Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur. What strategies do you use to prioritize your product roadmap? About Jessi: Jessi is a director, technical product manager, SAP Concur.

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2025

This new Patreon-exclusive article in the Roadmap to Mastery series explores how to lead feature removals with evidence, clarity, and confidence. Feature bloat slows teams down, confuses users, and hides the real value of your product. But most teams avoid removals because they feel risky, political, or like an admission of failure.

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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.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

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. By taking on more responsibilities, I need to demonstrate leadership and gain the confidence and trust of my stakeholders. Resource management. Stakeholder engagement. Educate stakeholders.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. The cross-functional development team makes the design and technology decisions; and the Scrum Master guides process and organisational change, as the following picture shows. Lead the Product.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves. It also provides concrete recommendations for improvements.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills. And yet…we all seem to stay hung up on technical skills. Here we’re going into asking the age-old question: do Product Managers need technical skills? Why does learning new tech skills feel like such an insurmountable challenge?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

1] Figure 1: A Product Strategy System You can use the model in Figure 1 to review and improve your current product strategy approach. 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.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A real-world case study of how strategic influence drove a 20% increase in engagement and reduced technical debt. Read it now: [link] Exclusive Access to Mastery This post is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , a premium series on The Product Way Patreon. How are you preparing for the future of product leadership?

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

It’s not about finding the right tech stack; it’s about finding the tech stack that works for your team. When it comes to the tools that support your continuous discovery, it’s not about finding the right tech stack. It’s about finding the tech stack that works for your team. Tweet This.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

He is convinced that product is the single most important success driver for tech companies, which is why he founded Prodify to share what he learned from being an advisor to over 50 tech companies to realize their full potential. Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

You’re Stuckand It’s Because You’re Playing by the Rules In product management, youve been told to follow the rules: stick to the roadmap, build consensus, and hit your OKRs. As can be easily found in many organizations: Roadmaps trap you in outdated plans. Rule 1: Trust the Roadmap Roadmaps are your comfort zone.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. It’s important that they have the right skills to spot and evaluate design and technology opportunities and to develop a rough understanding of the likely effort required to implement product decisions.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Market Analysis Before and With AI Customers are clamoring for a number of improvements to your product and youre on a mission to get them funded and on the roadmap. AI has no idea which sales deals are hinging on your roadmap. AI doesnt know if anything on your proposed roadmap will open up new markets, etc.

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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”.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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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. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition. As Superman puts it, “You are much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.”. Strengthen Your Expertise.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This article is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collectionavailable exclusively on The Product Way Patreon. Dont miss outunlock the full article today: [link] Exclusive Access to Mastery This post is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , a premium series on The Product Way Patreon. Ready to future-proof your PM career?

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Additionally, you’ve invited the senior management sponsor to the upcoming sprint review meeting to secure the individual’s continued support. An agile team is responsible for planning and tracking the work, reviewing the progress on a daily basis, and deciding how the work should be done to maximise the chances to meet the sprint goal.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, the marketing strategy, the user experience (UX) design and technology choices have to align to successfully acquire new users, increase conversion, or meet another product goal. Influence and Trust as Leadership Building Blocks. You might do this, for example, by running collaborative product strategy reviews.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2025

In our newest Patreon-exclusive Roadmap to Mastery article , we explore: The types of questions that unlock clarity across customers, teams, and stakeholders. This is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collectionavailable exclusively on The Product Way Patreon. How asking What are we really trying to solve?

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In the past few years, we’ve seen the “ great flattening ” of tech: rising expectations of fewer ICs to own larger swaths of the product and manage multiple teams while staying hands-on. Instead of spending valuable time after the meeting reviewing notes and drafting a summary, do the work in the meeting itself.

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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. In my situation, I was limited to lead effectively due to the physical gap.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

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. After reviewing over 50 candidates, 25 phone interviews, and 15 full interviews, I eventually had to choose between a few final contenders.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In our latest Patreon-exclusive article , part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , we explore: Why trust is now a product featurenot just a brand value. This is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collectionavailable exclusively on The Product Way Patreon. Actionable strategies to integrate trust into your product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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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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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.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 5, 2025

In our latest Patreon-exclusive article , part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , we explore: The most common mistakes PMs make in stakeholder alignment. This is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collectionavailable exclusively on The Product Way Patreon. How to use the 5 Whys technique to uncover the real root cause.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. But for sprint review meetings , you may also want to invite (selected) users and customers to collect their feedback. Review and adjust product roadmap; check potential impact on the product strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. 6:52] Did you find a gap in the roadmapping tools that were available before you started Gocious?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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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.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Industries such as high tech, banking, pharmaceuticals and medical products, education and telecommunications, healthcare, and insurance stand to gain immensely. Remember that we are still in the nascent stages of generative AI technology. The risk of falling behind is real.

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