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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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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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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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. No pressure.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

PDMA invited me to their conference, which was in Orlando, Florida, to interview some of their speakers. This speaker emceed the conference and presented on Lean Product Management: How to Achieve Product-Market Fit. For example, yesterday at the conference, Hershey brought a huge table of chocolate.

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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? That’s simply a byproduct.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We’re beyond excited to be bringing our flagship conference #mtpcon – the world’s biggest and best product conference – to Singapore on March 25-26. All our conferences sell out so don’t miss out and grab your workshop tickets and conference tickets today! Workshop tickets Conference tickets.

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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. When I saw the results I thought it was worth saying on Twitter what I’ve said before: the timeline roadmap simply has to go (said Twitter thread caught fire!).

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2023

How Product Roadmaps Bridge the Gap and Fuel Success. “A A product roadmap is a tool for communication and alignment. Central to this journey is the product roadmap. The Journey of a Product: The Roadmap Queue the time travel music. Then it happens, “Can you skip this and go right to the product roadmap?”

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

We tried a lot of products and sent them to conferences. We build our strategic roadmap each year and revisit it every six months, making sure it’s aligned with the company’s goals. The roadmap will help you make sure every feature aligns with the basic goal of the company.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

In my view, he or she should have these main skills: manage the release process and roadmap prioritization, be able to suggest technical solutions during discussions with developers, and be knowledgeable in all the tools and terminology of the Agile process. I established my relationship with the team mostly through web conferences.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what the best product conferences of 2021 are? February Product Conferences. We are already halfway through the shortest month of the year, but that doesn’t mean you have missed your chance at some quality conferences. What: The largest online product management conference in the world with years of digital experience.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates. Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. Do they impact your product?

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 10, 2019

Ask questions, gather feedback, and re-prioritize your product roadmap based on what you learn. Make real-life connections at conferences. Here are a few of our favorite conferences where you can connect with fellow product leaders. Delight UX/Product Conference. How to Keep Up. Casual connect. Customer Love Summit.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Talking to users, attending trade shows and conferences, and participating in the online communities can help you spot new trends. Assess the product strategy and product roadmap together with development team representatives and key stakeholders. Are there any new technology, regulatory, or social trends that you should be aware of?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

This helps the individuals embrace an agile mindset, take advantage of new techniques and tools—think of hypotheses-driven strategy validation, goal-oriented product roadmaps, and user stories—and effectively collaborate with the agile development teams. Take the product roadmap, for example.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. The result of this meeting might be a set of ideas that support your existing roadmap strategy.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It could be that they heard an inspiring talk or maybe at a conference, but I think it’s more likely that they’ve heard from a board member or an investor or somebody that the CEO considers to be influential. They could have heard it from a member of their executive team, from their leadership team.

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2017

In April, we posted this list of conferences. Since then, I’ve been asked dozens of times what my favorite product conference is. It’s the only product conference where I feel confident that the content will push my thinking and that there will be a number of great parties. Janna drops a brilliant insight.

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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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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Where we used just to have to rely on Marty Cagan’s book Inspired , we now have books on a diverse range of product management topics, from product leadership to roadmapping. Today product management is a global community, with many established conferences and training programmes to support it.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

This in turn feeds project plans and feature roadmaps, and the micro-planning of an agile product team. Scientists don’t lock themselves in a conference room to convince each other with opinions. The Planning Waterfall. If we take a macro view of this process we see that nothing about it is agile. The Planning Delusions. Linus Pauling.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 15, 2024

The roadmap to becoming a UI/UX designer is less about following a strict path and more about embracing a mindset of continuous learning. Let’s review the UI/UX roadmap, what UI and UX are, and how you can get into this career path. That said, a UX roadmap is not just about visuals; it’s about the overall feel of the experience.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 2, 2020

That’s why the roadmap—the team’s strategic guidepost—is even more necessary for remote product managers or teams. We’ll discuss best practices for product managers who need to create and share roadmaps with their teams virtually. But to give those best practices context, let’s first review the purpose of product roadmaps in general.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2019

Using the right tools is a piece of advice which applies to any workplace, but when you’re distributed this becomes vital, as these are your sole methods of communication – Slack becomes the proverbial tap on the shoulder, a Zoom call becomes a quick meeting, an emoji is that high five across the conference table. Are you sure?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Tickets for the main conference day are available now. . Pre-Conference Workshops. April 19th, the pre-conference day, will be all about improving your skills as well as laying the social foundation for an engaging conference day. Roadmapping (with C. Conference Day. April 20th is the big conference day.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 20, 2025

Lightning talks at Business of Software Conferences are fast, focused and packed with insights. Steve McLeod – How Bootstrapped Teams REALLY Choose What Feature to Build Next Ever wondered how successful bootstrapped teams prioritize their product roadmap? Grab the Early Bird rate

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Often when product managers are pulled into customer conversations, they are asked to either present the product roadmap or help out with an escalation, neither of which are ideal for learning about the customer. During product roadmap presentations, product managers are expected to appear knowledgeable.

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bpma ProductHub

JUNE 21, 2017

The theme for the evening was “Agile Product Roadmaps”. Topics included: My First Roadmap. Roadmaps vs, Committed Features. Roadmaps ‘smells’. What’s the Right Level for Roadmap “Chunks”. Kill the Roadmap. Roadmaps for external v internal projects. Getting ‘why’ Into Your Roadmap.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

and at conferences across the US and Europe. and at conferences across the US and Europe. Listen if you’d like to learn more about. Experimentation. Who should be involved and when to do it. Our theme music is from Hamburg-based Pau, featuring ProductTank Hamburg’s own Arne Kittler on bass. Experimentation. *

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Also at this year’s San Francisco conference, my co-founder Janna Bastow shared some of the tricks and tactics she’s found useful to employ when dealing with people – using open questions, games, telling stories and more. Product roadmaps are an evergreen challenge, and featured heavily as a topic on the Mind the Product blog this year.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 20, 2018

So in the hope that I have done enough to find my name on the Nice List, here is my wish list this Christmas: Autonomy to manage my roadmap. this year I would really rather have the ability to focus on my goals , and adjust my roadmap based on the learnings I’ll get from research and experiments along the way. Merry Christmas!

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

I hosted Rohini on our podcast to talk about everything from prioritization and product roadmaps to the nitty-gritty techniques for parsing customer feedback. For example, our roadmapping process is customized in ways that work for our team. Let’s talk roadmaps. No one knows what a roadmap actually looks like.

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Mind the Product

MAY 4, 2018

MTP Engage is the smaller sister of the #mtpcon product conferences in London and San Francisco, and this year we had close to 400 people at the main event (25% more than last year). The night before the conference we put together eight different groups of product people and sent them out to some of our favourite Hamburg restaurants.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 1, 2017

It’ll be hard to choose between the second edition of Marty Cagan’s seminal Inspired , Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, and Nate Walkingshaw’s Product Leadership , and C Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan, and Michael Connors’ Product Roadmaps Relaunched – so why not get all three?

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Mind the Product

JULY 19, 2018

After a day of workshops and leadership discussions, the main conference presented 10 amazing speakers who shared their insights and gave the crowd new ideas to think about and new techniques to apply when they got home. Reimagine the Roadmap. This phenomenon typically gets attributed to bad roadmaps. Embrace the Awkward.

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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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