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10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

1 The Product Roadmap is a Feature-based Plan. Traditional product roadmaps are usually output-focussed plans that map a list of features, like registration, search, and reporting, onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. 2 Roadmap Goals are Features in Disguise.

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

Be clear on the reason why the meeting is needed. What’s the meeting about? Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Carefully consider who should participate in the meeting to achieve the objective you have set. 1 Set an Objective.

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A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Roman Pichler

Overview of the Learning Roadmap. Like a modern product roadmap, a learning roadmap states the specific outcomes or benefits you’d like to achieve to become a more competent product person, and it captures them in form of learning goals. To make these ideas more concrete, let’s look at a sample learning roadmap.

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Ask Teresa: My Leaders Still Want Roadmaps with Timelines—What Should I Do?

Product Talk

Question: How do you respond to requests for date-based roadmaps? To provide a bit more context, one CDH community member was being drawn into theoretical debates about date-based roadmaps. First, I’d like to address some of the shortcomings of date-based roadmaps. At best, creating a date-based roadmap is a waste of time.

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Cracking the Code to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and Extraordinary Communication

Speaker: Donna Shaw - Senior Product Manager & Eric Frierson - Director of Innovation for Public and School Libraries

Master the art of communication for team success, informed leadership, and nurturing strong customer relationships Don't miss out and register now!

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Report templates for less status meetings

Folding Burritos

This post is about making these ideas concrete through a set of guidelines, templates, and JIRA+Excel tips so you can create effective status and progress reports quickly, have less meetings , and get out of the building , which is where you need to be. Templates and tips for less status meetings. Progress / Status.

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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Golden rules for roadmap management. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’. It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’.

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The Product Corner: Maximizing Impact, Reducing Hours, and Accelerating Roadmaps with Data

Speaker: Edie Kirkman - VP, Digital at Focus Brands

Learning Objectives Learn how to gather and utilize data to enhance the user experience and optimize development effectiveness Discover techniques to partner with customers and technology to validate assumptions and uncover new use cases, minimizing the risk of developing products that do not meet user needs Understand how to build leading and lagging (..)

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5 Product Traps - And Better Paths

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Do your roadmaps read like impossible wish lists? It may seem impossible now, but what if we said that with a few changes, you could be meeting deadlines with the ability to predict progress with accuracy, be happy with your progress against the roadmap, and be making time for near-continuous discovery? Well, you’re not alone.