Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Yet, like many managers, my calendar is packed, my unread Slack messages seem endless, and my attention is pulled in countless directions. While this personalized feedback is key to improving the writing and the writer, it is time-consuming, often delaying the team from getting their messages out swiftly.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

The path and the steps to reach the destination is defined through a product roadmap. Hence roadmapping is a crucial exercise which can make or break your product. In my opinion, apart from a bad culture, a bad roadmap can also have a devastating impact on your organizational strategy. Product Roadmap.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Lisa began her career in data science and spent four years as a data scientist at Airship , a marketing and messaging automation company. Lisa explains that “Orchestration is a catch-all term that refers to orchestrating messages across different channels—sometimes referred to as cross-channel orchestration.” Tweet This.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With that as the backdrop, there’s a good chance all of your launch content and messaging follows the theme of the headline in the press release. [company name1] and [company name2] partner to empower manufacturing supply chains with automation. None of these headlines answer the “why do buyers care” question. Here’s the bottom line.

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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. Your vision must be rooted in your particular business and unique capabilities. Where do we see our world, context, customers, and industry going?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. Reinvention requires a product vision : a visual artifact that sets product direction over a longer term time horizon. Product vision is the critical bridge between strategy and execution. An inevitable slide into decline sounds ominous. Here’s how we did it.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. 2 Involve the Right People. Close the meeting.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2024

Yet, it is this very skill that can elevate a product from a mere concept to an inspiring vision. This narrative approach doesn’t just sell products; it sells a vision of what’s possible. Craft a Compelling Vision : Articulate a clear and inspiring vision for your product. Why is Storytelling Crucial?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 6, 2018

To keep the discussion aligned with the product, which might not even exist at that point, I start from the features on the roadmap and regroup them by the area of the problem they address, rather than chronologically. A story that includes all the key messages that you derived from your roadmap. A story that only you can tell.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 18, 2021

A Chief Product Officer of a global company responded to that message and we began discussing the responsibilities of building the right product and building it right. I oversee product planning, product roadmap, vision, and strategy for our products. “Vision without execution is hallucination.”

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

A bad day in the office, a chance LinkedIn message, and before you know it, someone has moved jobs. It’s like a chance bit of customer feedback that we end up devoting a two-year roadmap to. Just as with a product, you should start with a vision. The Roadmap. Once your roadmap is in place, you can think about measurement.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

Retention analysis to validate your product roadmap, gauge how long it takes customers to find value, and set benchmarks for long-term retention goals. You can do this through in-app surveys, one-to-one messages, targeted notes, and tracking real-time shifts in sentiment. Gather and act on customer feedback.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

Finally, capture your insights and describe the product’s current strategy: the people it serves, the value it creates for the users and business, and its key features, for instance, by using my Product Vision Board. Once you have identified the right way forward, capture your decisions in a product roadmap like my GO Product Roadmap.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Vital to delivering successful products at Clickatell , an effective product roadmap can quell the confusion and missteps that often derail well-meaning product delivery organizations. Roadmaps provide the required context to understand how individual initiatives combine to meet strategic objectives.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Roadmaps are a unique tool for creating and maintaining stakeholder alignment, resource planning, and budgeting purposes. Roadmaps can help reign in the chaos that might erupt when there are fewer barriers between coders and consumers. 5 Roadmap Templates for SaaS Businesses. 5 Roadmap Templates for SaaS Businesses.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. They lack vision and lead nowhere. A roadmap example.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

Have a communication policy outlined for your team There are so many enterprise tools available today ranging from email to instant messaging. set simple rules ( e.g. leverage email for non-urgent communications, instant messaging for urgent messages, & meetings for decision-making) and get alignment from your team to follow them.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’re ready to submit your app to the app stores next week, condense the most important elements of pre-launch into a one-week period and move the other items to your post-launch roadmap. App promo videos take your marketing to the next level by bringing your messaging to life. 30 Steps to a Successful Mobile App Launch.

