Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. He’s held Head of Product roles at HSBC and Sainsbury’s, where he also directed their 100+-person product community.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Crafting a winning product strategy is crucial for SaaS success, and finding the right product strategy example can provide all the inspiration you need. This article provides concrete examples of different product strategies employed by SaaS companies. Book a demo to learn more.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 13, 2022

In Part 1 , I said that customers need a different kind of roadmap than teams do. But, depending on where your product is in the market, your customers might want or need different information. One thing to remember: you might not need a customer-facing roadmap at all if you release often enough. Let's start there.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Jeff helps organizations and executives build the cultures that build better products. 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. Todd Lombardo, Head of Product & Experience.

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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. Sustainable – the footprint of the product can’t grow exponentially to accommodate every new feature request, which jeopardizes all of the above. . Solving customer problems.

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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. They can deliver to the plan.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2022

Thankfully, the company I worked for hired consultants to assist. Closing the strategy to execution gap between the company’s objectives, product development, and delivery. This project let me see firsthand how a company’s strategy turns into what product teams execute and how one company objective led to multiple team goals.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework. Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. He’s now a consultant, speaker and writer. Three Types of Launch.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Companies had to shift their product strategy. They had to shift their product strategy. Thus, she began delegating her consulting-focused client interactions to the rest of the team. “My It was a clear decision to say hey, during this time, I won’t be a consultant. Investing in the Roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. This strategic roadmap basically keeps high-level business outcomes.

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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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Mind the Product

AUGUST 9, 2017

While the Amazon Echo Show is an impressive addition to the repertoire of voice and video monitoring systems in this growing market, it’s not the product features that are drawing attention. Rather, it is Amazon’s smart home product strategy. Have an integration strategy. Effective Smart Home Product Delivery.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 9, 2020

Moving away from roadmaps. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Listen to learn more about: * Making predictions. Using data sensibly.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

She’s since written two great articles on the subject (Tools to Help Product Managers Think Strategically and Commercially Part 1 and Part 2 ), and she joins us on the podcast to dive further into the topic. In this episode, sponsored by Amplitude , listen to learn about: * The State of Product presentation. Quote of the Episode.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Jenna Gaudio is the Vice President of Product Management at Vydia, the award-winning tech company empowering content creators and their teams. In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication. The Best Product Consultant.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

Product Manager’s Control of Employee Expectations. As a product manager, implementing an effective product strategy should remain a priority. In addition, product managers—who understand the metrics used to define and gauge success —can identify the gaps themselves and add value where they see opportunity.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

You can start upping your engagement game with: A Customer Advisory Board A customer advisory board is an especially good idea for B2B product companies. These customers are then consulted, with the intent to validate the product strategy and long-term roadmap.

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Tyner Blain

APRIL 7, 2015

Last month, Mike Smart of Egress Solutions and I gave a webinar for Pragmatic Marketing on product roadmapping when working in agile environments. One attendee asked, “ Please explain how a prioritized list of features is not a roadmap? Described something (bad) which was not a roadmap. Called it a roadmap, then.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Know the existing roadmap is optimistic, and already exhausts all engineering & design bandwidth.   Sales/Solutions asks for more frequent updates and more visibility into the roadmap. Sales/Solutions still doesn’t see their latest batch of demands showing up in the roadmap. Or work through the backlog.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 12, 2017

Product management teams often ask themselves if third-party integration is right for their software product roadmap. The thinking is that you should integrate with products such as Salesforce and Slack, because you never would want to try to build those sorts of products by yourselves. Janna Bastow.

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Product Management University

MARCH 18, 2019

Analyzes the performance of the product portfolio in each target market segment to identify opportunities and trends that impact product strategy, marketing initiatives and sales priorities. Creates prioritized product plans and backlogs with scope that mirrors customer business goals and operational priorities.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Consider These Product “Owner” Teams Effective product owners need to collaborate with several kinds of teams: They work with “their” feature/product team, to write stories and create good backlogs for the near-term work. See the roadmap series. So the product owner works alone. They can't.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

With 72% of executives experiencing competitive pressure to transform , according to Capgemini Consulting, there is huge interest in how to accomplish such wide-ranging change. The Benefits of Product Management. The pressure to take on a digital transformation is both internal and external. Firstly, there are competitive pressures.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Sure, salespeople need some level of product knowledge, but in most cases, they just need to know which solutions are most applicable to each situation that’s critical to the buyer’s success and why. Solution consultants can handle the product details.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2020

but we had no previous training on strategy. Furthermore, there is no clear path to learn product strategy and no agreed-upon “go-to” resource to start developing this muscle. Understanding how to differentiate based on particular attributes to better serve particular segments is nowadays a common practice in product strategy.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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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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ProductPlan

AUGUST 12, 2024

As a proven solution for more than a decade, ProductPlan has helped 1000s of companies build more than 700,000 roadmaps and plan more 8,000,000 initiatives. Book a Consultation Enterprise Growth Platform Capabilities Unlimited Roadmaps Easily collaborate, share, and transfer between users. A straightforward solution.

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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. It provides a glimpse into the future of your product and aligns everyone around the same goals. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And your roadmap should change with them. Who Should See the Roadmap?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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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. Get your workshop tickets.

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Actuation Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Moving Your Product Strategy Forward. When you begin developing your product roadmap, you start to envision how your product strategy will actually be accomplished. These set of activities will typically cover multiple product development cycles and define high-level deliverables.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 12, 2022

Slack’s product strategy put it on a trajectory for success. Let’s explore the company’s product strategy to see what makes it different. Product strategy: slip into the customers’ shoes. The pandemic’s influence on product strategy. Slack response to the pandemic.

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