The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Lead with Influence : Align teams, shape strategy, and drive organizational vision. Pro Tip from Aarti Iyengar : Focus on outcome-driven roadmap planning. Foster a Product-First Culture : Build collaboration, transparency, and a shared vision from day one.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

You’re Stuckand It’s Because You’re Playing by the Rules In product management, youve been told to follow the rules: stick to the roadmap, build consensus, and hit your OKRs. As can be easily found in many organizations: Roadmaps trap you in outdated plans. Rule 1: Trust the Roadmap Roadmaps are your comfort zone.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

In our latest Productside webinar, Becoming an Effective Product Management Leader , Principal Consultants Roger Snyder and Kenny Kranseler delivered a no-nonsense roadmap for new leaders who want to nail their first 90 days (and beyond) and get the tools on how to become a product management leadereffectively. The principle stays the same.

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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

Meet Brian Fugere , a pro whos navigated the high-stakes terrain of M&A more times than he can count. From surfacing hidden landmines during due diligence to bringing entire product orgs under one cohesive vision, Brians got the battle scarsand the winsto prove it. and how quickly you can merge them with your current methods.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Question: How do you respond to requests for date-based roadmaps? To provide a bit more context, one CDH community member was being drawn into theoretical debates about date-based roadmaps. First, I’d like to address some of the shortcomings of date-based roadmaps. At best, creating a date-based roadmap is a waste of time.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

But instead of telling a clear, compelling story, they send out a spec or share a roadmap deckand hope it gets read. Everyones Pulling in a Different Direction When theres no shared vision, product, engineering, and business teams fill in the blanks differently. Tom put it this way: A storyboard is worth a thousand meetings.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] You Can’t See Further than the Next Three Months A product roadmap should be a realistic forecast that states the specific value a product is likely to offer in the next 12 months. [1] If you can’t see further than the next three months, then do not use a product roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Some view it as the product vision , others equate it to the product’s value proposition. This helps me choose the right product goals and it ensures that meeting a product goal is a step towards creating the desired value for the users and the business, as figure 1 shows. Product Goals and the Product Roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 10, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Traditional vs Outcome-based Roadmaps Before I share the four steps, let me briefly describe the main differences between a traditional, feature- and an outcome-based product roadmap. A traditional roadmap is essentially a list of features, which are mapped onto a timeline.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

How does it differ from a product roadmap and how do the two plans relate? And what’s their relationship to the product vision and the product backlog? At the heart of the model in figure 1 are four artefacts: the product vision, the product strategy, the product roadmap, and the product backlog.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 31, 2018

Do you ever feel like breaking up with your roadmap? Todd Lombardo takes on a topic that is emotional to most of us as product managers – the product roadmap. The roadmap gets a lot of blame for this culture. What a Roadmap Isn’t. A roadmap can be many things. A roadmap is not a release plan.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it. Smaller strategy updates and product roadmapping decisions, however, are not as critical. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is the Product Vision? The product vision describes the ultimate purpose of a product, the positive change it will bring about. As the product vision, I could then choose “help people eat healthily” or just “healthy eating.” What Makes a Good Product Vision? Who Owns the Product Vision?

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Photo by AP Vibes Outcome-based roadmaps are considered the best practice; however, they are not as common as you would expect. We created a beautiful vision and design that laid the foundation for anything that would be needed in the future until the existing system could be fully replaced. The concept has been around for a while now.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To successfully manage your product and maximise value delivery, you should use additional artefacts including the following five: An inspiring vision that describes the ultimate reason for offering the product; A validated product strategy that captures your approach to realise the vision and make the product successful.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

A tool like my product vision board helps you capture and validate your product strategy. 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.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 15, 2019

After many years of controlling our own development roadmap, we felt it would be difficult to give up the flexibility of owning our own platform. We wanted to control our own plans, and not be reliant on an external partner to meet our requirements. Existing Team vs new Team? We wanted to be part of an open source community.

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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.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It’s a model of an iterative process that systematically links the product strategy with the product roadmap , the product backlog , the development work, and the key performance indicators (KPIs). With an actionable product roadmap in place, move on and stock your product backlog.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Identify needs that are not yet met and use this to inform your product roadmap. Get validation of your priorities by asking members how they feel about your roadmap and it’s prioritization. Align your vision and product strategy with the strategic direction of your customers business. New Idea Generation. Not locked in.

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2019

Be aware that overall, the one-on-one meetings can take some time depending on the number of people you want/need to meet, so plan those accordingly. For the first meeting that can be about almost anything, the agenda is optional. If you have the opportunity to visit/meet your customers do it! Play with the product!

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

A group of passionate users in our social media and forum communities drives our roadmap and and helps us understand the problems we need to solve. We’re pushing the boundaries of computer vision and machine learning. I meet with those volunteers at least monthly to listen to their opinions and make them feel like Wyze employees.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 20, 2020

” When it appeared we were getting stuck trying to create a plan for the next big thing, he would tell me to schedule a meeting to make a plan for the plan — a meeting to discuss what would need to go into a plan since we don’t yet really know what the plan should be. To Describe, plan the roadmap for the release.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 4, 2021

Insights on roadmaps, metrics, OKRs, and more for product managers. Chief Product Officers (CPOs) have many responsibilities, such as mentoring product managers, defining product strategy, leveraging cross-functional resources, developing products to meet an expected schedule, and more. 5:42] How do you use roadmaps?

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? However, I don’t necessarily agree with the idea that its user feedback “versus” the founder’s vision.

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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. Siloed Teams : Teams work in isolation rather than collaboratively, resulting in inefficiencies and a lack of unified vision or approach. I gather data through surveys about observations.

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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? Follow these steps to create an opportunity solution tree: Make sure that you meet the prerequisites. meeting the needs of both employers and job seekers on a job board).

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle. This may help help to reduce your 20+ person meetings into small group meetings of under 10 people only.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Hard skills like market research or roadmapping are important, but they’re not enough. 17:30] Tell us about product vision. When you make a major change to an existing product, revisit the vision and adjust if necessary.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy. [1] To get started, create your own Portfolio Vision Board by downloading and adapting the Product Vision Board or by recreating it in your favourite tool.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Measuring how well your product is doing at meeting its user, business, and product goals is great.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2023

How Product Roadmaps Bridge the Gap and Fuel Success. “A A product roadmap is a tool for communication and alignment. Central to this journey is the product roadmap. The why is what unites not just the team, but the whole company, around a shared vision. The Journey of a Product: The Roadmap Queue the time travel music.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

You can implement a similar approach in any area where you provide consistent feedback, such as PRDs, presentations, or roadmaps. However, the reality sets in when they find themselves in meetings with actual CEOs, who have strong opinions and an intimate knowledge of the business.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Typically, there are two big phases in bringing a product from vision to launch: planning and execution. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap? We tap into all of that to write the vision document. [8:27] At what cadence do you do that?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, ensure that the individual’s role and responsibilities are clear; help the person grow as a product professional, be it by coaching and mentoring them or by encouraging them to attend training courses; offer clear and helpful feedback and hold them accountable for meeting agreed goals. Second, develop the product management team.

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