The Product Guy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

So, your boss’s boss walks into your office and changes your roadmap…. The only real solution was to rebuild everything from scratch; requiring phasing out the old platform and creating a new one and managing multiple products and roadmaps. No, this is not a bad joke. As a product manager you prep, plan and execute. Better Decisions.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Over the years I’ve worked alongside a number of enterprise product managers in many companies. 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.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

And the challenge is a lot harder in an enterprise context, where the buyer and the user aren’t necessarily one and the same person. Many businesses struggle to strike a balance between freemium’s light-touch customer engagement with the more involved enterprise sales process. Meeting the needs of an enterprise buyer.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2019

Not surprisingly, when you’re looking for customer validation for B2B products, there simply aren’t as many datapoints to draw from in enterprise product management as there are for consumer products. Aspiring enterprise product managers often tell me that collecting a robust customer sample is difficult. Know Your Roadmap.

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 21, 2020

When it comes to product management roles in startups vs. large enterprises, there tend to be a few key differences. Working with smaller teams and lacking the abundance of resources that a larger enterprise might have pushes Product Managers that work in startups to take on a more generalist role. Product Management at a Startup .

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Decision-making process for PMs: No common process, standardized No journey from OKRs to problems and solutions No articulation of the roadmap with uncertainty Not ahead of the needs Problems for making streamlined decisions, for articulating decisions. Mental models for decisions not clear. Team dynamics and structure. Better Decisions.

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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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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. Krishna believes in “Mobile and Social eating the world” and helps enterprise customers to make use of technology to increase their productivity.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Drawing from his 20+ years of technology experience and extensive research, Nishant shared insights about how these activities vary across different organizational contexts – from startups to enterprises, B2B to B2C, and Agile to Waterfall environments.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2020

I won’t spend too long here describing thematic roadmaps – Chris Butler and Jared Spool have done a great job of explaining Bruce McCarthy’s idea – but I think it’s worth talking about why it worked with my stakeholders. I also re-framed the alignment meetings as “Roadmap” meetings, not “Prioritisation” meetings.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

1password.com) Strikingly- Public Forum, Idea Forum , where customers request and vote on features Public Roadmap (ie Slack , bitsian ) . Are things that we are learning finding their way into the roadmap? How do you internally communicate customer requests/feedback vs the roadmap? Are customers being engaged directly?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Explore digital transformation strategies for enterprises Have you wondered why digital transformation strategies are a necessity? Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. Create a detailed roadmap with defined phases, timelines, resource allocation, and budget estimates.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. These are the exact questions you need to ask when creating your roadmap. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. He recently sold his third start-up, Vizibility, an enterprise-class digital business card solution. View the live stream….

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 4, 2017

More About The Product Mentor The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Management Mentors and Mentees around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…. Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Defining target customer base helps with creating the roadmap. However, target customer base and roadmap should be continuously reviewed and redefined as the features are added and product expands. Customer segmentation is a powerful tool for product managers and marketers to draw an accurate picture of the customers. Better Decisions.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. He recently sold his third start-up, Vizibility, an enterprise-class digital business card solution. View the live stream….

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

The path and the steps to reach the destination is defined through a product roadmap. Hence roadmapping is a crucial exercise which can make or break your product. In my opinion, apart from a bad culture, a bad roadmap can also have a devastating impact on your organizational strategy. Product Roadmap. Data vs Intuition.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

To keep track of what has been validated for delivery and development, a roadmap is your best tool. Product managers are often tasked with improving an existing roadmap — but sometimes you will need to create one from scratch. As you make changes to your roadmap, you will need to get feedback from stakeholders for your product.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

I like to take this idea further, derive several product goals from the product strategy for the next 12 months, and capture them on a product roadmap. If you have a product roadmap, then ensure that it implements the overall product strategy. Do not add too much detail to your product roadmap , though, to keep it a high-level plan.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 13, 2019

You won’t be there for the hundreds of decisions they’ll need to make as they execute on the roadmap, so the more context they have, the better their decisions will be. They understand the technology the best, and need to as close as possible to the problem. Communicate Communicate Communicate Communicate. More About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. While salary increase is a complex subject with variables outside of our control, I believe that having a clear product roadmap and strategy is every Product Manager’s responsibility. Research article.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 4, 2021

Insights on roadmaps, metrics, OKRs, and more for product managers. Joining us for this episode is a CPO who shares some of the tools he uses, including roadmaps, metrics, and OKRs. He knows a lot about tools as he is the CPO for Betterworks, a provider of enterprise OKR and performance management software. What is the solution?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 30, 2018

Because market awareness drives roadmaps that have the highest likelihood of “changing the game”. You’ll learn things that change your roadmaps for the better. You’ll learn things that confirm your roadmap is right. You’ll learn things that have no impact on your roadmap. More About The Product Mentor. Better Decisions.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2021

When I talk about roadmaps with younger product leaders, I often hear things like “we don’t need one, we are agile” or “why build a roadmap when things will surely change”. The roadmap sets the strategic direction of the company, and when built right it also doesn’t have to change that frequently, despite your agility.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

These are the business strategy , which is also referred to as corporate strategy , the product portfolio strategy , the technology strategy, and the product strategy , as well as the product roadmap , the technology roadmap, and the product backlog. The latter, in turn, drives the product roadmap, which directs the product backlog.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 21, 2019

A product manager manages the product roadmap/product lifecycle. If your product modification starts to take more market share, start thinking about adding it to the product roadmap as a standard offering. What is a secret menu? Keep evolving and developing your secret menu items and focus on being more customer & product-centric.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

Do you have a Product Roadmap? As a product manager the management of your product roadmap is the same as the management of yourself and your career. Without having a product roadmap, it is difficult to know what stage you are in your product lifecycle. What is your product vision? What are your goals? Better Decisions.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2019

Some organizations lean toward execution, with a focus on product artifacts like PRDs, user stories, and roadmaps. How far ahead is your roadmap determined? A roadmap determined too far ahead of time infers a rigid product organization, with little opportunity to incorporate learning and experimentation. Better Decisions.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Once companies collect that VoC data, they can use those insights to inform their mobile strategy, loyalty programs, marketing campaigns, product roadmap, and more. It also helps you understand what areas of your product roadmap to prioritize. Prioritize and validate your product roadmaps and experiential investments.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 5, 2022

As the head of product, you play a key part in developing the people on your team, creating an environment that helps them succeed, and improving the effectiveness of the product management function in the enterprise. [2]. Don’t forget to capture the learning and development measure, for example, on a learning roadmap.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication. Harpal is a seasoned Product leader with 15+ year track record of delivering digital products within consumer and enterprise space. The Best Product Visionary. Harpal Singh.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. He recently sold his third start-up, Vizibility, an enterprise-class digital business card solution. View the live stream….

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

Keeping the end goal in mind, developing roadmap maps out how to get from current stage to the end goal and required resources and support. . The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Management Mentors and Mentees around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals….

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 15, 2020

From the very beginning of COVID-19, Dunkin’ has been a fantastic case study of how a large enterprise brand can quickly adapt to external variables and changing customer behavior. How do you pivot your roadmap when there are major changes in the world such as this? What is your team doing to focus on reopening efforts?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. He recently sold his third start-up, Vizibility, an enterprise-class digital business card solution. View the live stream….

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