The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Decision-making process for PMs: No common process, standardized No journey from OKRs to problems and solutions No articulation of the roadmap with uncertainty Not ahead of the needs Problems for making streamlined decisions, for articulating decisions. Low accountability Limited visions of the product by PMs. Low transparency.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It’s a model of an iterative process that systematically links the product strategy with the product roadmap , the product backlog , the development work, and the key performance indicators (KPIs). With an actionable product roadmap in place, move on and stock your product backlog.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is the Product Vision? The product vision describes the ultimate purpose of a product, the positive change it will bring about. As the product vision, I could then choose “help people eat healthily” or just “healthy eating.” What Makes a Good Product Vision? Who Owns the Product Vision?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Hard skills like market research or roadmapping are important, but they’re not enough. 17:30] Tell us about product vision. When you make a major change to an existing product, revisit the vision and adjust if necessary.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Product strategy workshops are facilitated sessions where key stakeholders come together to define the vision, goals, and roadmap for a product. The workshops help align the team on strategic…

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. As a rule of thumb, avoid meetings with more than ten attendees when you have to make high-impact decisions and/or rework the product strategy , product roadmap , or product backlog. 1 Set an Objective.

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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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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

How do you collectively build your marketing persona through a workshop? Preparing for a Persona Workshop. Market research and having a customer proxy are prerequisites for a persona workshop. As well as product managers, stakeholders, marketing, sales, and dev representatives should attend a persona workshop.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

This includes securing the necessary training budget and selecting the right training courses, as well as creating a training-on-the-job program, attending product strategy workshops as a stakeholder , and acting as a sparring partner for strategy-related questions.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

Design workshops, like persona, jobs-to-be-done or customer journey workshops can help the team to get a better understanding of customer’s pains and needs. These workshops are fun, and they are also useful to align the team and get everyone on the same page. Designers will also ask for feedback frequently.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. Teresa: One of the things I think I’ve written in the past is if your backlog or your roadmap or your idea log—whatever you’re going to call it—isn’t changing based on what you’re learning in discovery , there’s a disconnect there. What’s the vision? Stephanie: Exactly.

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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. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Strategic Portfolio Roadmapping Workshop. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to develop a strategic portfolio roadmap that drives new growth by shifting your inside-out product vision to an outside-in customer vision. This workshop is ideal if…. This workshop is ideal if….

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

A handy tool to capture your answers and describe the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in the picture below. You can download the template by clicking on the image and you can find more advice on how to use it in the article The Product Vision Board.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You use an outcome-based product roadmap and/or an opportunity solution tree , personas , user journey maps, and the product backlog to capture and validate your decisions and guide the product delivery effort. You employ the following artefacts: product vision and product strategy , business model and business case (if applicable), and KPIs.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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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. This includes the following ten capabilities: Formulating an inspiring vision for a product.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Then we put together a roadmap for change, and I check in with them along the way as they transform.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Previously, Bruce joined us for a three-part series on creating and using product roadmaps. He is the co-author of the book Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction While Embracing Uncertainty. 7:13] How did you move from focusing on roadmaps to focusing on stakeholder management? The goal is alignment of the team.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

“What’s on our strategic roadmap?” What’s our product vision?” If you’re the head of products or strategy in a B2B organization, you’re constantly fielding the “product vision and strategic roadmap” questions. Register for our Strategic Portfolio Roadmapping Workshop in Atlanta, GA on March 28th, 2017.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The first and possibly most powerful goal is the vision , which describes the ultimate reason for creating your product and the positive change it should bring about. As this example shows, the vision is an inspirational, visionary goal that cannot be measured. An example I like to use is healthy eating. Getting to Shared Goals.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

I distilled the advice a few months ago in my book The Essentialist Product Manager and have recently been giving talks and workshops on the topic. This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. Reinvention requires a product vision : a visual artifact that sets product direction over a longer term time horizon. Product vision is the critical bridge between strategy and execution. Unlock planning Facilitate multi-quarter roadmapping and resourcing.

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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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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]. Lead the Product.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Working on a product without a decent product vision resembles going into the street with eyes closed. This article will show how a product vision should look, how to create it and communicate it to all stakeholders in play. What is Product Vision? Product vision imagines a product direction in the long-term.

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UX Studio

AUGUST 14, 2017

A UX workshop can help you gather the team and brainstorm to make better decisions. In a UX workshop, we share research results with the participants and let them come up with their own conclusions. Get everybody on the same page with a UX workshop. Persona workshop. A canvas is often a good tool to run a UX workshop.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Use Collaborative Workshops to Review and Adapt the Strategy. Collaborative workshops with the key stakeholders and development team members are a great way to jointly review and adjust the product strategy. Having a dedicated facilitator allows you to fully contribute to the workshop.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. Let me walk through the entire workshop in the phases with its results. These 8 dimensions will be pillars of driving the vision and business outcomes right after the launch. refer to image 4).

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2019

Firstly we e xplain the “why” by defining an inspiring vision with the team, and having a clear goal. Finally we structure the “what” – this means we create systems, frameworks and processes, rather than feeding squads a roadmap. Create Ownership by Defining a Clear Vision and a Goal With Your Team.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2019

Whether co-located or distributed, a shared vision leads to shared values, which leads to shared knowledge, which leads to shared understanding. Make sure your team is familiar with your roadmap, with your customers and their use cases, and with your sales team and their wins and frustrations.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Admittedly he was joining after a disappointing spell in Italy, but his success with the Dutch champions, Ajax, with whom he won the Champions League four consecutive times, was heralded as the template for his vision at Crystal Palace. Instead you will be asked to implement your vision while making do with existing resources.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 11, 2016

1 Establish a Clear Vision. Establish a clear vision for introducing a product management group and explore why your company would benefit from it. For instance, the sales group is better able to focus on their actual job, and they can shape the product by attending product strategy and roadmap workshops and sprint review meetings.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Arrange workshops with stakeholders and ambassadors, and ask your Scrum Master and the Developers to join the effort. Team up with the user experience people and run, for example, user journey or user story mapping workshops. Proven examples are user story mapping or product roadmap planning workshops. (It

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

It involves driving change for the better through inspiring, role-modelling, vision setting, articulating, consulting, teaching and executing. Run meetings and workshops like a pro : with owners, agendas, action items, follow-ups. Don’t get tunnel vision. Get others to buy-in and added to your teams roadmap.

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