article thumbnail

Succeeding with Product Portfolio Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What is a Portfolio Roadmap and Do You Need One? 1] But wouldnt it make sense to harmonise not only the product strategies but also align the product roadmaps? This is where product portfolio roadmaps come in. [2] How Can You Capture a Portfolio Roadmap?

article thumbnail

How to Lead with a Strategy-Based Roadmap

The Product Guy

If your roadmap is just a list of features and delivery dates, you’re missing the point. In this episode of How I PM, Joni Hoadley, product management coach and consultant, shares how to turn your roadmap into a strategic leadership tool. Your roadmap should focus on outcomes and long-term thinking.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Product Roadmapping Once product positioning is established, product managers move into the more action-oriented activity of roadmapping. This planning phase requires careful consideration of multiple contextual factors that significantly impact how roadmaps should be developed and managed.

article thumbnail

Why most product roadmaps fail: Phil Hornby (Product Leadership Coach) – ProductTank Porto

Mind the Product

Product Leadership coach Phil Hornby delivered a compelling talk at ProductTank Porto, provocatively titled “Your Roadmap Sucks.” ” Phil challenged conventional product practices by dissecting the common pitfalls in product roadmaps. Watch the video in full, or read on for a quick recap.

article thumbnail

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. He'll share insights into what he, as an executive, looks for in a roadmap and presentation.

article thumbnail

Building Better Product Roadmaps: First Principles You Can’t Ignore

The Product Coalition

How first principles can help you design product roadmaps from the ground up. Product roadmaps are no exception. Creating or even updating a product roadmap can feel like being handed a blank sheet of paper and told you have 60 minutes to write a ten-page college essay on a topic you didn’t study for….

article thumbnail

Building High-Impact Teams and Data-Driven Decisions in Product Management with Abner Rosales 

Productside

Abner shares real-world examples of navigating failures, spotting unvalidated solutions, and prioritizing effectively on roadmaps to stay ahead of the curve. Overcoming Product Challenges and Failures Every product journey has its pitfalls. Patience and Long-Term Career Planning Why is patience the ultimate career hack?

article thumbnail

Get S.M.A.R.T. with your Roadmap

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Technical Project Manager, iFixIt

When adding projects to a roadmap, the question of outsourcing or doing work “in house” is always a consideration. Timeline of the project in the roadmap. It's time to get SMART about what you do in-house! Measurement rules to monitor cost and success with enough time to adjust. Alignment with your purpose and vision.

article thumbnail

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."

article thumbnail

How to Evaluate and Implement Customer Feedback Into Your Product Roadmap

Speaker: Rebecca Notté, Product Operations Manager and Hannah Chaplin, Director of Product Marketing at Pendo

In this interactive session, Hannah and Rebecca will share their experience of building product roadmaps that align with company goals while also ensuring that customers are truly heard. You will come away having learned: A framework to follow which will help you evaluate and improve your Product Roadmap.

article thumbnail

The Art of Alignment: Balancing External & Internal Communications

Speaker: Vivek Bedi

There are a thousand moving parts to creating a product roadmap - particularly one that everyone can reference and use. Therefore, the development of an effective roadmap relies upon the ability to answer the question, "What is a roadmap, and what is it really going to be used for?". April 21, 2020 11AM PDT, 2PM EST, 7PM GMT.

article thumbnail

How Much is that Feature in the Window?

Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates

Roadmaps are about the future, and talking about a roadmap means talking about the future. This leads us to three obvious conclusions: You need multiple roadmaps. Roadmaps are guesses, and will often be “wrong”. The better you can manage expectations related to being “wrong," the better for everyone.

article thumbnail

How AI Can Help You Build Better Products: 10 Tools To Save You Time

AI can help with research, feedback management, user engagement, and roadmapping. AI is everywhere: from self-driving cars to text generation, to creating images and music. So, how can product managers use AI to save time and build better products? With AI, product managers can work faster and smarter.

article thumbnail

Managing Product Feedback at Scale

How to make more strategic product roadmap decisions based on data, not opinions. In this eBook, we’ll show you: How to gather, prioritize, and select the best ideas from your customers and stakeholders. How to make internal feedback more effective and inclusive. How to set expectations for new development both internally and externally.

article thumbnail

How to Scale a Data Literacy Program at Your Organization

Speaker: Megan Brown, Director, Data Literacy at Starbucks; Mariska Veenhof-Bulten, Business Intelligence Lead at bol.com; and Jennifer Wheeler, Director, IT Data and Analytics at Cardinal Health

Join data & analytics leaders from Starbucks, Cardinal Health, and bol.com for a webinar panel discussion on scaling data literacy skills across your organization with a clear strategy, a pragmatic roadmap, and executive buy-in.