Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I review strategies and roadmaps. Then we put together a roadmap for change, and I check in with them along the way as they transform. Below is a brief overview of the framework that I use and a few signs of where you should start if you want to run this exercise yourself. I gather data through surveys about observations.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

You have to work with different stakeholders to define the product vision and strategy, define the set of features that the product will have and figure out a rollout plan. Define Product Vision and Strategy. I recommend you also add to this board the product vision as suggested by Roman Pitchler’s Product Vision Board.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 7, 2022

This vision holds true with our own organization as well. This year, we focus on the major priorities that help us achieve our vision while maintaining an easy-to-use, delightful, and flexible user experience. Through this effort, we created a very exciting and strategic annual roadmap. Why we built a customer-facing roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s Product Roadmap Building Time Again! The end of 2020 is nearing and it’s product roadmap building time again?—?at To make that process as worthwhile as possible, adhering to the following seven product roadmap first principles has proven beneficial in my experience. The classic quote from Lewis Carroll works here, too.)

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is Product Roadmap?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Directionality.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 20, 2020

Product Vision or Product Vision Statement is the long-term goal for a product includes the long-term mission and the motivation behind its creation, along with why it’s important. Product visions, ultimately, serve as the guideposts for the development of the products. What is a Product Vision?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Prioritization is mostly a rational exercise. I love the quote, ‘Be stubborn on vision, but flexible on details.’ Start with a clear vision of what you want your mobile customer experience to be, and make sure you gather feedback and measure how you’re doing. Be flexible about adjusting your roadmap as you learn.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

How does an opportunity solution tree connect to a product roadmap? How does an opportunity solution tree connect with a product vision? I could try to shoehorn these desires into needs—I need something to fill my time, I need nutrients, and I need to exercise. What other questions do you have about opportunity solution trees?

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Version 1 Products Need a Vision and Strategic Roadmap The easiest way to avoid the version 1 product dilemma is to describe what the product will ultimately help customers accomplish, why that outcome is valuable, and in pecking order, the biggest obstacles standing in the way of that outcome. It’s part of the job.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

Our vision is to bring a messenger-first, personal experience to all customer and business communication. Our principles help us make decisions about strategy, roadmaps, design, and more. All together, our mission, vision, and principles inform and guide our daily work – they’re part of what makes us different. Please apply ??.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

While I’d like to encourage you to involve development team members and key stakeholders in the visioning, strategising, and roadmapping work, you should lead these activities with the aim to maximise the value your product creates.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

It’ll describe some points divided as follows: Setting the product vision Getting people onboard (stakeholder management) to make it happen How to talk with other areas to get to this vision Why is setting a Product Vision important? Alice Product Manager”- Without Product Vision, any direction will be taken.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. Roadmaps are stories. “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company. Managing up.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Describing how things worked at this stage, Claire says, “We were facing the classic roadmaps decided by the founders, ‘fights’ to push users’ voices in the decisions, and some frustrations of projects that we worked on for several weeks but never ended up going live because of ‘bad’ prioritizations or just opinion changes.”

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When Teresa started working with the team at Airship, she led them through the “How to Make Toast” exercise to help clarify orchestration. Principal Engineer Todd Johnson walks the team through orchestration based on the results of the exercise. Widening the Scope from Solutions to Opportunities. Part 1: The Design Sprint.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. Teresa: One of the things I think I’ve written in the past is if your backlog or your roadmap or your idea log—whatever you’re going to call it—isn’t changing based on what you’re learning in discovery , there’s a disconnect there. What’s the vision? Do some tech debt.’

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ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

Product managers wear many hats, but one of the most uncomfortable ones they’re forced to occasionally don is that of the product vision “Gatekeeper.” The harder part is shooting things down that aren’t bad at face value, but don’t match up with the strategy, vision, and timeline of the overall product.

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ProductPlan

JULY 3, 2019

Creating a product roadmap containing both sets of plans might result in a document that’s super specific on the left while being fuzzy and amorphous on the right, which might be confusing to some viewers. Why you need a roadmap for short-term plans and a roadmap for long-term plans. Short-term roadmaps may not be guaranteed.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Relentless execution will ultimately determine whether you'll be able to make your product vision a reality. It's also a good time to ensure that the vision you've established for your product is still appropriate. Treat the annual planning process as a check-in to ensure your vision is still serving you well. Annual Planning.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2019

You should still follow the “ does this need to be a meeting ” exercise: Can this meeting be accomplished in an email? If you’ve gone through the exercise and decided it still merits a meeting, always set an agenda in advance so everyone comes prepared and knows what success looks like. Can this email be accomplished in a chat?

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the worst case, you have to go through a rewriting exercise where some parts or even the entire product are being redeveloped. If a refactoring release is the right approach for you, then your product roadmap should reflect this: It should show a release dedicated to future-proofing the product and making the necessary technical changes.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

These 8 dimensions will be pillars of driving the vision and business outcomes right after the launch. The important point is before jumping to create the strategy, I suggested spending a good time on a small exercise of understanding the Buyer persona to understand the buyer thinking, business goals, channels, influencers, approach etc.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. What is the vision for the future you want to create? What ground has been covered?

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ProductPlan

MAY 11, 2021

Not every product manager is lucky enough to work with a purpose-built roadmapping tool. But those that do seldom return to their old methods of managing the product roadmap. The great benefits outweigh other roadmapping options such as spreadsheets and presentations. Finding a new roadmapping tool that is easy to maintain. “It

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

In this post, I look at the value of asking great questions, cover a few strong sample questions and suggest some exercises to help you generate your own insightful questions. This is not a “one size fits all” exercise. Questions About the Product, Roadmap, and Industry. A Starter List of Solid Questions to Consider.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

I want to address such topics here and show how product roadmaps can help the team collaboratively gather the pieces of work and have a view of long term desired outcomes that afterwards are going to be broken down into sprints, not the other way round. It shows a long term planning for the specific product.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

To help hiring managers and recruiters, like myself, decide whether or not to interview you, it can be a great exercise to treat your resume like a professional product. As a hiring manager, I want to hire great storytellers, s o the team can work towards a unified vision. . Storytelling.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. How can you take responsibility for the vision and shape the future of your product when you don’t control strategy at the corporate level?”.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 3, 2017

A roadmap should—and this is going to sound banal—be pretty. Roadmaps are communication tools. We’ve said before that a roadmap isn’t just for you. Projecting an ugly, hard-to-read roadmap onto a boardroom wall will obscure your strategy, muddle your objective to achieve buy-in and bottleneck your execution.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2018

It is your role to focus on these changes just as much as the roadmaps of features you create. Create Relationships and a Shared Vision. It’s a useful exercise to sit down and work out where all your big influencers are on the grief curve. Accept That Everyone is Somewhere on the Grief Curve.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

A thorough persona workshop, including profile building and persona activating exercise, can take up to two days. Persona Activating Exercises. If time allows, I strongly recommend you do some persona activating exercises. The two most frequent exercises I use in my workshops are: Write lines. Prioritization.

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UserVoice

MAY 16, 2018

It activates actual feelings of empathy with the subjects of your story, instead of asking them to engage in a purely analytical exercise. Rallying the team around a cohesive vision is one of the unique benefits that a great story can offer. A common understanding of the product story allows a team to incubate a shared vision.

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Product Culture

JULY 6, 2022

When working on vision with stakeholders, I like the Cover Story exercise, which I outlined last week. A great exercise to follow the Cover Story is the Back-Plan. the future that will result from the roadmap) and then works gradually backward to the present. Subscribe to my weekly Nano-letter: Sign Up. First Name.

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