The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2022

If you have read my article “There is no business like flow business” you know I am all up for a rewrite challenge, so with no further ado I am proud (and at the same time worried it will not make any sense nor resonate with you all) to present the Product Management Alphabet Aerobics. Alphabet Aerobics Klaas Hermans for Sharpwitted.ninja.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. So as he leaned across the table and looked me in the eyes, he demanded, “Explain why I need a product roadmap.” Why not, indeed?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 20, 2019

Although product managers may not regularly attend management meetings, they will frequently have opportunities to demonstrate features, share customer learnings, and present roadmaps to the higher ups in the company. It’s all about tailoring your presentation for the folks in the room. Know your audience. Current investors.

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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. How roadmaps kill outcomes A classic roadmap is a list of features with a timeline.

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Product Culture

JANUARY 31, 2024

So you have created the most beautiful roadmap ever. Only thing is: you have to do a presentation about it. Cover recent progress: Share recent wins and positive customer testimonials. See Chapter 9 of my book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched. It will drive your company into the stratosphere. Remember to breathe.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots of experience both presenting executive-facing roadmaps and receiving those presentations. I understand how much thought (and possibly anxiety) goes into these roadmap presentations. Another key mistake: over optimism.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

Does the data show positive, flat, or negative trends? Development insights and product roadmap : Are there any significant learning from the product discovery and delivery work? Has the product roadmap changed? Let’s take a look at them. What conclusions can you draw from the analysis?

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

They can help outline a roadmap for your career and, more importantly, hold you accountable, ensuring you stay on track. Later, I had the opportunity to sit with the company’s leadership and present my portfolio. I took in one question at a time while I was presenting. Upon arrival, I was given a tour of the office.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But for enterprise product teams, the most common area where that opportunity and reality clash is roadmapping. While common processes and templates should be the lifeblood of any effective enterprise operation, 50% of large product teams (those with 50+ members) cite keeping roadmaps and processes consistent as their top growing pain.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap.

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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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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Leadership is present when an individual guides a group of people to achieve a desired outcome. As the individual is a peer and not the boss, they cannot tell people what to do and they are usually not in a position to offer rewards like a promotion. 2 ] It does not derive from a position on the org chart. Know when to delegate.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2019

Past, Present and Future. Present: What is the current sprint or work we should be doing today? Do we need to tweak the roadmap? Future, Present and Past: Future is our backlogs, both development and opportunity backlog (I’m a big fan of Jeff Patton’s dual track ). I often like to frame product development as 3 buckets?—?Past,

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. Strategy —  Is there a clear strategy behind the product and the roadmap?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 18, 2021

But if there’s one part of product management that needs IMPACT more than anywhere else, it’s roadmapping. Roadmaps set the tone for the coming months and years. No one wants a plan for the future that isn’t exciting, inspiring, and positioning the product for growth and success. Laying the groundwork for a roadmap with IMPACT.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 7, 2020

Roadmapping is a crucial part of every product manager’s role, but it’s safe to say a lot of PMs don’t particularly enjoy it. Luckily, there are some excellent product roadmap tools out there to help make it more bearable. In this article, we’re going to look at the most popular product roadmap tools. What will the roadmap show?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 17, 2020

Much has been written over the last few years on the idea of the featureless roadmap , which challenges product teams to present their plans grounded more in strategic vision – or by themes – rather than a laundry list of specific features. How to Decide on Roadmap Themes that Produce Meaningful Outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Whether you believe in momentum or not, it is undeniable that a positive period of performance and accomplishments is easier to keep going than starting from scratch. Product managers, in particular, benefit from success because the rest of the product team tends to take on the product manager’s perspective, confidence, and positivity.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

One of the best ways to ensure excellent communication with stakeholders is through leveraging a roadmapping tool. 6 Ways a Roadmap Supports Change Management Process. A roadmap acts as a single source of truth. The product roadmap serves as the system of record for the overall project. Roadmaps create transparency.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Are your roadmapping habits holding you back? As we get more comfortable, we keep doing it to get the same positive outcome. Clear’s advice proves useful for product managers to implement his philosophy into their own atomic roadmapping habits. External factors affecting our atomic roadmapping habits.

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Product Management University

MAY 20, 2024

In its simplest form, strategic account planning is your ability to help customers define success in measurable terms, then lay out a roadmap that leads them to their definition of success. The more realistic approach is to make sure you have senior managers present. These are typically VP and director level roles.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2020

Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about why we’re so hostile to including features on product roadmaps. But we do believe there is a far more effective way to arrange a roadmap than as a list of features.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

3 Ingredients to Building Out Your Product Vision Unfortunately, all of the roadmap planning in the world and the most thought out mitigation strategies are not going to prevent stakeholder roadmap dismantling, scope changes and risk events from occurring.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 6, 2024

Heather’s presentation could have been about Craiglist’s features, the ones we are lacking, the ones we have and they don’t, but that’s not what she talked about. As the presentation continued, Heather didn’t talk about Facebook’s features either. Thinking about it allows you to explain how you are positioned in the category.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

We’d spent weeks perfecting the roadmap presentation for our annual customer conference. It felt like people had overlooked all the greatness of our roadmap and were focused on the (relatively few) changes we’d made along the way. For many product people, this is the nightmare scenario of sharing their product roadmap.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 4, 2017

When your product gains traction in a market and grows organically – thanks to positive referrals from your users – you’ll need to get into Growth mode, meaning that you sustain and amplify demand for your product. Learning and growing are antagonistic by nature, which is why many companies face the roadmap dilemma.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

The spectrum of roles in product management is broad, ranging from highly specialised to more generalist positions. But it is something, and that area will 100% successfully influence your Roadmap” Andre Albuquerque post in Linkedin Understanding the nuances of this strategic face-off is crucial for product teams.

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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. So, here are five mistakes you want to avoid. Not reading the room.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Understand positive sentiment drivers and boost customer loyalty. Personalize interactions to drive positive customer sentiment. This sentiment can be positive, negative, or neutral and is influenced by various factors, including product quality , customer service, pricing, and brand reputation. Customer sentiment analysis.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 8, 2022

Customer engagement can look like a complaint on social media or a negative app rating just as much as it can look like a customer using loyalty points or leaving a positive app review. Act: Once you find answers to your questions, start building features into your product roadmap that you know will drive more customer engagement.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

While I really appreciate this entrepreneurial aspect of our work, it can bring up tension, stress, and frustration when we are trying to progress our products towards agreed goals but are in danger of missing them, be it a sprint goal , product goal on the roadmap , or a strategic user or business goal. What does it feel like?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

While I really appreciate this entrepreneurial aspect of our work, it can bring up tension, stress, and frustration when we are trying to progress our products towards agreed goals but are in danger of missing them, be it a sprint goal , product goal on the roadmap , or a strategic user or business goal. What does it feel like?

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bpma ProductHub

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Is your roadmap stuck chasing feature parity? How do you position your product & feature set in a way that allows you to uniquely meet your customer’s needs and stay ahead of the competition? The concepts presented in CEB’s book “The Challenger Customer” are gaining a lot of traction in the marketing world.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

As product managers, we may sometimes feel as though communicating our roadmap strategies and recommendations to those who sit outside of the immediate team – sales, marketing, and other executive stakeholders – resembles Catmull’s first characterization of the unhealthy culture.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 16, 2020

In this BoS Talk April shows you how important positioning is to your product and how you can be doing yourself a great injustice just by positioning incorrectly. April Dunford (Founder/CEO, Ambient Strategy) – Positioning for Growth: How To Make Complex Products Obviously Awesome from Business of Software Conference.

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