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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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I find that a product walkthrough is often needed when you are trying to make the case to leadership to green-light a new venture based on the strength of your vision for it. Strategy: Product/Market Fit Hypotheses. A compelling strategy delineates exactly how your product will dominate its market.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

A solid product strategy takes time to build. Here is the method I use for creating a product strategy that makes sense. When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Roadmaps require massive prioritization. It’s nice, but there is a much higher level of prioritization that needs to happen and would impact your roadmap much more. The same happens with your roadmap. Your roadmap must serve the company’s (business) goals , and therefore that’s where you need to start. Photo by Anete L?si?a

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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 Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. You add features, you replace salespeople, but it doesn’t help.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Product strategies help you design and grow your products.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. Photo by Tomas Sobek on Unsplash Nobody likes crises.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes.

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bpma ProductHub

JUNE 12, 2017

By Garmia Painuly – No matter what the product, our goal as product managers is to deliver value to customers. How do we quantify and measure the value, and incorporate the findings into our product plans and roadmaps? She is also involved with user experience design and product marketing.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. It can also get leadership buy-in to where a team is heading overall.”–

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

So you have done your planning and now want to communicate your roadmap to management or to the team. Here is a template that will help you not only communicate your roadmap better but also build it the right way from the get-go. Photo by Tamil Vanan on Pexels You might have heard that I’m writing a book on product leadership.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

As the VP of Product Management at HiveMQ, Yury oversees HiveMQ product discovery and delivery by the Product & Engineering team. In his role on the leadership team, he is responsible for shaping and executing their product strategy. Yury’s next step?

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This led him to research and identify 19 core activities specific to product management, with clear separation from product marketing, sales, and go-to-market functions. Product Roadmapping Once product positioning is established, product managers move into the more action-oriented activity of roadmapping.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

When a company is first starting out, one of its main goals is to find the right product-market fit. In my last piece, I discussed many of the tools that product leaders have for building a customer-obsessed culture. These customers are then consulted, with the intent to validate the product strategy and long-term roadmap.

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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. They can lead other, more junior product managers.

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svpg

JULY 15, 2016

In recent articles on keys to product success and the alternative to roadmaps I have highlighted that if you want the benefits of product team empowerment and autonomy, then you need to provide each team with the necessary context in which to make good decisions. Product Vision. Product Strategy.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

What does a product marketing manager (PMM) do? This is the question on the lips of many marketing professionals browsing through opportunities at tech companies. Chances are you already know their broad responsibility is to develop and implement a marketing strategy roadmap for a specific product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I’ve been a product leader for over a decade. I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. Why share now?

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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. Job titles generally reflect that distinction but not always.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2018

It is meant for certain use-cases and audiences, largely those who are not a key part of the decision-making process, but who are affected by it and by leadership, who don’t have the time to dive deep into the how and why of products and features. Before We Dive In SHOULD THE PRODUCT ROADMAP HAVE RELEASE DATES?

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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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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better. It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. That means doing your homework regarding market intelligence, product-market fit, technical feasibility, and the like.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

ProductPlan and Chameleon’s training empowers product leaders to prioritize features and develop a more strategic product roadmap. Stanford's webinar offers aspiring product managers practical strategies to enter the field, featuring insights from Silicon Valley executives.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Most companies don’t have a clear picture of their roadmap. Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. It breaks product innovation in 3 steps -- Product Mission, Product Blueprint and Roadmap Pillars.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

In the product-led organization of 2023, product teams are gaining authority over previously independent teams and even some historically in a leadership role over product. In the Empowered Product Team model, product leadership sets the overall direction and prioritizes the problems to be solved.

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Userpilot

JUNE 28, 2024

Embarking on a career as a product marketing manager involves a combination of education, skills development, and practical experience. This guide will provide you with a comprehensive overview of the path to becoming a successful product marketing manager. Product marketing manager. Let’s dive in!

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Previously, Ivy has held executive positions spanning from head of product design and development to CMO and presidencies with several companies, including Calvin Klein, Swatch, Coach, Mattel, Art.com, Bausch & Lomb, and Gap. Joe Leech, Product Strategy Consultant. Leadership Forum. Apply for your leadership ticket.

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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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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories. Support from the senior leadership team also shot up. It’s not that different from the current design.

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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. Andre Piazza.

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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. They can lead other, more junior product managers.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But as the initial story above shows, working with remote teams is not always conducive to achieving product success: When you work on a product that has not yet reached product-market fit or when you are planning to extend the life cycle of an existing offering, you should at least initially collocate the development team and key stakeholders.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But as the initial story above shows, working with remote teams is not always conducive to achieving product success: When you work on a product that has not yet reached product-market fit or when you are planning to extend the life cycle of an existing offering, you should at least initially collocate the development team and key stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When we were working on building their strategic roadmap, he asked me a great question: “why do I need to start with the strategy, and specifically when presenting to management? It was management who set the strategy anyway, so they already know it”. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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