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.

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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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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As digital and product transformations become more common, more Information Technology (IT) departments view their software assets as products that deserve ongoing investment and attention from a consistent, dedicated team. As a result, you may need a stronger technology background than most product managers.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. These are the exact questions you need to ask when creating your roadmap. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 13, 2022

In Part 1 , I said that customers need a different kind of roadmap than teams do. But, depending on where your product is in the market, your customers might want or need different information. One thing to remember: you might not need a customer-facing roadmap at all if you release often enough. Let's start there.

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Product Warrior

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This is the introduction to my 10-part series to help you execute and continuously improve your product strategy. After explaining to board members we could not acquire the Internet, I quickly learned to execute product strategy fast. We must focus on learning velocity and continuous improvement.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test. Sound familiar?

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UserVoice

AUGUST 16, 2016

While you might “own” the product, your product’s vision should be coming from the top of the house. It should be driving everything in your organization, not just product development. Sales, operations, technology… all of it should be working toward a common vision.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

There are many issues with having clients drive the roadmap. Secondly, waiting for clients to drive the roadmap tends to puts companies in a situation where the backlog becomes too large to practically handle. Is there some niche that your product could fill and get ahead with in the market? Step 3: Creating the Roadmap.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 13, 2022

So can technology roadmap templates help you say no? Fortunately, you can learn from how product managers interact with their customers and stakeholders to say no in a way that does not make you persona non grata. Those conversations always go better with visual aids, and that’s where a technology roadmap comes in handy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. I worked in healthcare technology at the time. However, they are intended to guide and protect- to guide and protect the future of the product and the company. Why share now?

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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.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 21, 2024

Calling busy product professionals! We get it–your days are packed with roadmap review meetings, brainstorming sessions, and making (what sometimes feels like) too many PowerPoint presentations. Despite some significant challenges, 2024 is the year of product It’s official, 2024 is shaping up to be the year of product.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Bain Public has agreed to collaborate with the new Quebec program to propel scaleups on the world stage by providing workshops and peer to peer coaching to develop the management teams of these companies to think slow, act fast, and build roadmaps, brick by tiny brick.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

How might people use the product? What kind of user experience (UX) should the product give rise to? How can the product be built? What architecture patterns and technologies may be used? The world doesn’t stand still: Markets and technologies change, competitors improve their products, and new market entrants may appear.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

At its most basic level, a customer-led product strategy means that your customers are the top priority at all times. This proves that you shouldn’t claim to be customer-centric if your products and services don’t reflect that. Start with the product vision statement, then set out your goals and initiatives.

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Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2022

In the fast-paced world of technology, building a public roadmap can be a competitive advantage for savvy product managers. Building better products start with crafting meaningful roadmaps that align, inform, and inspire. All roadmaps should serve as a powerful communication tool. What is a public roadmap?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 19, 2020

Also crucial is the ability to gain mindshare when trends and new technologies are still in nascent stages. So at some point in every product manager’s job , it’s likely to be a challenge that must be met to be successful. What does a Good Strategy Look Like? Companies don’t start with a product strategy.

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Bain Public

JULY 14, 2021

Bain Public acted as an Exclusive Product Advisor to OnDeck Canada in defining their roadmap. Bain Public helped establish OnDeck’s product culture and prepared their product practice through product management training and by working on their roadmap while providing analysis, data and UX support.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. And if no one realizes it’s wrong or adjusts course quickly, a promising product can become a lost cause. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Tech PMs work actively with product teams on the product vision and strategy. A big part of their job is managing the roadmap and prioritizing technical initiatives in the product backlog. Regular product managers are more customer-centric in their approach. Product vision. Product roadmap.

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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. To ensure that the right technologies are applied, you’ll benefit from using a technology strategy.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

At its most basic level, a customer-led product strategy means that your customers are the top priority at all times. This proves that you shouldn’t claim to be customer-centric if your products and services don’t reflect that. Start with the product vision statement, then set out your goals and initiatives.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 16, 2020

What really drove those companies to the next level was the product’s strength measured in dollar retention. We call it Product-Led Growth. Product-Led Growth is inherently human. All of us are customers – the bar is being raised, and the game is leveling up (and fast) in technology.

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Emerge Insights

JULY 22, 2020

As a business leader, it is critical that you are always seeking to define and develop your digital product’s growth strategy and roadmap. This is not an easy task; it requires a detailed assessment of the challenges your product must overcome to serve the needs of users.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

In a recent product management insights report , as many as 57% of PMs said they don’t spend enough or any time road mapping. They also said they wished they had a clearer product roadmap strategy. In addition, product managers said that direct customer feedback and insights were the best sources of their new ideas.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program. ” These are arguably the smartest people in the world when it comes to AI, and they are saying that historically high-level skills like engineering and business (and game) strategy are going to be solved by AI. That the programming language is human.

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Actuation Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Moving Your Product Strategy Forward. When you begin developing your product roadmap, you start to envision how your product strategy will actually be accomplished. These set of activities will typically cover multiple product development cycles and define high-level deliverables.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

As the Head of Product at ProductPlan, I spend a lot of time talking to product teams and learning about their experiences throughout the product development process. Product teams are responsible for creating a strategy and explaining the “why” behind the product.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Treat the Platform as a Product. Consequently, a platform should have its own product strategy and roadmap , KPIs , product backlog , and well-designed software architecture that leverages the right technologies. After all, a platform exists to help teams build better products faster and cheaper.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 17, 2017

Roadmapping isn’t an exercise reserved solely for product teams—or rather, it shouldn’t be. Roadmaps are communication tools and are perfect vehicles for teams of all kinds to share their priorities and goals with the rest of the organization. The product roadmap. Give our product roadmap template a whirl.

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Many product managers come in fully intending to transform the business, but too often they struggle to properly engage with other teams and to evangelize product management as a function, which in turn causes innovation to come to a standstill. Lifting & shifting: the common pitfall of product teams. About Tanya Cordrey.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Product managers play an important role in steering leadership to evolve the product strategy and corresponding tactics. Companies that are neglecting to take large roadmap bets to competitively capture markets, industries, and geographies will find that this recession will make gaps insurmountable.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. This strategic roadmap basically keeps high-level business outcomes.

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Dear Strategy

JULY 23, 2019

On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale , founder of Strategy Generation Company and author of Creative Strategy Generation , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “How do I align my product strategy and product roadmap with our technology roadmap, in the face of a strong engineering organization?”.

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