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.

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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. Second, it overlaps with the product backlog, especially when detailed features are used. Outcome-based).

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 2, 2017

How would you assess your own roadmapping process? A new book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched, could help you re-think and re-launch your approach to Product Roadmapping. It’s a real practitioners’ book, written by four Boston-based leaders in Product Management: C. Register @ www.bostonproducts.org.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2020

When you have questions about roadmaps, it pays to talk to someone who has spent way too much of her life thinking about them. Janna Bastow – co-founder of both Mind the Product and ProdPad – has been trying to fix the problems of roadmaps for most of her professional life. The post Roadmaps Are Dead.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 10, 2024

” NotebookLM started as a 20% project and has grown into a product that’s spreading across social media and has a Discord server with over 60,000 users. This allows them to move faster and iterate quickly, much like a startup. Often, powerful technology is already available; the magic lies in how you interact with it.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

Guest Post by: Liel Aharon (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Felix Sargent]. At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. We had good production standards. We were doing Agile.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2017

As you may know, the product owner originated from Scrum, where the role is responsible for maximising the value the product creates. This sounds like a text-book product management responsibility to me. Additionally, some approaches like SAFe employ a separate product manager and product owner role.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

2] Figure 1: The Power-Interest Grid The grid divides stakeholders into four groups: crowd, subjects, context setters, and players depending on how interested they are in your product and how much power they have. Smaller strategy updates and product roadmapping decisions, however, are not as critical.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Product Manager, Ad Tech @ Media iQ Digital (New York) Keywords: Product , programmatic, Roadmapping [link]. Technical Product Manager, Leadfully @ SYPartners (New York) Keywords: product, product manager [link]. Check out this week’s newest, below….

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Recognise the Importance of Product Management. Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. I review strategies and roadmaps. I gather data through surveys about observations.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. The manager used wide gestures to show where he wanted to move certain elements. They have to tell you what people understand (or don’t understand) in your product, where do they get stuck, and what are the annoying usability issues.

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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

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 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Product leaders know that career growth isn’t always linear—stepping into leadership or establishing a product management function can be as complex as it is rewarding. Pro Tip from Aarti Iyengar : Focus on outcome-driven roadmap planning. This month’s TPG Live session tackled these pivotal challenges head-on.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 22, 2018

By Ellen Gottesdiener – Product Roadmaps Are Necessary for Product Success A product roadmap visually depicts how your product will evolve over time to realize your product vision and achieve continual value for your customers and business. (I

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2021

When I talk about roadmaps with younger product leaders, I often hear things like “we don’t need one, we are agile” or “why build a roadmap when things will surely change”. The roadmap sets the strategic direction of the company, and when built right it also doesn’t have to change that frequently, despite your agility.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

1password.com) Strikingly- Public Forum, Idea Forum , where customers request and vote on features Public Roadmap (ie Slack , bitsian ) . Product management comes down to discipline and process. Are things that we are learning finding their way into the roadmap? How do you manage their expectations? .

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” But sustainable pace is equally important for you, the person in charge of the product. What is Sustainable Pace? Prioritise.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

When I started my current product role last September, I had a textbook definition of what makes a great product manager. I interviewed for the Product Mentor program to participate as a mentee and receive guidance on how to gain these skills. Cornell Pineda is a Product Owner based in New York City.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Guest Post by: Lamia Benhaddou (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Amanda Ralph]. Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

One of the most challenging questions about product management has been – in my experience – “What is Product Management?”. We’re called “product” managers. We’ll start with a box labeled “Product.” By the end of this post you’ll have a much better context for thinking about “the product.”.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

The biggest difference between product management and portfolio management is product management focuses specifically on the success of each product whereas portfolio management focuses on the success of the company (the portfolio) in chosen market segments. Here’s a bonus.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

How Do You Stay True to Your Product Vision While Adapting to Market Realities? Market Demands Why Product Vision Often Gets Lost Product leaders start with a bold vision, but execution becomes difficult when: Market conditions change , requiring fast adjustments. Heres a sneak peek: Q: Im new to product management.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. The SAFe product owner who owns the product details. A portfolio owner who manages a group of (related) products. SAFe Product Owner. The agile scaling framework SAFe uses its own product owner role, the SAFe product owner.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework.

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Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2023

Don’t sweat it, product manager purists. Building a product management organization in this manner gets you into your dream job, the strategic product management role you’ve always wanted, and your new title reflects your actual responsibilities. You own the day-to-day care and feeding of your products.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2018

In this episode you’ll learn about some of the big ideas in product management to help you make the move to product master, specifically: The difference between building the product right vs. building the right product, Challenges of working with development teams, How to assemble a roadmap, Release planning, and.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

There are many different types of roadmaps and different formats that roadmaps can take. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Read how to embrace flexibility in product roadmaps using the FLEX Model, ensuring agile planning, innovation, and market adaptability for successful product development. Read more » The post Why sticking to a rigid product roadmap might be killing your product, and how to escape?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. The framework uses its own product owner role, which is different from the one in Scrum. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams.

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