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3 tips to ensure a flexible product roadmap

Mind the Product

In product management, a roadmap is the source of truth, the shared prioritisation tool of a product team. Here are 3 tips that will help you build a roadmap that's set up to conquer the unknown. Read more » The post 3 tips to ensure a flexible product roadmap appeared first on Mind the Product.

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

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. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Six Remote Mobile Product Manager Tips

Alchemer Mobile

For product managers , this has posed some unique challenges. Now, this one is probably on every list of “work from home tips” on the internet, but it’s important. In order to be an effective teammate and product manager, you need to be empathetic, flexible, and understanding to others in your company.

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Revive Your Product Roadmap

Alchemer Mobile

2020 completely changed the way we approach digital product planning (pretty crazy since nothing else really changed in 2020, right?). Digital transformation is back to most companies’ top investment channels, remote product management is the future of work, and there is more marketplace need for product managers than ever before—hooray?

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How to Sell Your Roadmap to Your Leadership Team

Speaker: Brett Truka, CEO, Devetry

A product roadmap needs to both capture your product’s strategy and outline your execution plan. Because these documents are such an essential component of your job as product manager, you also need to strategize your roadmap presentation. How to reduce the risk associated with your product roadmap.

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How to Choose the Right Roadmap Tool: Tips from Stack Overflow’s CPO

Dragonboat

Ryan Polk, a seasoned Chief Product Officer (CPO) with nearly three decades of experience in engineering and product management, recently shared his insights during a CPO Series webinar focused on choosing the right roadmap tool.

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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Golden rules for roadmap management. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’. Our product was evolving rapidly and haphazardly.

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How to Use Visual Product Roadmaps for Better Planning and Results

Product managers (PMs) must gather and analyze product data, create product roadmaps for multiple stakeholders, identify roadblocks, and track a long list of milestones—all while staying on a tight schedule. In this eBook you'll discover: The key difference between product plans and product roadmaps.

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How Leveraging Data Creates Efficient Product Roadmaps

Speaker: Hannah Chaplin - Product Marketing Principal & Steve Cheshire - Product Manager

Without product usage data and user feedback guiding your product roadmap, product managers and engineers end up wasting money, time, and effort building what they think stakeholders want, rather than what they know they need. Product roadmaps must focus on the "now" and allow feedback to inform the "later."

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When Life Gives You Lemons Make PM Lemonade: Surviving Product Management During Crisis

Speaker: Vivek Bedi, Keynote Speaker, Author & Entrepreneur

In fact, the entire way product managers work has completely changed. The work/life balance of PMs is being tested; managing a product team and various roadmaps virtually adds to the list of current challenges. Meanwhile many professionals are exploring if pivoting into product management is a career path for them.

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Defining the product vision is a high-stakes exercise, which makes it all the more important to avoid some common pitfalls product managers encounter: confusing the company’s vision with their product vision, defining a vision that’s too abstract to be useful in strategic planning, or combining the “what” and the “how” in the product vision.

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Leading Under Uncertainty

Speaker: Greg Coticchia, CEO & Founder of ENTRA

In this session, we will discuss important tips for you as a Product Manager dealing with uncertainty. Product management is a team sport and trust amongst the team is even more essential. Where to focus your product and product roadmap in uncertain times.