The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 22, 2025

From market research to roadmap prioritization, AI is reshaping how PMs operate, make decisions, and deliver value. Roadmap Prioritization: Smarter, Faster, Fairer Prioritization is where PMs earn their stripes—and where AI shines brightest. Balance short-term wins with long-term vision. And no, this isn’t about replacing PMs.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. Product strategy sits in between the mission and vision and the plan, either at the company level or at the team level.

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UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

Then, a budget is discussed, features are scoped, and everything is put into a phased roadmap. That roadmap is handed to product managers, who work with execution teams to begin “building.” Instead of static product roadmaps, you’re building systems that learn and respond. One that starts with the outcome, not the roadmap.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Its a leap of faith in their engineering counterpartsdelegating ownership of a UX decision. If the UXs long-term and holistic considerations are included in the final solution, then its cooperation. If the UXs long-term and holistic considerations are included in the final solution, then its cooperation.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

In this role, you will leverage your extensive experience turning ambiguous problems into clear and actionable deliverables, aligning internal and external leaders on a shared, ambitious vision. Background delivering successfully on multi-quarter roadmaps and aligning diverse stakeholders to achieve shared goals.

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

From Raw Data to Clarity — Cleaning, Sorting, and Synthesising Insights Part 4 (of 5) of the UX Research Playbook series Synthesising qualitative data is similar to reaping the harvest after the diligent effort poured into research — it’s the step where hard work blossoms into meaningful insights.

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Modus Create

MAY 8, 2025

Organizations need clear product vision and outcome-driven investment models that include space for experimentation, not just delivery. Hypothesis-led roadmapping, real-time validation, and prompt-driven prototyping become critical. You must be able to make well-timed bets , not just chase hype.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Youll blend the strategic mindset of a growth product manager with the creative vision of a UX designer – driving repeat engagement, gamification, and social participation. A job seeker with 8+ years of experience in product management or UX design, especially for mobile apps or games. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

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UX Planet

MARCH 15, 2025

We often discuss strategy, vision, and long-term goals, feeling like were making progress. The truth is, design forces commitment something that many in businessfear: A product roadmap can be vague, leaving room for flexibility andchange. A vision statement can inspire, but it doesnt require anyone toact.

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Centercode

JUNE 11, 2025

Help them see how usability issues connect to roadmap priorities. Tips for Balancing Executive Opinions and Beta Results Test Management Navigate executive opinions and beta test data to make smarter product decisions that balance vision with user feedback. Share quotes or survey comments that capture user frustration.

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UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

As a designer, you can either specialize in a specific area, like design systems or UX research, gradually growing in seniority and eventually becoming a valued expert or consultant. Carla M Valdes shares her observations on how the UX director role is being absorbed by product managers. 22–27 (4) Russell L.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2025

Proven experience working in a technical environment with cross-functional teams to drive product vision, define requirements, and guide the team through key milestones. Passion for design and figuring out best-in-class solutions to UX, UI, and interaction challenges.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I believe the main culprits are Mr. Roadmap and Mr. Backlog. Culprit #1: Mr. Roadmap. You’ve likely worked on new features, bug fixes, minor UX improvements, perhaps tackled some technical debt, and so on. . How should we balance technical debt vs our feature roadmap? Why is that? Progress bars and Milestones. .

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Melissa Perri

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Product Roadmaps, in general, are confusing. Three years ago I wrote a blog post about Rethinking the Product Roadmap , in which I advocated for a focus on solving customer problems instead of listing out features with deadlines. But first, let’s talk about Roadmaps in general, and how they got us on the wrong track to begin with.

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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. Research article.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

In product management you’re schooled to, identify who your customers are; identify a value proposition strategy and to persuade stakeholders of the vision you want to achieve. UX, Business or Technology focussed product manager?). Do you have a Product Roadmap? What is your product vision? MVP of you.

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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. Book the demo!

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Typically, there are two big phases in bringing a product from vision to launch: planning and execution. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap? We tap into all of that to write the vision document. [8:27] At what cadence do you do that?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy. [1] To get started, create your own Portfolio Vision Board by downloading and adapting the Product Vision Board or by recreating it in your favourite tool.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To successfully manage your product and maximise value delivery, you should use additional artefacts including the following five: An inspiring vision that describes the ultimate reason for offering the product; A validated product strategy that captures your approach to realise the vision and make the product successful.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

What’s more, the dev team is cross-functional and may include UX and UI designers, developers, and testers, alongside other roles. The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. You therefore play a dual role: You are leader and contributor.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

What’s more, the dev team is cross-functional and may include UX and UI designers, developers, and testers, alongside other roles. The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. You therefore play a dual role: You are leader and contributor.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 4, 2017

You remove frictions in UX, you scale your product, and you scale your teams. Learning and growing are antagonistic by nature, which is why many companies face the roadmap dilemma. Ways that the Roadmap Dilemma Presents Itself. Deconstructing the Roadmap Dilemma. Both modes often cohabit on a roadmap. Frictionless.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

So after growing our design team at UX studio from 2 to 20 people, I share my learnings with you about how to work with designers. Designers and UX researchers will be motivated if you give them important product issues to solve. That’s why we have UX researchers working besides designers, because good design needs a lot of research.

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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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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. How far ahead is your roadmap determined? Look for a defined roadmap that allows for modification and pivots along the way.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

It’ll describe some points divided as follows: Setting the product vision Getting people onboard (stakeholder management) to make it happen How to talk with other areas to get to this vision Why is setting a Product Vision important? Alice Product Manager”- Without Product Vision, any direction will be taken.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2020

Core to that balance is a diversity of skill sets and vision on the team working in alignment. Typically, a product manager will take on team strategy, a designer will take on UX and ensuring that the whole system fits together, and engineers will build, run and maintain our systems. Product managers should not build the roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is Product Roadmap?

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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. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. You have this grand vision. I was lucky because I had a product owner and I wanted to get rid of product owners, but one of my product owners told me that she would love to become a UX researcher.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2020

?. While it might be obvious that there’s usually a team of people collaborating on the vision and creation of good design, this truth applies just as much to the end user – there’ll be more than one person on the receiving end. Jared points to “experience visions” as a fantastic tool to help guide the decision-making process.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! The strategy should also have information about the UX team, processes, and guidelines.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

While the three roles exercise different leadership, the people involved must effectively collaborate to achieve product success and align product strategy, roadmap, backlog, design and technology, and process decisions—without losing focus of their respective core responsibility. [1]. If you can do the UX design, then why hire a designer?

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