Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This year has been a powerful change agent in many positive ways, but we all know what never-ending change can lead to: BURNOUT. And your product roadmap is likely bearing the load. Do you think your product roadmap is running on fumes from too much change, or decaying from not enough focus? Consumers are overwhelmed.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Before you order the roadmap items, double-check that you have a validated product strategy in place. If you haven’t nailed the answers, then do not continue the roadmapping effort. Otherwise, your roadmap may be built on false assumptions. To prioritise the product roadmap, consider in which life cycle stage your product is.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 6, 2025

While most product managers work their way up to leadership positions, she chose to start fresh in a role that would let her work directly on product development. This position was a departure from hands-on product work to leading through others and shaping organizational direction.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 10, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Traditional vs Outcome-based Roadmaps Before I share the four steps, let me briefly describe the main differences between a traditional, feature- and an outcome-based product roadmap. A traditional roadmap is essentially a list of features, which are mapped onto a timeline.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

So, your boss’s boss walks into your office and changes your roadmap…. The only real solution was to rebuild everything from scratch; requiring phasing out the old platform and creating a new one and managing multiple products and roadmaps. No, this is not a bad joke. As a product manager you prep, plan and execute.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

The business goals, finally, state the positive impact the product should achieve for the business. The GO Product Roadmap is the template I have developed to capture an outcome-based roadmap. The product section describes what kind of product it is and what sets it apart from alternatives.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

5] What about Product Roadmap Generation? You might have noticed that I didnt list the creation of product roadmaps as an AI benefit, even though several tools offer it. There are two reasons for this: First, the AI-generated roadmaps I came across during my research were feature-based, which is a roadmapping approach I dont recommend.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Market Analysis Before and With AI Customers are clamoring for a number of improvements to your product and youre on a mission to get them funded and on the roadmap. AI has put you in the best position to do that in a fraction of the time it would take you otherwise. AI has no idea which sales deals are hinging on your roadmap.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Here’s a simple example of portfolio positioning and how it makes your product positioning more strategic. 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! It sounds strategic.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

How does it differ from a product roadmap and how do the two plans relate? At the heart of the model in figure 1 are four artefacts: the product vision, the product strategy, the product roadmap, and the product backlog. With a validated strategy in place, you are in a great position to build an actionable product roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The user and business goals help select the right product goals, which I capture on the product roadmap. Third, the second OKRs are the equivalent of the first entry on a goal-oriented product roadmap. If you want to work with a roadmap that looks further ahead, you will have to add additional OKRs to the ones in figure 3.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

To keep track of what has been validated for delivery and development, a roadmap is your best tool. Product managers are often tasked with improving an existing roadmap — but sometimes you will need to create one from scratch. As you make changes to your roadmap, you will need to get feedback from stakeholders for your product.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2020

I won’t spend too long here describing thematic roadmaps – Chris Butler and Jared Spool have done a great job of explaining Bruce McCarthy’s idea – but I think it’s worth talking about why it worked with my stakeholders. I also re-framed the alignment meetings as “Roadmap” meetings, not “Prioritisation” meetings.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. 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.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. 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.

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Product Culture

JANUARY 8, 2025

Successful product leaders use workshopping to develop strategy, roadmaps, and anything else where input and feedback are valuable. Assume positive intent - We all want to solve this problem, even if we approach it differently. More sample ground rules in Chapter 5, Roadmaps, from Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders.

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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Product managers push for roadmaps. The Power of Influence Over Authority Another myth Guy breaks down is the idea that product managers need positional power to lead effectively. Engineers push back with technical constraints. Somewhere in the middle, customer needs get lost in translation. Guy doesnt sugarcoat this dynamic.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 30, 2018

Because market awareness drives roadmaps that have the highest likelihood of “changing the game”. You’ll learn things that change your roadmaps for the better. You’ll learn things that confirm your roadmap is right. You’ll learn things that have no impact on your roadmap.

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Product Management University

MARCH 5, 2025

Product Management Every feature, every roadmap decision, every investmenttied directly to user jobs that, when improved, create measurable benefits for the customer. Listen, relate, and position your products as the key to meeting their goals by solving their problems. No fluff, no filler, just impact. Easy, right?

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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

Meanwhile, a robust product strategy lays the roadmap to achieve that vision. Here’s an example template for crafting an effective vision statement: “To [solve a problem] for [target users] by providing [unique value proposition] , leading to [positive impact or transformation] within [timeframe].”

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It’s the first step to bring about positive change. You are not in a position to decline feature requests. As you are not empowered to determine the product features, you are not in a position to manage the product and significantly impact the value it creates. I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Once you find these fans, create easy ways for them to engage with your brand and share their positive experience. The best way to give your customers a positive experience? Product roadmap. The insights you gather should inform your product roadmap and rally your development team around a single point: the customer.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Like that soccer team, products can fall apart when the team doesn’t work together toward a common goal following a roadmap. Soccer is a perfect parallel for product management and roadmap development. While they might seem worlds apart, they share common core principles for success — especially when it comes to roadmap development.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change. If that’s not the case, then it will be difficult to encourage the individuals to agree to more specific goals and to follow a product strategy and a product roadmap that are based on the vision.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

As the person in charge of the product, you lack transactional power : You cannot tell the stakeholders what to do, you cannot assign tasks to the individuals, and you are typically not in a position to offer a bonus, pay raise, or other incentives. Ask the Scrum Master to help you build a stakeholder community.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Connect Decisions to Customer Needs: Show how your roadmap addresses customer pain points to build trust. Inspire Confidence with a Clear Vision A compelling product vision unites teams and stakeholders, positioning you as a leader with purpose and direction.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 21, 2019

A customer-centric approach focuses on providing a positive customer experience to drive profit and gain competitive advantage. A product manager manages the product roadmap/product lifecycle. If your product modification starts to take more market share, start thinking about adding it to the product roadmap as a standard offering.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2021

Make your roadmap visible to everyone. The first step to communicating your process is making sure your project roadmap is transparent and visible to everyone. Your roadmap is a hugely important material that should be accessible to everyone. Practice the art of the “positive no”. Enter the “positive no.”

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

The product vision describes the ultimate purpose of a product, the positive change it will bring about. Contrast this with the product strategy and the product roadmap. The former will change at least once per life cycle stage, and the roadmap is likely to change several times per year. Listen to this article: [link].

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2021

We have seen many organizations in the last few years move the product group and product roles to more prominent positions, putting clearer focus on creating great products for customers. 20:16] What are your suggestions for structuring and using roadmaps? We’re buying the roadmap. We’re buying the roadmap.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Once companies collect that VoC data, they can use those insights to inform their mobile strategy, loyalty programs, marketing campaigns, product roadmap, and more. They can help with customer acquisition by sharing positive reviews and recruiting more people into your mobile experience. What do your customers not like?

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