Mind the Product

AUGUST 31, 2018

Do you ever feel like breaking up with your roadmap? Todd Lombardo takes on a topic that is emotional to most of us as product managers – the product roadmap. The roadmap gets a lot of blame for this culture. What a Roadmap Isn’t. A roadmap can be many things. A roadmap is not a release plan.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Roadmaps require massive prioritization. It’s nice, but there is a much higher level of prioritization that needs to happen and would impact your roadmap much more. My parents love traveling and we traveled a lot as a family over the years. The same happens with your roadmap. But prioritizing what exactly?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

You have to work with different stakeholders to define the product vision and strategy, define the set of features that the product will have and figure out a rollout plan. Define Product Vision and Strategy. I recommend you also add to this board the product vision as suggested by Roman Pitchler’s Product Vision Board.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Photo: Pixabay/Vision We dream of various things. Many of us dream of traveling the world or going skydiving. A vision is intended to capture these aspects in a few sentences and briefly describe how the final product should look like and what it should do. To create the vision, I suggest using The Product Vision Board.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators.

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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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Ronke PM

MAY 8, 2024

At their heart, culture-driven product leaders have a shared promise: their organization's core values, mission, and vision. Furthermore, they have a clear product vision that culminates in building products that improve their customers' lives, and sometimes, those products may impact humanity as a whole.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The answer presented by an entry-level or an experienced PM, or by a Group product manager (GPM) lies majorly between two parameters - execution & strategy. It can be an Airbnb add-on to stay Homes and experiences (curated travel experience). Expected Response of A Candidate: The candidate should ask for historical market data e.g

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 10, 2017

By Garima Painuly- One of the constant challenges a product manager faces is creating a focused product roadmap that is aligned with expectations of all stakeholders, and defending that roadmap against distractions. The discussion topics were inspired by a blog post from Fresh Tilled Soil on Building a Product Roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators.

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Gainsight

JUNE 16, 2022

If you’re crafting a product roadmap, your vision and internal alignment must be crystal clear. . Too often, product leaders start building their roadmap plans only to be bombarded with conflicting feedback in all directions. So, how do you get beyond the distractions to build a roadmap you can defend and align around?

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Gainsight

AUGUST 22, 2021

Product-led growth (PLG) strategies are making waves in the SaaS industry—and that’s good news for SaaS product leaders and managers. By placing your product at the center of your growth strategy, your team can boost customer satisfaction, increase renewals, and lower acquisition costs. What is a product-led growth strategy?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Product goals are clear objectives that break down exactly how you’ll realize your product vision. They help bring your vision to life and inform your overall strategy. Start with your product vision (goals should help implement your vision). Goals should inform your product backlog and product roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

Our vision is to bring a messenger-first, personal experience to all customer and business communication. Our principles help us make decisions about strategy, roadmaps, design, and more. All together, our mission, vision, and principles inform and guide our daily work – they’re part of what makes us different.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

As the first and most senior PM, I recognized the need to clarify vision, formalize processes, and set a proactive agenda moving forward. They need to shift their focus to leveraging teams to execute their vision and it is up to you to help with this transition. Start at the Top. In most companies, this process is ongoing.

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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”. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

This guide shares key advice, tips, and strategies to help you become a SaaS product manager. Ideate: At this point, product managers use the conclusions they have drawn from analyzing customer feedback to come up with a strategy and plan that helps them successfully position their products within their markets.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. While salary increase is a complex subject with variables outside of our control, I believe that having a clear product roadmap and strategy is every Product Manager’s responsibility.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Also, building strategies for product management can make a big difference. Product owners A product owner focuses on the user’s needs, prepares what to build next, and builds a product roadmap. So, all the above skills should be possessed by the product owner for a better product vision.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Who else can interpret strategy from Product, Marketing, and elsewhere into the CS team’s role? They already own a vision, a revenue number, a team to inspire and coach, day-to-day execution, and every last individual customer. Every company creates a different strategy to improve retention, expansion, or efficiency.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 7, 2020

