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37 Roadmap Tips to Align Stakeholders

ProductPlan

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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The ugly side of growth – how to scale your sales team sustainably

Intercom, Inc.

If you’re reading this, you might be familiar with Paul Graham’s famous article “ Startup=Growth ,” where he lays out the difference between traditional businesses and startups. Paul Graham puts it like this: “A startup is a company designed to grow fast”. Making sure culture scales as you grow. Are you prepared to invest?

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Become a Product Visionary with Alternative Futures Analysis

The Product Coalition

As an intelligence officer, I used this technique to help policymakers consider how situations would unfold over time so they could shape US national security policy. We’re in a highly competitive space that is ripe for disruption, with dozens of startups looking to take our place as the industry leader. Validate before acting.

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Managing high availability at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

This is why our customers – from small startups to massive, complex enterprises – put their trust in us. We educate our engineers in these policies and processes throughout their Intercom careers, from employee onboarding to performance reviews. Here’s how we do it. Availability is embedded our culture.

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Plan with Problems. Execute with Solutions.

Ask Benny

How to build a roadmap while staying agile and lean, and why so many product teams do agile wrong. Some of the characteristics of Agilefall include: Committed roadmaps initiated mostly by marketing, sales and executives. It should follow the lean startup methodology, even if some small things need to be adapted to corporate culture.

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ONE THING on a Dirty Word

Product Culture

In The Lean Startup , Eric Ries defines MVP as “that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.” For more information about our privacy practices please visit our Privacy Policy here. MVP (Minimum Viable Product) has become a dirty word.

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ONE THING on Stakeholder Alignment

Product Culture

I was going to single-handedly propel my 50-person startup to stardom and an IPO. For more information about our privacy practices please visit our Privacy Policy here. Register at Aligning Your Executive Team on Your Roadmap. What killed my brilliant product? I forgot about the rest of the company.

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