Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

That leads to large and unchangeable roadmaps and a lot of emphasis on predictability. This means you can create a product roadmap and a backlog. If you can't write that down, you can't build a roadmap or a backlog. See Leadership Tip# 10: Commit Coherent & Meaningful Work to a Team.). Your ideal users.).

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 12, 2024

As a trusted solution for over a decade, ProductPlan has empowered thousands of companies to build more than 700,000 roadmaps and plan over 8,000,000 initiatives. Unlimited Roadmaps Easily collaborate, share, and transfer between users. Customizable Views Create views and filters of roadmaps for specific audiences.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. Do regular research, attend trade shows and conferences, and consult journals, magazines, and user forums, for example. As Superman puts it, “You are much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.”.

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Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2019

At last week’s #mtpcon San Francisco Product Leadership Forum, senior product professionals got together to discuss the current hot topics of career paths, talent management, and psychological safety. Invite Sales to a regular Product counsel where the roadmap, requests, feedback and tradeoffs are discussed. Resource Recommendations.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. The post Carbon Neutral Roadmaps – Chris Adams on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Examples of good corporate sustainability initiatives from Stripe and Google. Talk to us.

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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

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. 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.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2021

The managers want rigid roadmaps. However, the managers create a roadmap similar to the image above. That roadmap has large features and long “deadlines.” The managers created a Gantt Chart as a picture, not a roadmap. The managers might even think this is roadmap reflects an agile approach.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers), I talk with lots of senior individual contributors about the risks and challenges of moving “up the ladder” into product leadership roles. So I have a strong sense of what product managers want. Swing a bigger stick.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2023

Actively manage the aging of the project portfolio and the roadmaps. This is part of the intermittent series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip 21: How to Know if People Are Working Hard appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Eliminate all the work people are not actively working on.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 10, 2020

What : “Moving Up Into Product Leadership” remote workshop. Prioritizing work (roadmaps) when internal stakeholders are not in agreement. The leadership career funnel and ways to signal your interest in “moving up” Who should attend? Where : online (link provided to registered attendees). Register here.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Partner with sales, business, and strategy leadership to set and attain targets that affect Uber’s bottom-line.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Partner with sales, business, and strategy leadership to set and attain targets that affect Uber’s bottom-line.

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Gainsight

APRIL 26, 2019

In the “final frontier” there isn’t a roadmap to follow. You’ll hear all about these trends beyond just the leadership question at Pulse, but I wanted to give you a sneak peek with this post. We’ll be talking a lot about customer success leadership at Pulse 2019. Captain Picard was different.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The focus on profitability really fortifies the importance of collaborative decision-making between product managers and the leadership team. As the legendary statistician and management consultant, W. Companies need to create sustainable growth by innovating through product features. We also recommend always having three key results!

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The focus on profitability really fortifies the importance of collaborative decision making between product managers and the leadership team. As legendary statistician and management consultant W. Companies need to create sustainable growth by innovating through product features. Final Thoughts.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. Product Leadership Is a Business Role I make a distinction between product management and product leadership. Product management is the name of the profession and also a description of what some levels do.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. This is our framework that we base all our lessons on: Your Product Mission Your Product Blueprint Your Roadmap Pillars. Course Outline.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

He works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management, and human-centred design. She also spent three years as VP Product at HotelTonight and has held product leadership roles at Prezi, Snagajob, and Eclipsys. Product Leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2019

Usable – you can’t build features with no cohesive vision that need layers of solution consultants to walk every new customer through them. “If your product team isn’t taking roadmap input from your sales team, you’re not listening to the potential market” Second, sales and product need a way to collaborate on the product roadmap.

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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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Mironov Consulting

JULY 15, 2024

  Roadmaps and commitments blown up for enticing opportunities.  We should be normalizing career breaks, shifting back into IC consulting roles (temporarily or permanently), and introspection about what fits each of us. If we love it, then leadership or getting things done or organizational dynamics.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Quote of the Episode. Quote of the Episode.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

that’s not me, I always talk to leadership about my plans and their buy-in is crucial to anything I do as a product manager. Leadership are the ones who can make or break your initiatives internally, they have power. And so we inform them, consult them, involve them. Is this on the roadmap? So what can you do?

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2020

What : “Moving Up Into Product Leadership” remote workshop. Prioritizing work (roadmaps) when internal stakeholders are not in agreement. The leadership career funnel and ways to signal your interest in “moving up” Who should attend? Hosted by INDUSTRY. Where : online (was planned for a NYC venue).

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

Part 1 of this series also discussed the foundation you need for these tools to work, which is the right leadership.) These customers are then consulted, with the intent to validate the product strategy and long-term roadmap. Here, the company identifies its top 10–20 highest paying customers critical to the business.

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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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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. Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

You also need to define your product roadmap in line with your goals and establish a clear go-to-market strategy for the product. It’s essentially a roadmap that guides the development process to ensure alignment with the overall business strategy. They’re often written within set time frames (month, quarter, year, etc.).

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Shift your product enhancement process from feature priorities to outcome priorities and watch everyone fall in love with your roadmaps! Transform product marketing from a tactical sales support function to a strategic leadership function. The value of your solutions will skyrocket and execution will improve exponentially.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

It puts the onus on them to consult with colleagues to see where they might need some extra help. Setting the Stage for Successful Context-Based Leadership. As any veteran product leader knows, there’s no better tool to facilitate that than the product roadmap. This mindset can also inform your hiring strategies as well.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Truly getting there requires a fundamental shift in how we think about leadership, accountability, and the very nature of how work gets done. Another way to explore it is to check if a strategic roadmap for that domain makes sense. The details matter, and truly getting to empowered teams requires much more than an updated org chart.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Rich Mironov, CEO/Founder, Mironov Consulting. Your product roadmap is not a model, an algorithm or an artifact, it is an ongoing political process that requires careful management of the relevant stakeholders. All I want is for people to love me and love my roadmap and love my product that I put so much of my time into.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

Pendo’s chief product officer shares his take on product management leadership. “If Pendo offers a platform of tools that allows product managers to make their products better —whether they are at the beginning of their product roadmap deciding what to build or want to validate the direction for how their product evolves.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

What do Ted Lasso and my mom have to do with leadership? As such, I (and millions of other humans) find his leadership style to be beyond inspiring. Shortly after that dinner, Gainsight held a leadership offsite at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay (the kind of location decision you make before you learn about financial discipline).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

Random Feature Roadmap for One Program. At the top of this post, I added an image of a random, focus-less roadmap. Yes, a real program inspired me to create this roadmap. Effective project and program managers can make sure someone creates a roadmap to focus the team for now and to offer a look ahead. Not for the team.

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