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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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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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. Our best-in-class enterprise offering delivers a holistic and strategic product lifecycle planning solution—efficiently executed with an unparalleled customer experience !

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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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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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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 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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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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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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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Elevating product strategy through advanced competitive intelligence Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I interview Jay Nakagawa, Director of Competitive Intelligence at Dell Technologies and a 25-year product management veteran.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 4, 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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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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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 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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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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Bain Public

JULY 14, 2021

Bain Public acted as an Exclusive Product Advisor to OnDeck Canada in defining their roadmap. Bain Public helped establish OnDeck’s product culture and prepared their product practice through product management training and by working on their roadmap while providing analysis, data and UX support.

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Many product managers come in fully intending to transform the business, but too often they struggle to properly engage with other teams and to evangelize product management as a function, which in turn causes innovation to come to a standstill. Lifting & shifting: the common pitfall of product teams. About Tanya Cordrey.

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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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Mironov Consulting

JULY 15, 2024

  A lot of “I’m experiencing the same C-level challenges that made my last 2 or 3 VPPM/CPO jobs so taxing: demands for certainty, mortgaging the future for current quarter revenue, lack of trust, and scant interest in how we make products.”   Roadmaps and commitments blown up for enticing opportunities. 

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build successful products! Roadmapping software visualizes and plans product development over time, facilitating coordination and alignment across teams.

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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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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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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

After all, product managers have different duties and tasks depending on their organization and industry. That said, product managers have the same responsibilities. They work with typical product management software and also manage the product roadmap as well as the product team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With everything you have to do every day, it is so easy to neglect strategy. But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. There is so much work to do, you don’t even have time to create a roadmap. Slowly, both the product and the roadmap reflect only what the customers are asking for.

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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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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 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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UX Studio: Product Management

MAY 13, 2024

The design system expert could audit the product, develop the design system, consult with developers about its implementation, and train the designers on the new system. Even if you have researchers on your team, consulting with experts can streamline the research process and ensure top-notch data governance.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

Vice President of Product Vinay commented that the traditional path of a product manager is to raise the ranks internally: from associate product manager position to senior product manager then to director of product, then to VP of product.

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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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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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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Making the case for cybersecurity on your roadmap. Making Room for Cybersecurity on the Roadmap. What’s just the right amount of security initiatives to work into a roadmap that keeps user data safe and secure without completely derailing product growth and improvements? Next Steps for Your Cybersecurity Roadmap.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 18, 2023

After the exercise, regardless of exactly what shape your roadmap is in, everyone should have a better idea of what success looks like and how to get there together. Connect to the company vision Annual planning provides an opportunity to take a beat and ensure that each product and the company are still moving in the same direction.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Said another way, this week’s new “must do” items look like a year’s worth of additions to the roadmap.  ” “Roadmap items X and Y specifically benefit your functional group, and were the ones that your directors prioritized as their top two.  roadmap updates from Product. 

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