Usersnap

JUNE 26, 2025

Roadmaps ship but they don’t shift any key metrics. Instead, run a Competitive Mapping Workshop : List 3–5 key competitors Compare what they say vs. what they actually deliver (positioning vs. reality) Spot the whitespace: what are they missing that you can own? Interviews happen but no one acts on the findings.

Product Research

UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

Clustering notes for brainstorming and affinity diagramming: Miro provides text recognition and clustering of notes features, making it ideal for affinity mapping and identifying patterns during brainstorming sessions or workshops. Involve cross-functional teammates in synthesis “Workshops are an opportunity for storytelling.

Data Visualization

UX Planet

JANUARY 18, 2025

We conducted joint workshops to discuss trade-offs, explore alternative solutions, and ensure everyone understood the projects scope and constraints. This provided a clear roadmap for the entire team and helped us stay on track. Project Planning: A key aspect of our approach has been careful planning and execution.

Customer Feedback

Business Acumen Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Product Strategy and Roadmapping : Explore the key concepts of product strategy and learn how to create successful product roadmaps. How to Create a Business Case : Learn how to develop compelling business cases to secure funding and drive innovation. How to Create a Winning Strategy : Master the art of strategic thinking and planning.

Books

Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

” Matt LeMay Most teams dont suffer from a lack of ideas; they suffer from chasing work that looks good on a roadmap but fails to drive results. Thats what product development feels like in most organizations.” You’ll likely burn fuel, time, and goodwill without achieving anything meaningful.

Product Research

UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This solutioning endeavor was executed in 4 months, which included all Design work/research (workshops, iterative cycles, refinements, flows, wireframes, prototypes, visual design), development, and go to market strategy. What does a “deeply committed team” actually means? What does a “deeply committed team” actually means?

Research Software

Gainsight

JULY 31, 2025

During Pulse Unplugged, we talked about formats like onboarding cohorts, roadmap previews, and industry-specific workshops. The best scale programs flex by persona, segment, or lifecycle moment—and feel like they were built just for that user.

Customer Experience

Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Strong roadmap and product sense: can context switch between detailed work and high-level strategy/vision, ability to PM basic initiatives end-to-end. Product Manager At-Bay (20212023): Defined and executed the roadmap for a broker platform and end-customer portal at a Series D cybersecurity/insurtech firm.

Analytic Tools

UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

But over time, especially in engineering-heavy organizations, you start to miss the designer’s mindset: the creative workshops where ideas bounce freely, the casual but inspiring community meetups, the abstract discussions, and the shared references to the broader artistic and cultural world.

User Testing

Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

Roadmap

The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Running a User Story Map workshop with your team will give you a comprehensive list of features prioritized by different releases ( you want to ocus on learning quickly ), and you will have common understanding among the different people involved. This is where Roman Pichler’s GO Product Roadmap comes in handy. Slice Out Releases.

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. This makes the product roadmap more susceptible to change and it increases the effort to update it.

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Before you order the roadmap items, double-check that you have a validated product strategy in place. If you haven’t nailed the answers, then do not continue the roadmapping effort. Otherwise, your roadmap may be built on false assumptions. To prioritise the product roadmap, consider in which life cycle stage your product is.

Roadmap

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.

Roadmap

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.

Roadmap

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.

Product Strategy

Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2022

Organizing a workshop is also a kind of journey, and we're ready to share the roadmap with you. In the previous part of this article, we covered the preparatory phase of the customer journey mapping workshop, and now it's time to delve into the actual conduct of the session and what follows. [.]

Workshop

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. Mental models for decisions not clear. Team dynamics and structure.

Product Research

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

How does it differ from a product roadmap and how do the two plans relate? At the heart of the model in figure 1 are four artefacts: the product vision, the product strategy, the product roadmap, and the product backlog. With a validated strategy in place, you are in a great position to build an actionable product roadmap.

Product Strategy

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.

Product Management

Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

To build such a stakeholder community, try the following techniques, which I discuss in more detail in my book How to Lead in Product Management : Bring people together and have joint workshops instead of holding separate conversations with the individual stakeholders, see also the section below. Establish clear roles and responsibilities.

Weak Development Team

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…

Workshop

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. This makes the product roadmap more susceptible to change and it increases the effort to update it.

Roadmap

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.

Construction

Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

If that’s not the case, then it will be difficult to encourage the individuals to agree to more specific goals and to follow a product strategy and a product roadmap that are based on the vision. Visioning Workshop Attendees. Encourage the participants to describe the purpose that they associate with the product.

Vision

Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2021

And just like I encourage trios to share their discovery context before they share their roadmaps and backlogs, I’ll do the same here, before I talk about my plans for the year ahead. To address this opportunity, we launched our two-day Continuous Discovery Habits workshop. My personal roadmap looks like this: Now.

Books

Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Emily Tulloh – and the overview on Workshop on Service design in a climate emergency – What do digital services in a world of net-zero look like? The post Carbon Neutral Roadmaps – Chris Adams on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Emily Cunningham. And some honorary Emilys: Maddie Stone.

Product Research

Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

To prevent your product backlog from becoming a wish list, follow these two tips: First, select a product goal and align your product with a strategic plan like a product roadmap (as I discuss below). Collaborative Product Backlog Workshop. Product Roadmap, Product Backlog, and Product Goal. Second, have the courage to say no.

Weak Development Team

Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Hard skills like market research or roadmapping are important, but they’re not enough. A collaborative workshop with key stakeholders is a great way to kick off a new product development effort and create the initial vision. Hard skills like market research or roadmapping are important, but they’re not enough.

Agile

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.

User Testing

Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And finally, Tali was so convinced of the power of opportunity solution trees that she started leading workshops at product events to teach others how to use this tool. Tweet This After trying it out herself, Tali conducted a series of workshops with her dev team, explaining the basic concepts and then filling out the tree together. “It

Analytic Tools

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 ).

Reporting Tools

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.

Product Research

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 should therefore involve them in creating and updating the plans, preferably in the form of collaborative workshops.”

Product Research

Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

What’s more, the decisions captured in the product strategy are crucial to achieve product success: I view them as prerequisites for deriving an actionable product roadmap with specific, measurable product goals or outcomes that direct the development of the product. Contrast this with the product strategy and the product roadmap.

Vision

Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

When No-one Agrees With Your Roadmap. What do you need as a product person looking to get a roadmap updated or in place? You don’t need consensus to get your roadmap in place. Let’s clarify (and repeat) that: You do not need consensus to get your roadmap in place, nor do you need it to edit your roadmap.

Roadmap

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.

Roadmap