Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now a trainer, Discovery and Leadership consultant, he’s spoken at Mind the Product Engage (Hamburg and Manchester), the Business of Software, Turing Festival, a number of ProductTanks (London, Zurich, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford, and Brighton… so far!) and at conferences across the US and Europe. Talk to us.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Do they offer an opportunity to innovate, add, remove, or enhance product features, or even create a brand-new product? Talking to users, attending trade shows and conferences, and participating in the online communities can help you spot new trends.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

We’d spent weeks perfecting the roadmap presentation for our annual customer conference. It felt like people had overlooked all the greatness of our roadmap and were focused on the (relatively few) changes we’d made along the way. For many product people, this is the nightmare scenario of sharing their product roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Essential Questions That Lead To A Great Product Roadmap “The question ‘Why?’ I sat comfortably inside a long, wide, unfurnished conference room in what was to become an innovation hub — clearly, the team had yet to hire the decorators. True for life, true for your roadmap. However, it shouldn’t have mattered.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Why not, indeed?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I recently tweeted about timeline roadmaps saying they had to go. It’s something I’ve said in the past on conference stages, webinars, podcasts, Twitter, and elsewhere. I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. So what did I do with it all?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Companies with an existing product management group usually require up-skilling and retraining their product people, as well as adjusting roles and responsibilities and career plans. At another client, the newly created product management group looked after the tactical aspects of the company’s offerings.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

In most companies, we try to plan the long-term future with an organisational strategy which feeds into a product strategy. This in turn feeds project plans and feature roadmaps, and the micro-planning of an agile product team. Itamar argues that it has to do with planning and execution. The Planning Waterfall.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what the best product conferences of 2021 are? We’ve collected the best events for product folks that you can attend online or in-person. February Product Conferences. Product World. Product Con. ProductCon highlights Product Leaders from diverse backgrounds and leaders of color.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

In addition to deep product skills, you require generic, transferable product management capabilities, such as, effectively capturing the product’s value proposition , segmenting the market , validating product strategy assumptions , selecting the right KPIs , prioritising the product backlog , and analysing user feedback and data.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 24, 2019

For starters, we debuted not one but two new conferences – MTP Engage Manchester and #mtpcon Singapore. Our Singapore conference was also the catalyst for another new initiative this year, #mtpontour. Janna Bastow’s post on ditching your product roadmap timeline went viral. Worldwide Celebrations.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2020

Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about why we’re so hostile to including features on product roadmaps. Features have long been the basic unit of measurement that product development teams track.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

Too often, we start with an idea for a product and build it without doing real market research. A marketer or market research department can do it, or you can do it yourself by writing some surveys in a survey tool or interviewing people at a conference. 18:13] How can product managers engage those marketing resources?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Do regular research, attend trade shows and conferences, and consult journals, magazines, and user forums, for example. You may want to combine reviewing the market development together with the product performance in form of regular strategy and roadmap review meetings (as I discuss in more detail in my book Strategize ).

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ProductPlan

APRIL 2, 2020

Most of the top challenges these professionals cited had to do with communication: “working with other departments,” “getting consensus on product direction,” “communicating product strategy,” etc. That’s why the roadmap—the team’s strategic guidepost—is even more necessary for remote product managers or teams.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Joe Leech, Product Strategy Consultant. Joe Leech is a Product Strategy and UX consultant with 14 years experience helping companies and startups with product design, building the right stuff in the right order, and applying psychology in design and user experience. So what are you waiting for? Leadership Forum.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

This kind of serendipity is not a viable career strategy! It’s like a chance bit of customer feedback that we end up devoting a two-year roadmap to. It wouldn’t happen, because we all realise that serendipity is not a viable product strategy. The Roadmap. Why do people switch jobs?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

According to Ant Murphy, the reason is simple, you don’t have a prioritization problem, you have a strategy problem. We explain how to create a successful product strategy, the role of product strategy in prioritization, and how to align your prioritization efforts with your strategy. Ant Murphy.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 19, 2020

Breaking Down the Roadmap. Kara and her team are responsible for enterprise products at Gannett. They build products to serve hundreds of local news sites – sites that, during a crisis of this magnitude, are key to providing people with vital information every day. Not to mention more dogs and cats too!

