Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

By having a deep understanding of the landscape within their remit, product managers can provide a strategic product roadmap, outlining opportunities for improvement (problems to solve) along with suggested changes to the product or service. This document is a prototype for your strategy, and details “what” and “why”.

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. A good strategy consists of a diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent actions. Why is product strategy so hard? “What is product strategy?”

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Userpilot

JULY 4, 2022

Why should you adopt a customer-led growth strategy in your SaaS? Is it possible to increase user engagement by focusing on a customer-led growth strategy and hit the metrics you are hoping for? In this article, we’ll be discussing the customer-led growth strategy, why it is so effective, and how you can implement it in SaaS companies.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

“If you’re a growth stage company then you have to be able to make strategy decisions very rapidly. They’re providing information that serves as an input to strategy decisions, but they’re not involved in execution. If you don’t have the data then you can’t make secure decisions and alter course.”

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

Product ops’ Primary Responsibilities: Engineering, design, product team communication / announcements / reinforcing process, policies, and practices. I send out the kick-off email, I follow up with product managers on roadmap discussions, and ensure they are delivering the artifacts our product leaders expect.

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Product Culture

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Great roadmaps are the result of hard decisions, of deciding what you will do and what you will NOT do. By making hard choices public, you make your strategy really clear. And clear strategy helps the entire organization execution in alignment. Roadmaps: the Key to Great Product Decisions and How to Create Your Best Roadmap!

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

An effective product expansion strategy is the fuel that propels a SaaS business forward. We also explore the different types of expansion strategies and the steps you can follow to create a working plan for your business. There are four types of Product Market Expansion strategies.

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Product Culture

JANUARY 31, 2024

So you have created the most beautiful roadmap ever. For more information about our privacy practices please visit our Privacy Policy here. See Chapter 9 of my book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched. It will drive your company into the stratosphere. It will make your customers cry with happiness. Remember to breathe. Any other tips?

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Userpilot

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the latest buzzwords in the SaaS circles is the ‘Product-led growth’ strategy. Several SaaS experts are raving about this ‘go-to-strategy’ that promises to boost customer engagement and satisfaction by making the ‘product’ the hero of everything the organization does.

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Product Culture

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

A good roadmap is a statement of strategy that helps stakeholders understand the destination and the obstacles along the way. For more information about our privacy practices please visit our Privacy Policy here. See Chapter 5, Roadmaps, in Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders. How is your GPS?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 3, 2021

Your executive team’s desired roadmap. Or better yet, all roadmaps. His last performance review was all about this roadmap. Basecamp’s recent company policy change is a perfect example. Twitch could use this inversion to implement a strategy around creator partnerships. It’s literally in the damn name!

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Product Culture

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

I really enjoyed the fireside chat “OKRs vs. Roadmaps Deathmatch” I did a few weeks back with my friend Janna Bastow, CEO of ProdPad. Our Privacy Policy. *. For more information about our privacy practices please visit our Privacy Policy here. Here is my book on roadmaps and my article on OKRs for Product Teams.

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Product Culture

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

How do you please different stakeholders with your roadmap deck? Please don't write totally different roadmaps. Rather, build the specifics each group wants to see on top of the common foundation of your vision, strategy, and themes. Our Privacy Policy. *. See Chapter 9 of my book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

To remain competitive, organizations must be able to adopt digital transformation strategies that are agile, scalable, secure, and cost-effective. Cultural Transformation Cultural transformation is the process of changing organizational culture to better align with the organization’s strategy, mission, and values.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Imagine that a major prospect for our investment banking application needs a custom connector for their legacy stock market analysis app: their trading strategy team uses an old database with obsolete formats for trade type, date/time, currency symbol, etc.  Their market strategy team realizes they need one more field mapped. 

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

With this knowledge in hand, teams can more effectively identify and exploit opportunities and adopt risk strategies. 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. Validate before acting.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Christian Miccio (VP Product at First Data) and Kana Butkovic (Programme Director at First Data) set out a detailed strategy for launching physical products on an international scale. How do you manage return policies within a delivery supply chain that stretches across several countries? What is your commercialisation strategy?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

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. We also need a roadmap to focus the team and create a NorthStar to guide us.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

I’d love to understand a little bit about how their input informs your process and your product strategy. These are all variables that are important to decide where to take the product or the strategy. In terms of strategy, we try to marry the objectives towards the division or the product-level OKR. How do you start?

