Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

His name is Eric. How do you collectively build your marketing persona through a workshop? Preparing for a Persona Workshop. Market research and having a customer proxy are prerequisites for a persona workshop. Company name. The two most frequent exercises I use in my workshops are: Write lines.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. This makes the product roadmap more susceptible to change and it increases the effort to update it.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

His popular blog is also available as a podcast and both are simply named Roman Pichler. Hard skills like market research or roadmapping are important, but they’re not enough. A collaborative workshop with key stakeholders is a great way to kick off a new product development effort and create the initial vision.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

Not tied to a solution : Despite its name, I recommend keeping the product vision free from assumptions about the actual product or solution. The best way to ensure that your vision is inspiring and meaningful for the stakeholders and dev team members is to create it together with the individuals in a collaborative workshop.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. Additionally, the team should have ownership of the plans that contain the goals: the product strategy and the product roadmap , as shown in Figure 2 above. [4] This sounds simple enough.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. This, of course, assumes that you have a validated product strategy and a realistic product roadmap in place. Finally, choose further indicators to assess the health of your product and team.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We just wanted to name and describe them so we can do them on purpose whenever we need to. [7:25] 14:51] How can we impact the culture to make changing the roadmap acceptable? I failed to notice we were not getting to the outcome of repeatable growth even though we were achieving our roadmap. What makes this moment complicated?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 9, 2020

Mind the Product has launched a new training workshop for product leaders on mapping. Namely that each of these roles performs an ever-evolving mix of tasks and that most product people want to understand how to progress. For this reason Mind the Product Training has recently produced a workshop called Product Mapping.

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UX Studio

AUGUST 14, 2017

A UX workshop can help you gather the team and brainstorm to make better decisions. In a UX workshop, we share research results with the participants and let them come up with their own conclusions. Get everybody on the same page with a UX workshop. Persona workshop. A canvas is often a good tool to run a UX workshop.

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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. Take the product roadmap, for example. What do mean?”

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Product Culture

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Roadmaps are a team sport. If you include sales, marketing, finance, and others in your roadmapping process, youll get a better roadmap, and better buy in. For a brainstorming workshop, groups from ten to twenty people can be engaging, generating lots of ideas. Too many people make it hard to make decisions.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

Teresa: One of the things I think I’ve written in the past is if your backlog or your roadmap or your idea log—whatever you’re going to call it—isn’t changing based on what you’re learning in discovery , there’s a disconnect there. My key learnings from the workshop were three things. Stephanie: Exactly.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. Let me walk through the entire workshop in the phases with its results. It is good to have 2 years worth of roadmap where the level of certainty goes down with time.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

So you have done your planning and now want to communicate your roadmap to management or to the team. Here is a template that will help you not only communicate your roadmap better but also build it the right way from the get-go. They named it after the feedback I constantly gave them on their presentations.

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Product Culture

JULY 11, 2024

Workshopping is a technique for a group to create something together. Successful workshops typically consist of a series of structured activities, each with an intended output. Talk: Mastering the Balancing Act Phil Hornby will lead a CPO online discussion on Portfolio Roadmapping. And it’s splendid for gaining alignment.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

For example, institute regular meetings with each stakeholder or have stakeholders name product ambassadors, who then act as “liaison officers” and train them accordingly. Arrange workshops with stakeholders and ambassadors, and ask your Scrum Master and the Developers to join the effort. No, that practice is not anachronistic at all.

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Product Culture

JULY 16, 2024

As we talked last week, workshopping is a technique for a group to create something together. The purpose of a workshop can be generative, like listing problems or coming up with solutions. If needed, a workshop can target all three. If needed, a workshop can target all three. We will treat your information with respect.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 22, 2017

I remember very clearly meeting a Product Manager named Jim Lindstrom on my first day and asked to shadow him. We want to make sure that our training program matches the high quality of our conferences, meetups and workshops to date. We’ll be releasing workshop dates on a rolling basis, so watch this space!