They also have Airbnb Experiences to help foster a sense of community, and having an ‘off the beaten path’ travel experience that lets you connect with local people. The outcome is a loyal travel community, and a source of income for those with a spare bedroom. there’s no need to panic.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash There is a misconception that building a roadmap will define a product’s future. But a roadmap doesn’t create a clear view of the future. Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. So why build a roadmap at all? Select a reasonable time range for the roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 28, 2018

Eisenhower developed a matrix to help decide how to prioritize tasks that land on your plate: When an urgent task comes your way, determine the level of importance by comparing it to your long term vision and goals. Product Depth > Product Width Focusing on your core strategy adds depth to your product’s strengths.

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Radical Product

JUNE 8, 2018

Photo by Kaleb Nimz on Unsplash whether we realize it or not Earlier this week I presented Radical Product, the global movement that’s building vision-driven products , at UX Fest, organized by Fresh Tilled Soil. Every one of us can own the product vision for our product so we can build products with purpose. What is a “good” vision?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2022

These kinds of questions evaluate your ability to think and work through technical dependencies, product context, execution strategy, and impact on a team. Design a service that supports uploading and tagging images to a travel site. Build a solution for Facebook employee travel. Watch our sample answer to this question here.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? How does what we’re building align with the wider strategy of the business? And you can keep travelling deeper and deeper into the functionality of a Trello card. Feature factories care little about the answers.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

5 Things To Know Before Getting Started If I could travel back in time, here are five things I would tell myself. There likely isn’t a roadmap, sprint planning, standard quality assurance procedure, or decision-making process across the company. It’s fine that we don’t come up with the perfect first roadmap. Be resourceful!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As they grew in the sport, playing competitive, travel soccer, I evolved as a fan and, more importantly, as an observer of team dynamics. Much like product teams, soccer teams require teamwork, an adaptable strategy, and a shared goal — to win. Soccer is a perfect parallel for product management and roadmap development.

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Mixpanel

JULY 22, 2020

Let’s start by thinking about where goals fit into the big picture: a goal tells you if you’re successfully executing your strategy. And strategy is just a plan to achieve your company’s mission. You’ve done the hard work to set a concrete goal that’s aligned with your mission and vision. What’s your ultimate mission?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

They’ve got the big vision for a grand building. They have a big vision about the software product (or products) they are building. They have a long-term roadmap that shows the way to get to something big. All while building out the experience within the building that will eventually lead to the bigger vision.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

A Product Manager’s responsibilities include: defining the product strategy and roadmap, and running beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and samples. In general, the amount of different activities in the Product Marketer’s daily work depends on the companies’ go-to-market strategy. Excellent teamwork skills.

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Amplitude

APRIL 4, 2017

There’s so much more road to travel, much more product development needed, and this is where brands often get tripped up. The Product Manager is responsible for creating a roadmap and prioritizing development work. They will then partner with the Product Manager to negotiate priorities within the backlog and roadmap.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Is this the end of travel? By March, they realized they needed to rethink their roadmap. How did you pivot your strategy? At Imperfect Foods, their annual OKRs and roadmap went out the window, according to Patti. All over the world, people are realizing we’re in an unprecedented time, and questions are swirling.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2022

You know where you’re departing from, where you want to get to, and what resources you have available (like the vehicle, budget, traveling gear, etc.), Another option is to be more flexible, choosing the road you want to travel and picking the stops along the way. Product roadmapping frameworks work in a very similar way.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Eighteen months ago travel tech company Almundo started to refine its processes to become a product-driven company. Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. What aligned roadmaps and OKRs together was the product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2019

The JTBD vision stems from business authors Lance Bettencourt and Anthony W. We must map these interactions and act accordingly ; but the most important factor is to switch the vision from the customer to the actual task they are undertaking. Then, go back to your headquarters and start aligning your roadmaps with these conclusions.

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