Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

In our latest Productside webinar, Becoming an Effective Product Management Leader , Principal Consultants Roger Snyder and Kenny Kranseler delivered a no-nonsense roadmap for new leaders who want to nail their first 90 days (and beyond) and get the tools on how to become a product management leadereffectively. Do I push back?

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The Product Guy

MAY 16, 2025

Prioritization is where product leadership gets tested. This new Patreon-exclusive article in the Roadmap to Mastery series explores how to lead prioritization with structure, confidence, and buy-in. Balancing technical constraints, stakeholder agendas, and long-term goals is hard.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

This can be done for example by involving the developers and product owners in the user research, the wireframes assessment and the usability testing sessions. 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. Resource management.

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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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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

But instead of telling a clear, compelling story, they send out a spec or share a roadmap deckand hope it gets read. Share it with leadership. Test if the story makes sense. PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer. And if it isnt understood, it wont get built.

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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. A really good roadmap is a story about the future – and why it’s going to be awesome for everyone involved.

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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Product managers push for roadmaps. Thats why we test. Explore our Optimal Product Management course to build the leadership skills, communication habits, and strategic mindset that modern PMs need to lead across functions. Engineers push back with technical constraints. Guy doesnt sugarcoat this dynamic.

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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. Walmart has tried a lot of things and been willing to test them and learn in the market what works. Click here to download the Action Guide.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Grow Your Leadership Skills. A great way to do this is to mentor and coach people.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

Thats where the roadmap reveals itself. Watch Pedros episode: [link] Joni Hoadley : #HowIPM Ideate in Less than a Day Joni Hoadley, Product Manager Coach & Consultant, shares a 5-step workshop framework to go from sticky-note chaos to aligned priorities and test-ready ideasin a single afternoon. Dont just ask.

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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. The skills typically include architecture, programming, testing, and if the product is end-user facing, UX design capabilities. Additionally, it is based on my leadership work, especially my book How to Lead in Product Management. [2]

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas. Testing business ideas. Testing Business Ideas, by David Bland and Alex Osterwalder: US , UK , DE.

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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. 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 ).

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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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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. The Master Class also works well as a solution under the leadership branch. My personal roadmap looks like this: Now. Opportunity. “I

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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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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?” This was not a question as much as a test of my ability to think critically. “Of Roadmaps are not always needed. he asked. Of course.”,

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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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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. The post Carbon Neutral Roadmaps – Chris Adams on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Now the Product Director at Symec, Lily also runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers. Use a product vision ; a product strategy with user needs and business goals; and a product roadmap with product goals (aka.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’ First, they need to ensure that testing the tool is easy and can be used in a well-controlled environment. Lisa soon realized that her team was turning to her for guidance on the orchestration roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Third, they can be tested. To prevent your product backlog from becoming a wish list, follow these two tips: First, select a product goal and align your product with a strategic plan like a product roadmap (as I discuss below). See my article Boost Your Product Leadership Power for advice on increasing your authority.).

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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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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

That leads to large and unchangeable roadmaps and a lot of emphasis on predictability. Test architecture, to shepherd the testing tactics. 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'm sure I've missed something.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

This helps the individuals embrace an agile mindset, take advantage of new techniques and tools—think of hypotheses-driven strategy validation, goal-oriented product roadmaps, and user stories—and effectively collaborate with the agile development teams. Strategy and leadership skills are nice-to-have but not mandatory.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” I’m sure this was not a question as much as a test of my ability to think critically. “Of Then I thought further; maybe complete scenarios exist where roadmaps aren’t needed. he asked. Of course.”, I answered. Are you sure?

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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. Why do product managers need them?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

As these skills form a large set, I like to divide them into three sub groups: strategic, tactical, and leadership capabilities, as the picture below shows. Strategic skills include the ability to develop an effective product strategy , actionable roadmap , and working business model. Test competing offerings.

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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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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Historically, we’ve asked product teams to deliver a fixed roadmap typically defined by leadership. It’s easy to focus on the new skills we need— interviewing , prototyping , testing assumptions , and so forth—but today I want to talk about the mindsets we need to become a successful outcome-driven product team.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I find that a product walkthrough is often needed when you are trying to make the case to leadership to green-light a new venture based on the strength of your vision for it. Design: Product Roadmap. Probably the most visible aspect of the product manager role is driving the product roadmap.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle. Guest Post by: Inis Hormann (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz]. More About The Product Mentor.

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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.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. I find it useful to have UX design, architecture, programming, and testing skills present to make the right decision.

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

According to Steve, “The problems that come with that are capturing, organizing, and prioritizing feedback at scale, so that without too much time investment product managers can distill raw data into actionable insights which inform discovery and ultimately drive roadmap decisions.”. Adding New Tools and Advice for Other Teams.

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

Continuous integration reduces the risk of large code conflicts that used to take days or sometimes weeks of testing to resolve. A group of people (sometimes senior leadership, sometimes a budget oversight committee, sometimes a product team) prioritizes and funds those ideas, initiatives, or projects. Miscommunication led to delays.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2020

When we think of corporate leadership, we instantly picture CEOs and executive teams, but the role played by boards is often glossed over and underappreciated. Leadership during the COVID crisis. Balancing executive management and boardroom leadership. We all started in the spring and summer doing a lot of scenario planning.

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