Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2022

In Part 1 , I said that product roadmaps are not like car roadmaps. But even car roadmaps showed places of interest—options—for the driver and passengers. Too often, I see very predictable roadmaps for managers. Predictability vs. Option Discussion for Roadmaps. More on that later in this post.).

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 28, 2019

I suspect the first question is how much change do you need in your product, not how good your information is, or how much planning you need. How Long Does Your Information Have Value? Instead, I recommend you ask for other information: the Cost of Delay for a given feature or feature set and the team's current cycle time.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2020

At Bain Public , we help build roadmaps and innovative products for early-stage companies. As a product management consultant, he acts as a coach and a mentor to his clients, providing them with frameworks that guide them toward making the best product decisions. If the answer is yes, you’re in the right place. How, you ask?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

That's one of the reasons they create huge backlogs and long roadmaps. Yet, even those backlogs and roadmaps don't offer certainty. However, I don't do long consulting contracts—by design. But most of my business focuses on coaching, workshops, or consulting. Remember I said I don't take long consulting engagements?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Think of Google Search, which addresses the challenge of finding information online, and Flickr, which allows people to share photos. Additionally, the team should have ownership of the plans that contain the goals: the product strategy and the product roadmap , as shown in Figure 2 above. [4]

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. A global consulting firm built for the 2020s, Kin + Carta helps make the journey to becoming a digital business as profitable, tangible and sustainable as possible.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2017

Therein lies the opportunity for a product management consultant. Consulting on a part-time and freelance basis may be a viable option for you, depending on where you are in your career. Even if you’re only thinking about it as a temporary move, it’s important to think about the goals you may have as a consultant.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. After learning a whole lot about how to do software requirements management, project management, enterprise architecture, architecting software solutions, information security policies. Product Management Journey?—?Developer

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The team needed to understand a competitor’s capacity for manufacturing vaccines but couldn’t access internal information. In what ways could your team better utilize publicly available information sources to predict competitor moves? Their solution?

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During the in person workshop, Paul will lead a group of early stage startup founders through the process of revisiting and assembling their value proposition, establishing their product mission and strategies, and completing their product roadmap. They will then have access to even more guidance for the next 2 years!

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a consultant, I create many kinds of information products: both writing and speaking. Worse, it's actually easier to experiment with software than it is with information products. The image to the left, from Successful Independent Consulting , shows the interaction between my writing and speaking.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This is necessary, for example, to establish an effective product management function and to secure the necessary level of empowerment for the product people as well as to resolve cross-departmental issues—think of sales reps who routinely promise features to customers without first consulting the appropriate product managers. See Peter G.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When a company hires a fancy management consulting firm to help them “optimize” operations, one of the first things they’ll do is document how things are currently being done. It’s useful in the product development context many of us live and breathe every day, including product roadmapping. Gap analysis.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 3, 2018

One person gave me a new saying about metrics (at the end, during the Q&A): Are you data-driven or data-informed? If you want the ability to replan you use data to inform your next steps. Note: data-informed does not mean you don’t create broad-stroke plans, such as roadmaps and gross estimates.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As legendary statistician and management consultant W. Pillars intend to provide context and a framework for product roadmap planning and decision-making , which also helps product managers thoroughly consider and evaluate the initiative, pushing them to be more research and data driven. Final Thoughts.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 16, 2023

” So I asked them to gather this information, too: Add up all the feature sets underway. ” The number of quarters they already planned in their roadmaps. Their roadmaps tended to be 12-18 months in duration. Here's what else they decided: Toss all those long roadmaps. That was a great decision.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. But it is greatly diminished when folks are betting on unrealistic results.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As the legendary statistician and management consultant, W. Pillars intend to provide context and a framework for product roadmap planning and decision-making , which also helps product managers thoroughly consider and evaluate the initiative, pushing them to be more research and data-driven. Final Thoughts.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 20, 2019

Although product managers may not regularly attend management meetings, they will frequently have opportunities to demonstrate features, share customer learnings, and present roadmaps to the higher ups in the company. A product roadmap presentation should be optimized for whomever will be attending it. Know your audience.

