The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

Meanwhile, a robust product strategy lays the roadmap to achieve that vision. Product Roadmap: Develop a detailed product roadmap that outlines the major features, functionalities, and milestones needed to achieve the vision. The roadmap should be adaptable to accommodate changes in the market or user feedback.

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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

JUNE 19, 2023

Are product roadmaps sales tools? Think of a product roadmap as a sales pitch for your product. Thinking of your roadmap this way is helpful when you want to get support from stakeholders and gauge interest from customers — important people who care about your product’s future. Absolutely! Build excitement.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Roadmaps vs backlogs: What’s the real difference and why does everyone keeps using these terms interchangeably when they mean different things? TLDR Understanding the difference between a product roadmap and a backlog is crucial for product managers. Everyone knows the difference between a roadmap and a backlog… right?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

Accelerated by the shift to distributed teams and remote working, these tools have become invaluable resources. Of course, we’d be remiss, not to mention the value of having a purpose-built roadmapping tool in your product stack. Devoting resources to retention is crucial since backfilling them will take even more time and money.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 17, 2017

By Don Stoddard – In the very best companies, roadmaps support key objectives with very specific measures impacting the business. Roadmaps are great at showing a direction, but they often don’t tell the story of “why.” Their teams are aligned on a strategy that is supported by specific objectives and resources.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 15, 2020

Instead product managers said their priorities were for (1) a clearer roadmap/strategy, (2) more development resources and (3) more opportunity for experimentation. Granted, experimentation could be seen as another form of direct customer feedback but it’s still third with strategy/roadmap a standout first. What does this mean?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Photo by Barn Images on Unsplash Best 10+ Resources to awaken your strategic brain Books, articles, and strategy gurus As you climb the career ladder, you realize you need to allocate more time to strategic work and less to your well-known tactical tasks. Books My first go-to type of resource is books.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. There is a lot to do there: team topology, work plans (which people often mistakenly call roadmaps), agile processes, and so on.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 31, 2022

While everyone’s journey is different, I created a roadmap to cover the major stages. I first created the product mastery roadmap in 2013, and I updated it this year to reflect some changes in my experience and knowledge, as I’ve encountered hundreds if not thousands of product professionals since 2013.

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ProductBoard

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A visual product roadmap is a graphical representation of a product’s development journey, illustrating milestones and timelines.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I still believe these remain the very best resources on the topic. I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. And finally, I include a set of resources for managing a career in product management.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 6, 2023

We compiled our best product experience resources from last year, including blogs, ebooks, webinars, and more. Benchmark: Product Roadmapping With Product Experience Data. Using Product Analytics to Drive Product Roadmaps. The Importance of a Data-Driven Product Roadmap. We have more information in our Resource Library.

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ProductPlan

MAY 16, 2023

ProductPlan has consistently seen changes over the past 12 months, and our very own product roadmap has been a part of that journey. We’ve seen a little bit of everything, and the customer-facing roadmap has been critical during these changes. It’s almost ( almost ) as if the 2022 roadmap doesn’t exist. We’ll dig into this soon.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In his book “Start with Why” , Simon Sinek boldly claims that the ‘Why’ behind your actions matters more than the ‘What’ This principle isn’t limited to leadership or personal motivation; it extends to every facet of the business, including product roadmaps. So how to create and present roadmaps effectively?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ? To ensure you’re adding the right features and initiatives to your product roadmap, I’ve outlined several suggestions here. Start with the product vision.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Here are some guiding questions and some resources that can help you work through these points: Who will use it? This is where Roman Pichler’s GO Product Roadmap comes in handy. Both the GO Product Roadmap and the User Story Map will describe the same picture but at two different zoom-levels.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

NAVIGATING THE NATURAL TENSION AMONG STAKEHOLDERS This is the first in a series on product roadmaps. The first post describes why roadmaps matter and who relies upon them. The roadmap is much more than a directive document that tells teams what to do by when. Battleground The product roadmap. These include: Engineering?—?What

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2020

Funding your Product Roadmap How do you ask for funding as you scale your product & team You have a product roadmap (annual / multi-year) in front of you, crafted by you after months of deliberation, discussions, conversations, stakeholder and leadership feedback and reviews. basically the MOSCOW prioritization method.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2022

Accelerated by the shift to distributed teams and remote working, these tools have become invaluable resources. Of course, we’d be remiss, not to mention the value of having a purpose-built roadmapping tool in your product stack. Devoting resources to retention is crucial since backfilling them will take even more time and money.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But for enterprise product teams, the most common area where that opportunity and reality clash is roadmapping. While common processes and templates should be the lifeblood of any effective enterprise operation, 50% of large product teams (those with 50+ members) cite keeping roadmaps and processes consistent as their top growing pain.

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2022

To help you in your first 90 days on the job, we’ve compiled a collection of some of the best product management resources. So what are the best resources to help you get the job done? This article is divided into sections to cover a curated list of different types of resources: Best product management tools.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 4, 2019

We’ve got to keep a pulse on a diverse set of inputs, filtering signals amidst the noise, to build strategic direction and seemingly mid-flight, make calculated tradeoffs for the product roadmap. Sales and marketing teams are one of the most valuable sources of inputs into the roadmap. Put the tools to use.

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Sangita Sarkar , Zynga’s director of product marketing, recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. “Product managers are constantly looking at key metrics and data to inform roadmap and resource allocation decisions.

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Sangita Sarkar , Zynga’s director of product marketing, recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. “Product managers are constantly looking at key metrics and data to inform roadmap and resource allocation decisions.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Part one of this article taught you how to align a roadmap with aspirational business goals. Participants: Product Manager (required), Product Owner (required), Development Manager (required), Business stakeholders (optional) Guiding Questions: What are the highest value projects that will help realize your strategy at the end of the roadmap.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 7, 2022

Through this effort, we created a very exciting and strategic annual roadmap. And what better way to do that than a customer-facing roadmap? Why we built a customer-facing roadmap. In fact, customer interviews play a key role in what gets prioritized and put on our roadmap. How we built our customer-facing roadmap.

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