BrainMates

JULY 9, 2025

Turning Strategy Into Outcomes: Influencing Stakeholders To Achieve Alignment By Erica Wass At a Glance This blog outlines how successful product strategy depends on aligning cross-functional stakeholders, not just building a strong plan. In product management, strategy alone isn’t enough.

Data Visualization

Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

This will involve close collaboration with Stripe’s and our financial partners product and engineering organizations to prioritize valuable investments over a multi-quarter roadmap, considering distribution potential, performance, costs, and risks. Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.

Research Software

UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

It bridges the gap between observation and action, transforming scattered (and messy) information into clear, prioritised insights that can drive product strategy. While the output often benefits from human review, if AI could handle at least the 50–60% of repetitive work , it presents a time-saving scenario for teams.

Data Visualization

Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

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Analytic Tools

Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Traditionally, strategy and execution are often viewed as separate, sequential pieces of work that are carried out by different people. For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. I call these outcomes product goals.

Product Strategy

Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

2] Figure 1: The Power-Interest Grid The grid divides stakeholders into four groups: crowd, subjects, context setters, and players depending on how interested they are in your product and how much power they have. Smaller strategy updates and product roadmapping decisions, however, are not as critical.

Roadmap

Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. Bob is the author of the book Creative Strategy Generation. I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company. Our guest is Bob Caporale.

Product Strategy

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.

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile.

Technical Review

The Product Coalition

MAY 3, 2021

Roadmaps don’t need to be complex, nor should you need a PhD to create one. Photo by Matt Duncan on Unsplash Ahh the dreaded word roadmap… The mere mention of a roadmap can divide the room, and send Product Managers into a world of panic. Let’s face it, roadmaps have a bad reputation.

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

But this taught me an important lesson: There is no point in worrying about the product details if a sound product strategy is missing. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. 1] While I hope that this makes sense to you, I find that in practice, the different strategies are sometimes confused.

Research Software

Mind the Product

MAY 22, 2017

Can’t get your boss to part ways with a time-based feature roadmap? I wonder what it is about feature roadmaps that is comforting to the C-suite. For bosses, I think there’s a perceived risk in moving from a safe and predictable feature roadmap to an experiment-based lean product roadmap. And yet, there they are.

Roadmap

The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

It forced me to question a belief, as a product leader, I treated as an absolute — that products always require roadmaps. My mentor and I started in our usual spot, talking about startups and new products in the healthcare industry. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” An hour flew by.

Roadmap

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 ).

Reporting Tools

Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

Product Manager

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.

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Strategy and Change Strategy means different things to different people, so let me briefly share my definition. A product strategy describes the approach chosen to make a product successful. Eisenhower, we could say, “Strategy is worthless.

Customer Experience

Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

For an introduction on how to use the Wardley Mapping approach to illustrate the landscape and initiate change, check out their presentation. Use the #podcast channel in the Mind the Product Slack community. The post Carbon Neutral Roadmaps – Chris Adams on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

Product Research

Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Initially, the project was presented to me as something to “increase the number of people who apply to, and join the university” While these numbers may be useful to measure, they’re also vanity metrics, much like website visitors for an e-commerce website. Download the Product Funnel template. Want to give it a try?

Data Visualization

Ask Benny

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

How to effectively build and manage your roadmap and your stakeholders’ expectations. The Roadmap Challenge I recently participated in a meetup of very experienced product management leaders arranged by ProductX. We discussed roadmaps and the challenges surrounding them. Modify the roadmap based on their input if needed.

Roadmap

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?

Roadmap

The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2023

A Tale of Two Roadmaps — And Why You Can’t Succeed With Only One “There is no one-size-fits-all product roadmap. A roadmap can and should look different depending on the situation. Todd Lombardo Once upon a time, in a city like yours, two versions of a roadmap emerged. Both roadmaps, though different, are crucial.

Development Team Review

Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

As it’s notoriously difficult to correctly forecast how much time a bigger piece of discovery work will require, I recommend timeboxing the product discovery work. To do so, consider the amount of innovation and risk present and allocate an appropriate timebox.

Product Research

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the picture above, the life cycle extension is shown by the arrow that reverses the ageing process of the product and takes it back into the growth stage. If you are in doubt if you should use Scrum or not, consider how much uncertainty is present in your product. Do you know how to develop, market, and sell the product?

User Testing

Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

Insights on product strategy and customer research for product managers. Today we are looking at product management work through the eyes of a CEO, exploring several topics together. The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, the first product feedback and research tool for software companies.

Research Software

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

Our principles help us make decisions about strategy, roadmaps, design, and more. For example, we might really admire your visual design work, but we’ll also want to see how you influence product strategy, define the problem, understand the system, collaborate with others, and more. Intimidated about creating a portfolio?

Research Software

Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I recently tweeted about timeline roadmaps saying they had to go. I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. When I saw the results I thought it was worth saying on Twitter what I’ve said before: the timeline roadmap simply has to go (said Twitter thread caught fire!).

Roadmap

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes.

Product Research

Gocious Blog

MAY 23, 2023

You've got a big job—keeping products on track, making presentations, updating data, maintaining company goals and product strategies, and so on. The best product roadmaps help minimize errors and streamline product development. It can quickly become difficult to stay organized.

Roadmap

ProductPlan

JUNE 29, 2023

Now, we want to help you capture your product strategy. Today, we are launching the Open Beta for a new strategy space in ProductPlan. Many of our customers are candid about their struggles to connect initiatives planned in their roadmaps to the broader goals they support. They visualize what you’re building next.

Product Strategy

Product Management University

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Before we bring the portfolio roadmap into the picture, let’s set the stage with product roadmaps. For most people, the term roadmap conjures up a visual presentation of product features and delivery dates published by product management.

Roadmap

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

What is a data product roadmap? What roadmap metrics should you be tracking? We also share software products you can use to create a foolproof product roadmap and drive product-led growth. The difference between a data product roadmap and the traditional approach is the former relies heavily on data.

Data Visualization

ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Perhaps the team consists of a few product managers. These professionals can easily communicate , stay aligned, and present a cohesive product strategy to the team. Many teams fail to understand the importance of a roadmap. They fail to understand how it can help to standardize roadmaps to align your team.

Roadmap

Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I’ve had some requests from listeners to explore product roadmaps, so I had a discussion with Jim Semick. He is co-founder of ProductPlan , which creates roadmap software for product teams. The best practices for constructing product roadmaps. Practices and Ideas for Product Managers and Innovators.

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Similarly, a team dealing with significant technical challenges may struggle to get sprint planning right due to the uncertainty present. To give helpful feedback and maximise the chances that your message is heard, you might say: “It’s great that you managed to deliver some of the product backlog items. Thank you for that.

Weak Development Team

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.

Onboarding KPIs

The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager. A product leader not only has to manage products but also to guide and direct the overall product strategy and team, and ensure that products are delivered to market. Facilitating better team collaboration.

Leadership