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 26, 2021

And it’s the key to making informed decisions when thinking about digital transformation. There are two primary ways for the voice of the customer to positively influence your business plan: Let feedback drive your product roadmap: Use customer feedback to continually improve your product.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Product Roadmaps are some of the most important product tools. Learn how to create your product roadmap in 2019, including 5 templates you can get inspiration from. Roadmapping is one of the unsung heroes in the product arena. Perfect your roadmapping skills by learning from the examples below! Useful, right?

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Arkenea

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Key Takeaways: An accessible and inclusive healthcare website allows users from every background to access the same kind of information. An accessible and inclusive healthcare website allows users from every background to access the same kind of information. The information should be provided in a layman’s language.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Your roadmap is one of the most important things you’ll produce as a SaaS company. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And then there’s perhaps the biggest question of all: “How do we decide what makes it on to our roadmap?” And your roadmap should change with them. They change a lot.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 2, 2024

That deliverable will allow us to replan based on our current information.” The more smaller deliverables, the more information we have to inform our next set of plans. Long roadmaps create a false sense of long-term thinking. (That's the only reason to define a strategy.) ” Strategy is not sufficient.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Roadmap platforms Aha! & Visit The Product Experience homepage for more information and more episodes! Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. * Lifting the Feature Factory Boulder , on Medium. & ProdPad. Know the perfect guest?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

And so we inform them, consult them, involve them. The ones who sell the product over and over again, the ones who handle escalations or talk about the roadmap to the customers. Yes, you talked to their managers and yes, their managers probably trickled down the information to them. Is this on the roadmap?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Before joining Google, Neha worked as a Management Consultant at Essex Product Consulting, where she helped organizations build products. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap? Finally we write the roadmap for year one.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Roadmapping is one of the unsung heroes in the product arena. The principles of creating a Product Roadmap First of all: as PMs, you are assumed to hold an ability to improvise. That said, a Product Roadmap is a good tool to actually anticipate mistakes. Finally, Levels of Effort should be consulted with engineers.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2023

But instead of placating the managers and trying to estimate, consider starting with this question: How do you plan to use this information? ” A Customer Wants to Know When Under normal circumstances, when customers want to know when for various backlog items, I choose which roadmap to use. “I just want to know. .”

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I wrote it because I'm concerned about what I see in too many supposedly agile teams: Crazy-long backlogs and roadmaps. Worse, even though I wrote all the lifecycle posts , too few people took advantage of the information there. Choose When to Experiment and When to Deliver appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Hutwork

MAY 23, 2019

Product roadmap planning has become a huge success in getting products to market efficiently. Often companies find themselves asking, why roadmap? This brings us to our top 12 reasons for product roadmap planning and why it’s essential. 2—The Why and the What of Product Roadmap Planning. Where are the benefits?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Tweet This Marina Vytovtova works as a product consultant and is looking for a new full-time role. It really helped me visualize the information of the discovery space,” says Marina. This helps ensure stakeholders don’t get overwhelmed with too much information and focuses their attention on the most relevant part of the tree.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Visit The Product Experience homepage for more information and more episodes! Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups. In this episode, sponsored by Amplitude , listen to learn about: * The State of Product presentation. Strategic alignment for teams. Quote of the Episode.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2022

Thankfully, the company I worked for hired consultants to assist. The consultants could easily hand down the individual product goals, and they spent time helping the team understand why and how they played a critical role. Ultimately, the consulting team created a memorable story that was clear and motivational?—?turning

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 15, 2024

  Roadmaps and commitments blown up for enticing opportunities.  ”) rather than a process filter (“If Sales would submit detailed specs well ahead of customer decision dates, we could…”) If you’re considering a different company, do lots of unofficial/informal culture checks. 

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 28, 2023

In reality, the question of “How do you want to use this information” is my single best tip. See Large Features and Long Deadlines Mean You Have a Gantt Chart, Not a Roadmap. Instead, use the brainstorm ideas in Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 1, Think in Feature Sets.

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