Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. What happens when you show a senior leader a roadmap?

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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. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Why not, indeed?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. A stakeholder is anyone who has a stake in your product, who is affected by it, or who shows an interest in the offering.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. Why was this prioritized?”

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Working as a product manager can be a busy, unpredictable and octopus-like existence. Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. If you’re a mobile app product manager there’s a whole additional layer of complexity to add to that cake.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

While everyone talks about product-market fit, finding product-customer fit is equally important when it comes to engaging the right customers and driving success. You’ve achieved product customer fit when your product and its functionality help the user get their job done in the easiest and fastest way.

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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!).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Every software team out there uses some sort of planning system or tool to do product roadmaps and sprint plans, and yet many are unhappy with the tools, or frustrated at the lack of getting things done, or getting “pointless” things done, and the list goes on. What do the product roadmapping or planning tools offer us?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Increase Your Referent Power. It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Roadmapping has become a political problem. Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Product strategy defines who we are building for, what to build, and how to build it. What is product strategy?

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Unfortunately, product leadership culture can get a little messy.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 31, 2024

Most people and teams conflate prioritizing and sequencing of work. Shaping a product strategy involves both. Your product won’t spring into existence fully formed and ready to compete like Athena emerging fully armored from the head of Zeus. First you decide which problems are important to solve.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 28, 2022

What is Product Consolidation? Product consolidation refers to combining several products that sell separately but have overlapping functionality or user personas into one product. Note: product consolidation has different definitions in different industries. Why Would You Want to Consolidate Products?

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

ProductPlan is the product management platform that operationalizes product strategy and execution best practices and drives innovation, trust, and accountability. To fully realize this and empower product teams to change the world through their products and the people they serve, ProductPlan is more than roadmapping.

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Want to track the different types of product metrics to get product growth insights ? Product metrics are critical for product growth managers to develop the right product strategies and drive continuous value for customers. Tracking product metrics helps you develop well-informed product strategies.

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ProductPlan

MAY 25, 2021

Product Strategy is Important. One of the most important roles of a product manager (PM) is setting the product strategy. The strategy, by way of a roadmap, is the document that drives team alignment. Well, let’s start by making sure you have a strategy that works first.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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Userpilot

APRIL 19, 2024

TL;DR Market research is vital for making informed business decisions, enabling companies to understand the market, target audience, and competitors, reducing risks, and optimizing marketing communications and product strategies. For more on combining these approaches, refer to Generative vs. Evaluative Research. The outcome?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Product strategy, discovery, and delivery: These are the three general dimensions for which product managers are responsible to optimize in a customer-centric organization. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology).

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Dear Strategy

JUNE 24, 2020

Back in Episode 92 , I talked about the 5 biggest product strategy pitfalls to avoid; one of which was making the assumption that you will be able to implement your strategy for free. It should come as no surprise, then, that I plan on referring to that exact same sentiment here again – but this time with a little added twist….

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

You want the stakeholders’ input, but you need it to be (and need them to think) in terms of problems for you and your team to solve. The product is viewed as a set of features. Keeping you and everyone tuned to the product’s vision and value proposition is key to produce a healthy prioritization environment.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Why Do You Need Roadmapping Software? Roadmapping software has emerged as a core need for the modern product manager. While some software may try to cover the entire gamut of what a product manager might do on any given day, there are those tools that focus solely on roadmapping. Product Introduction.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Why Do You Need Roadmapping Software? Roadmapping software has emerged as a core need for the modern product manager. While some software may try to cover the entire gamut of what a product manager might do on any given day, there are those tools that focus solely on roadmapping. Product Introduction.

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

How can our product managers stay on top of changing customer needs? How can they develop more innovative products and services? Regardless of industry, product managers navigate similar obstacles as they work towards common objectives with their cross-functional teams. Launch and commercialize new products.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

How to get your first Product Management job. How to get your first Product Marketing job. A Product Manager builds the product by identifying customer needs and creating specifications for developers. A Product Marketer’s role is to communicate the value of the product to the market.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. Here’s my list of favorite online posts for product managers. 12 things about product-market fit. How many times I refer this post to new PMs still surprises me.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The new product is going to boost your differentiation in the competitive space. You’ve got customer references with success metrics to make your value story real. Product Launches and the Most Common Mistake Here’s the most common mistake technology companies make, and it’ll take every bit of wind out of your launch sails.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

The term product owner is commonly used to refer to six different product roles in my experience. These are: The original Scrum product owner who owns a product in its entirety and is responsible for maximising the value it creates. But the ability to save the document is a feature, a part of the overall product.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” It also suggests that “the product goal is in the product backlog. The entire Scrum team is “focused on one … product goal” at a time.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” It also suggests that “the product goal is in the product backlog. The entire Scrum team is “focused on one … product goal” at a time.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Market research and customer discovery help validate ideas and make sure the market is ready for the product. Product failure is often attributed to poor UI/UX. Make your UI easy to navigate so that customers can easily learn how to use it and can experience product value quickly. Let’s look at these in more detail.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Before We Dive In SHOULD THE PRODUCT ROADMAP HAVE RELEASE DATES? Ideally, a product roadmap should not have due dates, but when you are working with stakeholders they will ask you for some sort of timelines. The Roadmap is a 30,000-foot view of what is happening, for the audience defined above.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 5, 2021

The best product teams have strong cultures based on discovery and delivery. These teams value and practice experimentation, risk mitigation, compelling product vision/strategy, and collaboration. Many chapters of the book can serve as team-assessment checklists. Key concepts for modern product teams.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Regardless of whether you’re building products for software, hardware, or services, product managers of every stripe are considered the driver of a product’s strategic development and the single source of truth for questions, requests, and feedback related to their products. The role of digital product managers.

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