The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

You’re Stuckand It’s Because You’re Playing by the Rules In product management, youve been told to follow the rules: stick to the roadmap, build consensus, and hit your OKRs. As can be easily found in many organizations: Roadmaps trap you in outdated plans. Rule 1: Trust the Roadmap Roadmaps are your comfort zone.

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The Product Guy

MAY 1, 2025

But it can help you do them more effectively.

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2025

Feature bloat slows teams down, confuses users, and hides the real value of your product. This new Patreon-exclusive article in the Roadmap to Mastery series explores how to lead feature removals with evidence, clarity, and confidence. But most teams avoid removals because they feel risky, political, or like an admission of failure.

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The Product Guy

MAY 16, 2025

This new Patreon-exclusive article in the Roadmap to Mastery series explores how to lead prioritization with structure, confidence, and buy-in. Balancing technical constraints, stakeholder agendas, and long-term goals is hard. Even experienced PMs get stuck in opinion-driven debates or lose clarity under pressure.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Without the strategy, it’s virtually impossible to determine the right features and user experience: If we don’t understand who the users are and which problem the product should solve, how can we then identify the right functionality and capture the right user stories?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2025

In todays product environment, questions are your sharpest tool for uncovering user needs, guiding teams, and influencing outcomes. In our newest Patreon-exclusive Roadmap to Mastery article , we explore: The types of questions that unlock clarity across customers, teams, and stakeholders. How asking What are we really trying to solve?

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2025

Saying no to leadership Prioritizing customer needs over politics Aligning cross-functional teams These challenges do not reflect a lack of skill. They require balancing diplomacy, data, and leadership under pressure.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 4, 2021

Insights on roadmaps, metrics, OKRs, and more for product managers. Joining us for this episode is a CPO who shares some of the tools he uses, including roadmaps, metrics, and OKRs. Increasingly, CPOs are also thinking about the user experience strategy. 5:42] How do you use roadmaps? What is the solution?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In our latest Patreon-exclusive article , part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , we explore: Why trust is now a product featurenot just a brand value. This is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collectionavailable exclusively on The Product Way Patreon. Actionable strategies to integrate trust into your product strategy.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

” In our latest Patreon-exclusive article , part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , we explore: Why soft skillsnot technical skillswill be the deciding factor in PM success. This is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collectionavailable exclusively on The Product Way Patreon.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 5, 2025

In our latest Patreon-exclusive article , part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , we explore: The most common mistakes PMs make in stakeholder alignment. A case study on how realigning priorities increased user engagement by 25%. This is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collectionavailable exclusively on The Product Way Patreon.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 3, 2025

Youve aligned the roadmap. Read it now on The Product Way Patreon : [link] Exclusive Access to Mastery This post is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , a premium series on The Product Way Patreon. Youve got the stakeholders in the room. But still things stall. Because alignment isnt enough.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Like that soccer team, products can fall apart when the team doesn’t work together toward a common goal following a roadmap. Soccer is a perfect parallel for product management and roadmap development. While they might seem worlds apart, they share common core principles for success — especially when it comes to roadmap development.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This leads to a weak value proposition and a poor user experience, which are hardly hallmarks of a great product. But if you are not able to say no , your product backlog is in danger of serving individual stakeholders and their personal goals—rather than maximise the value the product creates for the users and the business.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Level two increases empowerment by adding the authority to determine the features and user experience the product should offer. 3] Level 2: Product Discovery Level-two empowerment means that you determine the product features and user experience.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 16, 2025

It means creating space for experiments, reflection, and learning – even when things dont go as planned. Innovation doesnt mean chasing every idea or launching fast for the sake of it.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Want to learn how to create a robust UX roadmap for your UX team ? We also discuss the benefits of UX roadmaps, present different types, and share top tips for building them. TL;DR UX roadmap is a strategic plan outlining UX initiatives and guiding the UX design process. What is a UX roadmap? UX roadmap.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

. – Isa Olsson, UX Researcher and Designer at Zoezi Finally, Zoezi users had no easy way to report issues from within the product. They had to leave the app and use email, which was inconvenient and led to poor user experience. Userpilot offered the best functionality and for a good price too.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. Close the meeting.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Third, product goals help you connect the product roadmap and the product backlog , assuming that you use a goal-oriented plan like my GO product roadmap. Choose the next outcome on the roadmap as your product goal and copy it into the product backlog. Does it offer the right user experience (UX) and the right functionality?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates. Why a Product Strategy Process Matters.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

The product team is led by a Scrum product owner who ensures that the right product decisions are made, that a valid product strategy and an actionable roadmap are available, who prioritises the product backlog, and who engages the stakeholders.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

But to take advantage of new and existing digital assets, align them with physical products and services and create a seamless user experience, and increase the overall value created, companies require product professionals—dedicated, qualified product people who look after the digital assets. Take the product roadmap, for example.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

This can result in a Frankenstein product, a product that has a horrible value proposition and offers an awful user experience instead of creating real value for the users and the business. To avoid this issue, adopt a holistic approach and systematically link your strategy, roadmap, and backlog.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This article is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collectionavailable exclusively on The Product Way Patreon. Dont miss outunlock the full article today: [link] Exclusive Access to Mastery This post is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , a premium series on The Product Way Patreon.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Identify needs that are not yet met and use this to inform your product roadmap. Get validation of your priorities by asking members how they feel about your roadmap and it’s prioritization. As a Product Manager, I embed myself embed myself at the intersection of business, technology, and user experience. Prioritization.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

An agile development team does a good job if the memebers can reliably meet the agreed goals and create software that offers a great user experience and exhibit the desired quality. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance. The post Five Product Owner Myths Busted appeared first on Roman Pichler.

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UX Planet

APRIL 17, 2025

A harmonious blend of User Experience and Conversion Rate Optimization. This article is your roadmap to understanding how these two concepts dont just coexist but thrive together, amplifying both user satisfaction and your bottomline. Lets dive into the world of User Experience and Conversion Rate Optimization.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Read it now: [link] Exclusive Access to Mastery This post is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , a premium series on The Product Way Patreon. But this is just a glimpse. For the full story and actionable strategies, youll need to unlock the article. Exclusive deep dives like this one on strategic influence.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 15, 2024

The roadmap to becoming a UI/UX designer is less about following a strict path and more about embracing a mindset of continuous learning. Let’s review the UI/UX roadmap, what UI and UX are, and how you can get into this career path. TL;DR UX design aims to create meaningful, relevant experiences for users.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Product Teams For product teams, open text analysis helps shape a customer-focused product roadmap that not only addresses user concerns but also improves engagement and drives revenue. How can we improve the user experience? It can help answer questions such as: Which product features should we prioritize?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What kind of user experience (UX) should the product give rise to? In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

Pain points introduce friction in user experience and reduce the comfort of interaction. Clearly highlight the main pain points and issues with the current user experience and how they impact business bottomline. Example of pain points that offline shopper experiences. Image by PowerSlides.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

With all the best practices out there, improving CX without a customer experience roadmap can get overwhelming. Building a roadmap can help you understand your customer’s point of view, determine the CX tactics you should apply, and prioritize the tasks with greater returns. What is a customer experience (CX) roadmap?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A product analytics strategy is essential for any business looking to make informed decisions about product development and user experience. Plus, there are many reasons why you need a product analytics strategy: Aligns product development with user needs and business goals. Why should you have a product analytics strategy?

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