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A value proposition helps us to focus on users and to check that our product solves a real problem. It helps us to avoid falling in love with our product, requires research and promotes honesty. It’s the foundation of our product strategy. And a product leader can help to make this happen. Product Lifecycle.

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Product Culture

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Boston Book Launch Party - Product Culture Team - Ed Arnold (suggested Lamplighter) Northern California Launch Parties - DesignMap: Audrey Crane, Amy Chang, Gregory Baker - Lean Product Meetup: Dan Olsen London Event - One Knight at the Pub - Jason Knight - Phil Hornby (for connecting Melissa with Jason) Latin America Tour - Laura Baverman - Guido (..)

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Bain Public’s associate product managers, Abigail Ramirez Villarroel and Tudor Gafiuc , attended the INDUSTRY: The Product Conference in Cleveland on September 20-21st, 2022. QUESTION 1: Do you think that company strategy and product strategy are the same? About INDUSTRY. About INDUSTRY's Fireside Chat.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Product Strategy. It’s not that they don’t describe some or all of the activities of product strategy, but in my experience, they are misplaced across the lifecycle phases instead of a distinct first phase. As a bridge between business strategy and product development, product strategy has one primary goal?—?creating

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

As the Head of Product at ProductPlan, I spend a lot of time talking to product teams and learning about their experiences throughout the product development process. Product teams are responsible for creating a strategy and explaining the “why” behind the product.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In terms of day-to-day work, associate product managers do everything a product manager does, but on a smaller scale. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Do you always start as an Associate Product Manager?

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

AlphaGo went on to win Game Two, and at the post-game press conference, Lee Sedol was in shock. Here’s the day-to-day product-shaping work of a PM, and how I believe AI will impact it: 1. 🤖🤖 Building a roadmap : Facilitated The job: Ideate, refine, prioritize, and get buy-in on a 3-to-6-month roadmap.

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Userpilot

JULY 25, 2024

Associate product manager’s main responsibilities As an Associate Product Manager, you play a crucial role in the product lifecycle. Here’s a breakdown of your core responsibilities: Product Strategy Development : Assist in crafting and executing product strategies aligned with company goals and market needs.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

The core dimensions and concepts of the product operating model. TL;DR Marty Cagan has over 20 years of experience helping most companies adopt the product model, founding the Silicon Valley Product Group, and speaking at major conferences. The face of the product operating model.

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2022

To help you in your first 90 days on the job, we’ve compiled a collection of some of the best product management resources. The collection includes our favorite conferences, podcasts, blogs, books, newsletters, courses, and Slack groups for product managers. Best reports, statistics, and product benchmarks.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

Whether it’s staying on the same page as the development team during a sprint or creating buy-in on the product strategy and roadmap, these solutions streamline communication, minimize confusion, and provide centralized repositories for crucial information. 2022 Budgets Include Hiring. Don’t Forget About Fun.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

This guide takes a deep dive into the world of technical product management , showing you how to become one of these in-demand professionals. We covered everything you need to know, from technical skills and responsibilities to a step-by-step roadmap for getting started. Develop the product vision and expand on the strategy.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

Chances are you already know their broad responsibility is to develop and implement a marketing strategy roadmap for a specific product. TL;DR The product marketing manager role (PMM) is primarily responsible for a product’s positioning, messaging, and branding. Who is a product marketing manager?

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Did your roadmap change? It doesn’t take a virus to derail a roadmap. With a healthy dose of ongoing measurement and recalibration, product teams should be confident in taking actions with the information they possess and not standing pat. Regular roadmap reviews. Reassert your leadership.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 10, 2017

A jobs-to-be-done interview would uncover that the person was an accountant filing several pages of notes taken at a recent conference. She’s ok – because the job is to make the information from the conference easy to access when needed next month, while also keeping her work area tidy. from ( Lists are not Roadmaps ).

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

It had a mix of technical and operational issues and was primarily used by consumers purchasing expensive tickets for festivals and conferences. Our company strategy was moving toward smaller gatherings with lower ticket prices. Multi-week product features are usually deprioritized.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. Women in Product aims to empower female product managers and the blog is one of the channels they use. Mind the Product. Why is team building important.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

We have to learn how to market and sell, and create a roadmap that can eventually be transitioned into an execution mode. In reality, no product falls cleanly into either category. A team may be tasked with increasing profit by 10%, and may be 95% certain of the roadmap to get there.

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