Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer. But instead of telling a clear, compelling story, they send out a spec or share a roadmap deckand hope it gets read. Customers dont care about data structures. When people see the vision, they align faster.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

Additionally, the different parts have to fit together and support each other. Therefore, ensure that your system is consistentthat its components are carefully chosen and fit together well. Then, determine how to address it, for instance, by interviewing target customers or creating a throwaway prototype.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

There are many issues with having clients drive the roadmap. It is much better to think ahead and innovate to create products that fit into the bigger vision of the company. Secondly, waiting for clients to drive the roadmap tends to puts companies in a situation where the backlog becomes too large to practically handle.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 6, 2025

The company operated a software platform for their call center, managing customer communications while ensuring compliance with state regulations. As VP of Operations, Kim worked with third-party engineering consultants to improve the platform’s ROI and customer outcomes.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Overview of the Learning Roadmap. Like a modern product roadmap, a learning roadmap states the specific outcomes or benefits you’d like to achieve to become a more competent product person, and it captures them in form of learning goals. To make these ideas more concrete, let’s look at a sample learning roadmap.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Firstly, Jeff as a new umbrella brand for all the new services will be providing to our customers; Secondly, a new business line called Beauty Jeff was opening the very first venue in Argentina. For product leaders, that means taking a step back to build a team that can be customer-centric and deliver ongoing innovation to the market.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

In our latest Productside webinar, Becoming an Effective Product Management Leader , Principal Consultants Roger Snyder and Kenny Kranseler delivered a no-nonsense roadmap for new leaders who want to nail their first 90 days (and beyond) and get the tools on how to become a product management leadereffectively. The principle stays the same.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. Customer discovery is key to informing product strategy and there is a mountain of techniques and methods available for conducting customer discovery. It allows you to tap into the most influential customers.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2019

Some organizations lean toward execution, with a focus on product artifacts like PRDs, user stories, and roadmaps. Others focus on UX, emphasizing wireframes and user flows. While still others may focus on data analysis, customer research, project management, or even engineering. How often do you speak to users?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Estimates are unreliable, problems grow in scope, and we don’t know what will work until we test it. Question: How do you respond to requests for date-based roadmaps? To provide a bit more context, one CDH community member was being drawn into theoretical debates about date-based roadmaps. The same is true for product teams.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? And, how do you also tell the difference between what feedback to incorporate?

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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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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The key results might then be “simplify user journey A” and “enhance feature alpha.”. In figure 1 above, the key result “simplify user journey alpha” becomes an objective with two new key results, “remove user journey step two” and “improve performance by 10%” thereby connecting the two OKRs. Figure 1: Cascading OKRs.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I believe the main culprits are Mr. Roadmap and Mr. Backlog. Culprit #1: Mr. Roadmap. How should we balance technical debt vs our feature roadmap? Bugs can be valued in terms of quality outcomes like reducing support needs or improving user satisfaction. Why is that? Chock-full of Themes, Epics, Releases and Features.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2020

Many product managers, including myself, often reflect and think hard around the areas which they need to invest in to progress in their career; is it A/B testing, data analysis, go to market skills? This has helped the team push themselves further to deliver something as the reward was personal and more fitting to them.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Some view it as the product vision , others equate it to the product’s value proposition. A sample goal might be to acquire users, increase conversion, generate revenue, or reduce technical debt. What’s more, I like to ensure that product goals are connected to the product strategy and its user and business goals.

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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. Research article. 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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Productside

MAY 27, 2025

Theyve been asked to come back with a strategy that delivers more value to customers and drives measurable business growth. Recognizing the Potential of Product Management and Product Strategy Heather and Tommy have been given a clear mandate from leadership: align product management with user needs and business goals.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

You want to be the product that is useable, feasible and valuable to the target audience/customer ie you’re selling yourself as the solution to some specific company’s specific problem. If you are just starting out in your product management career it is important to look at where you fit in the market. Do you have a Product Roadmap?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. You are also able to skilfully deal with difficult feedback and criticism that others share with you.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

I like to think of the product strategy as a high-level plan that helps you realise your vision and that answers the following four questions: Who is the product for? Who are the users and, if appropriate, who are the customers? To capture the product strategy, you can use my product vision board.

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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Product managers push for roadmaps. Somewhere in the middle, customer needs get lost in translation. Clear feedback loops. They thought their work spoke for itselfuntil a listening tour revealed how disconnected they were from their customers. Thats why we test. Engineers push back with technical constraints.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I view it as an entity that creates tangible value for users and possibly customers as well as the business. Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it. Smaller strategy updates and product roadmapping decisions, however, are not as critical. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

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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

MARCH 14, 2017

We like to get painful user problems to solve. You can ask me to change the color somewhere or put a button on a screen, and I will probably do that, but I really like to get challenging problems where I can do my research build prototypes, do user tests, and come up with a solution that will raise our product to the next level.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’ And web notifications also pop up whenever a customer visits your website. Tweet This.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1] It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1]

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. I wanted to learn how this company creates competitive products, differentiating on cost while offering comparative capabilities that equates to much higher value for customers. The leading brand cost about $150.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 10, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Traditional vs Outcome-based Roadmaps Before I share the four steps, let me briefly describe the main differences between a traditional, feature- and an outcome-based product roadmap. A traditional roadmap is essentially a list of features, which are mapped onto a timeline.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

This can include user research and discovery, heuristic evaluation, and results of usability testing. Pain points : If youre going to redo the functional logic of your product, you should definitely add customer pain points. Pain points introduce friction in user experience and reduce the comfort of interaction.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

A dashboard showing metrics like feature adoption or user engagement amplifies your credibility. Address Pain Points Proactively: Regularly ask for feedback to show you value their input and are ready to adjust course. Connect Decisions to Customer Needs: Show how your roadmap addresses customer pain points to build trust.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. Myth #4: The product owner is responsible for writing user stories.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 22, 2024

Get to Know Your User (30 minutes) First things first – who are you solving for? This step is all about understanding who your user is. Dig into the Problem (30 minutes) Now that you know your user, it’s time to get to the heart of the issue. ” Perhaps users are spending a lot of time on manual tasks.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It sounds simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. – Tweet This While many product teams want to talk to customers every week, they struggle to make this a reality. You’ll hear how Orbital addresses many of their needs and helps the HiveMQ team generate a steady stream of customers to speak with every week.

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