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2022

One of the biggest debates I see internally in product management teams is whether or not they should have a customer-facing roadmap. Should you take a plunge and share your roadmap externally? Best practices when building your roadmap: Define your audience as this will define the level of details. What is a roadmap, anyway?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Founded and headquartered in Landshut, Germany, HiveMQ empowers businesses to transform with the most trusted MQTT platform (a messaging protocol used for connecting sensors and devices, such as in the Internet of Things). HiveMQ should flawlessly pump messages 24/7 in the background without a single user interaction.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

Strategic skills include the ability to develop an effective product strategy , actionable roadmap , and working business model. Leadership skills enable you to effectively guide the development team and lead the stakeholders, create an inspiring vision , and reach sustainable agreements , to name just a few. Test competing offerings.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Even before we finished bucketing the answers by theme, it was clear what the primary challenge on most product managers’ minds is: setting roadmap priorities without real market feedback. Stakeholders clouding the vision not based on evidence. Turning Challenges into Opportunities.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Working on a product without a decent product vision resembles going into the street with eyes closed. This article will show how a product vision should look, how to create it and communicate it to all stakeholders in play. What is Product Vision? Product vision imagines a product direction in the long-term.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 16, 2023

If we go back to post 3 of 10 , you’ll see the ripple effect of a customer-facing portfolio vision in full swing when it’s time to craft your portfolio (and product) positioning! So even when buyers are only looking to buy one of your financial solutions, the lead message is always “greater financial flexibility to…strategic priorities.”

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

Pendo offers a platform of tools that allows product managers to make their products better —whether they are at the beginning of their product roadmap deciding what to build or want to validate the direction for how their product evolves. What I was looking at was a product vision and a roadmap and I was like I want that job.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Combined, these tools amplify the brands reach while reinforcing its core message across digital ecosystems. Emotional Connection Through Content and Messaging: Authentic storytelling and transparent communication help forge a genuine emotional bond. A modern digital financial brand isnt just about colors, logos and fonts.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Describing how things worked at this stage, Claire says, “We were facing the classic roadmaps decided by the founders, ‘fights’ to push users’ voices in the decisions, and some frustrations of projects that we worked on for several weeks but never ended up going live because of ‘bad’ prioritizations or just opinion changes.”

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 1, 2019

Without a sense of product vision, product teams may be more likely to say “yes” to new features that may not add value to users. Back to our messaging app example. Product teams should rely on senior product leadership—not competitors— to guide vision. The Downside of Feature FOMO. Embrace the Sunset.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

With all the best practices out there, improving CX without a customer experience roadmap can get overwhelming. Building a roadmap can help you understand your customer’s point of view, determine the CX tactics you should apply, and prioritize the tasks with greater returns. Plan and execute your CX vision.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2021

Having a dedicated team responsible for NPS ensures the program can adhere to this clear vision and also be held accountable for its success. As with the mechanics, there are plenty of small differences in design of your survey message that can have a huge impact on outcome. Consider your follow-up message.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

The ones who sell the product over and over again, the ones who handle escalations or talk about the roadmap to the customers. As much as your customers, your peers need to know who you are and what your vision is. They’ll be less enthusiastic and convinced in their roadmap talks. Is this on the roadmap? Over communicate.

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ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

Product managers wear many hats, but one of the most uncomfortable ones they’re forced to occasionally don is that of the product vision “Gatekeeper.” The harder part is shooting things down that aren’t bad at face value, but don’t match up with the strategy, vision, and timeline of the overall product.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 30, 2021

Each designer level has influence and responsibility across a number of core areas – scope, ownership, expertise, strategy and vision, autonomy, and leadership – and the specific expectations expand as you go up the design levels. Strategy and vision. Beyond that, staff designers contribute to the group strategy and its product vision.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

They’ll go off with their designers and come up with a grand vision to toss over the wall to the engineers for implementation. Building great products is a collaborative process that works well if everyone agrees on the product vision and strategy. Foremost you want to openly preach the product vision.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 7, 2019

One of the few times a product manager really gets to take center stage and show the fruits of their labor is when they’re presenting the product roadmap. Roadmap presentations are the culmination of weeks, months, or possibly years of work. A compelling roadmap can inspire the company and set a positive tone for the future.

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