Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. But the training was intense! Roadmaps are stories. ” A lot of roadmaps are simply incomprehensible.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. Output-focused product roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty, all while limiting product work to a few big bets, which may or may not pan out. We broke into pairs and then each pair developed a feature roadmap along a particular area of focus.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Organizing, automating, and making meaning out of this data tsunami is another critical product operations skill that lets product managers spend less time digging up or transmitting the basics and more time extracting the deep value that eventually informs the product roadmap. Facilitating product feedback review and planning meetings.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 15, 2017

Whether it’s your plans (roadmap), feedback you’ve heard from users, product usage data (analytics), or posing questions — getting what you’re doing and thinking in front of a cross-departmental audience will provide you with input that helps you make better decisions and will help align others with the goals you’re looking to achieve.

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B2B Product Management

DECEMBER 6, 2016

You also develop the roadmap and address the product development as per the roadmap. You work with Marketing to define the customer profile, you work with business development to do sales training and enablement. You define a high-level roadmap of the product. You define the pricing of the product.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sometimes CSPs [Customer Success Professionals] didn’t have this cause they hadn’t gone through sales training, they didn’t understand all the basics that maybe a salesperson might. So that’s kind of number one. That’s a big, big trend. The second trend is what we call “Operationalizing Outcomes.”

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

” Product: “We’re endlessly creating and updating demos, decks, product bulletins, release dates/roadmaps, FAQs, technical docs, checklists, cheat sheets -- but Sales hardly uses any of them, and still expresses deep frustration with us.  Sales Sales teams hate this.  They

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