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Mind the Product

MAY 4, 2018

Three examples of this: Workshops. Roughly every third attendee chose to spend the pre-conference day as part of a smaller group in one of the five workshop sessions on Stakeholder Management, Roadmapping, Product Management Foundations, Visual Thinking and User Story Mapping. Photos from the Workshops and the Conference.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The name “product marketing” might be part of the problem. A product marketing roadmap outlines the strategy for fencing the salesforce into your most lucrative markets and supporting them with demand generation bait that hooks the right buyers for the right reasons. Myth 2: It’s a Tactical Function.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I use this tool when consolidating user pain points to create roadmap items. Recently, I was handed a loosely defined roadmap item and I worked with my UX team to come up with an “A to C” workshop. Come up with rhymes to a beat based on a one syllable name What has changed? ?—?(Modification) World’s worst ?—?Things

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. This, of course, assumes that you have a validated product strategy and a realistic product roadmap in place. Finally, choose further indicators to assess the health of your product and team.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 30, 2016

What: One-Day Product Leaders Workshop. Where: San Francisco (workshop and dinner locations TBD). This is a one-day workshop specifically for those leading product management teams : Product VPs, Directors of Product Management, Chief Product Officers and other product-focused execs. When: Friday, March 24, 2017. Sign up here.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 13, 2020

I suggested that I see three kinds of people in online “workshops:” attendee, student, or participant. We have a model of teacher-led teaching, in both in-person and online workshops. I do expect to teach significant content in all of my workshops. In self-paced workshops, I ask people to send me their writing.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

Not tied to a solution : Despite its name, I recommend keeping the product vision free from assumptions about the actual product or solution. The best way to ensure that your vision is inspiring and meaningful for the stakeholders and dev team members is to create it together with the individuals in a collaborative workshop.

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Product Culture

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Great roadmaps are the result of hard decisions, of deciding what you will do and what you will NOT do. Coach Phil Hornby will lead a CPO online discussion on Roadmaps: the Key to Great Product Decisions. More Roadmaps Coach Phil Hornby will lead a talk and a workshop at the Roadmaps Conference in Belgrade, Serbia, Sept.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

What: One-Day Product Leaders Workshop (Roundtable). Possible topics: Managing roadmap interrupts from founders and stakeholder executives. Sharing leader-level experiences helps us recognize patterns across companies team and give names to apparently-unique issues. When: April 16, 2018. Where : Frankfurt, DE .

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2018

But the opposite is true: A “person’s true potential is unknown (and unknowable)” and “it’s impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training”, as Carol Dweck—who coined the term growth mindset—writes in her aptly named book Mindset. Otherwise I will frustrate myself and slow down the learning process.

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Product Culture

AUGUST 21, 2024

Recently I wrote on the importance of workshopping when creating a roadmap. Learn more in Chapter 5 Roadmap of Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders. How you lead the discussion can make all the difference. Have you seen great facilitators? What did they do so well?

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 7, 2021

(Montreal, Canada) - Abigail Ramirez Villarroel, Product Analyst at Bain Public , and Sirena Chan, UX/UI Designer at Bain Public, will be leading a joint workshop with Renaud G. About Zu and Infusion Workshops. Where: Online Workshops (available to Zu Focus 2021 cohorts only). About the Workshop. Session Information.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Anyone in Product Ownership related discipline or those affiliated with Development, need to be aware of the time it takes to go through Research, Ideation, Iteration, before the subsequent steps of the Design Thinking process can occur (this impacts sales strategies, go to market strategies, communication outreach, just to name but a few tasks).

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If Ellen’s name sounds familiar, you may recognize it because she’s both an active member of the CDH Slack community and was featured in a Product in Practice post about involving engineers in assumption testing. Every time we’re doing roadmap planning, we revisit our outcome map and see what’s important. Tweet This.

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Product Culture

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Workshopping is a technique for working with a group of people to create something together. Your Roadmap Sucks Phil Hornby, a coach at Product Culture , will be speaking on Your Roadmap Sucks! It’s used by the most effective product leaders to generate ideas, solicit feedback, and gain alignment with stakeholders.

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Product Culture

MAY 25, 2022

Roadmaps should be about customers and their problems. First Name. Don’t put a feature on the public roadmap until you’re sure it’s right. You can read more in Chapter 1 of my book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched. Events I'll be giving an online workshop for How to Web Institute: Develop Product Roadmaps May 31 and June 2.

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