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ProductPlan

MAY 30, 2019

Product Strategy. / Made famous by Amazon, the working backwards strategy is a favorite among many product teams and thought leaders. For example, 90% of Amazon Web Services roadmap is driven by broad customer requests , indicating advance knowledge of a clear demand. Privacy Policy. ROADMAP TEMPLATES Product Roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

We educate our engineers in these policies and processes throughout their Intercom careers, from employee onboarding to performance reviews. Part of the program strategy aims to identify, prioritize, and mitigate risks that would threaten our availability. We manage risk and respond instantly when things go wrong.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2019

Product Strategy. / Before you can take action on any of these, you need to determine your product’s big-picture strategy and objectives. You might start by building your product roadmap , a great way to help your team identify the product’s strategic vision. For a product manager, this blueprint should be a product roadmap.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

You also want to communicate not only your tactical requirements but the strategy and vision for the product. The improvement came in their process of articulating strategy to their product team. Now let me give you a few tips for incorporating this strategy into your process. Sharing a clear, up-to-date roadmap.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Know the existing roadmap is optimistic, and already exhausts all engineering & design bandwidth.    Our first healthcare customer will have a stack of new-to-us pharma regulatory and audit requirements; HR policies in Europe are very different from the US.  So Or work through the backlog.

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Product Culture

JANUARY 3, 2024

Many organizations struggle to separate the roadmap from the delivery of features. Often this is accompanied by a lack of vision and strategy. How do you ensure that your roadmap isn’t just a dressed up project plan? For more information about our privacy practices please visit our Privacy Policy here. If you missed it.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 23, 2019

Roadmaps. / The product team can demonstrate how the product strategy is getting you there. Other than executive leadership, no other part of the company is as focused on big-picture strategy like the product team. It’s essential to constantly remind your team about your strategy. Try it Free. Enterprise. Integrations.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

We need to shift between priorities, sometimes “interfering” with our roadmaps and plans, but the ability to adapt to this constant stream of changes is essential. In the light of new evidence, market opportunities, crisis, or strategy changes, we need to be flexible and adapt ourselves and our Product to these demands.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 17, 2018

Product managers are playing both strategy and tactics. Strategically, you set the long-term goals that inform the roadmap. Tactically, you want to ensure your Agile team is following the roadmap and delivers as expected. Sounds like a plan, except that you have to re-plan on an ongoing basis.

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Product Culture

JUNE 25, 2024

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 25, 2019

Whether it’s revenue or personnel, rapid expansion brings a host of obstacles that could counterintuitively sink your business if you don’t have a strategy for handling it gracefully. If selling to SMBs requires one roadmap and enterprises demand another, it may stretch your resources too thin. Are you prepared to invest?

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Product Culture

OCTOBER 18, 2023

While you want to make critical decisions on product strategy, direction, and priorities, you cannot do so in a vacuum. For more information about our privacy practices please visit our Privacy Policy here. You need to reach out to other departments and get everyone on the same page. We will treat your information with respect.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

If you’d like to delve more deeply into crisis leadership strategies, I recommend this article from ProductPlan’s Chief Executive Brad Wills: A CEO’s Tips for Resilient Leadership During Challenging Times. Product teams will re-examine and update their strategies. They’ll be taking an objective look at their pre-COVID strategies.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2018

And that they have a roadmap for 2 years, so their customers can’t help them right now. Who comes up with the strategy? As well as the strategy being created internally, I found some great research into team feedback by Troy Stevenson who is the former VP of customer loyalty at eBay. In your SaaS business, who has the ideas?

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Product Culture

JUNE 15, 2022

And yet product has to get buy-in from these other departments for strategy and roadmap to be successful. Our Privacy Policy. *. For more information about our privacy practices please visit our Privacy Policy here. One tip: meet one-on-one with a draft of your strategy and roadmap for advice and honesty.

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Product Culture

MARCH 9, 2022

A roadmap presentation can leave stakeholders anxious. Our Privacy Policy. *. For more information about our privacy practices please visit our Privacy Policy here. At the same time, you probably didn’t deliver precisely what was on your roadmap the last time you spoke to these people. Any tricks up your roadmap sleeve?

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Product Culture

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

If you make a habit of communicating roadmap updates regularly, you are training your stakeholders to expect adjustments. The folks at Camunda publish an updated roadmap every quarter. A good roadmap evolves to adapt to the changing market environment. Our Privacy Policy. *. Subscribe to my weekly Nano-letter: Sign Up.

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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. We also need a roadmap to focus the team and create a NorthStar to guide us.

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