saying “no” to leadership requests, but in many companies this can have a negative impact on the product manager’s rewards and recognition.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 12, 2017
He has a background in the public and private sectors and he begins his ProductTank NYC presentation with a quote from Steve Jobs, which underpins the central concept of Servant Leadership. Josh takes a brief moment to look at the roadmap of local government. To describe the diverse behaviours of work environments where flexible forms of product leadership is essential, Josh also looks at the structures of some big companies, like Amazon and Microsoft.
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. Stakeholders see product managers attending meetings, writing stories, presenting roadmaps or presenting shipment data.
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. Boston Women in Product (BWP) hosted “Product Roadmaps: A Roundtable Discussion” on March 28th, 2017. Creating a Focused Product Roadmap.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 22, 2019
In Part 2 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, we take a look at yet more insights shared by a group of senior product leaders during #mtpcon 2019 (if you missed Part 1, take a look here). One way of moving them away from three-year roadmaps and project investment, is to get them to look at funding in an investment cycle. The post Insights from the #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum – Part 2 appeared first on Mind the Product.
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. Share that roadmap!
ProductPlan
JULY 30, 2021
Before hiring a product leader, you need to ensure that you understand the most essential product leadership interview questions that can help better inform your hiring decision. . 6 Product Leadership Interview Questions to Ask.
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? A product roadmap is a tool used by PM’s to communicate the what and the why of a product. Your roadmap is used across the whole product lifecycle.
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