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

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Before you order the roadmap items, double-check that you have a validated product strategy in place. You should be able to confidently say why users would want to use your product and why it is worthwhile for your company to invest in it. If you haven’t nailed the answers, then do not continue the roadmapping effort.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 No Strategy The first and most crucial mistake is to have no product strategy at all. When that’s the case, a product is usually progressed based on the features requested by the users and stakeholders. The strategy is therefore either too big or too narrow.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Product strategy workshops are facilitated sessions where key stakeholders come together to define the vision, goals, and roadmap for a product. The workshops help align the team on strategic…

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Weak Development Team Product Research Workshop Customer Experience 73

Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

To build such a stakeholder community, try the following techniques, which I discuss in more detail in my book How to Lead in Product Management : Bring people together and have joint workshops instead of holding separate conversations with the individual stakeholders, see also the section below.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

If that’s not the case, then it will be difficult to encourage the individuals to agree to more specific goals and to follow a product strategy and a product roadmap that are based on the vision. Encourage the participants to describe the purpose that they associate with the product.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

Not tied to a solution : Despite its name, I recommend keeping the product vision free from assumptions about the actual product or solution. This allows you to pivot, to change the product strategy and the product while staying grounded in your vision. Who Owns the Product Vision?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. Second, it overlaps with the product backlog, especially when detailed features are used. Outcome-based).

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, ensure that the individual product people are sufficiently empowered to succeed in their roles and establish a product-led way of working. What Happens When the Head of Product Determines the Product Strategy? As you might have noticed, the list above does not mention determining the product strategy.

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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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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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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. I then do various interviews with executives all the way to Product Management team members and surrounding functions. I review strategies and roadmaps. This is one of the biggest issues I see when helping Product Management organizations.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you thought there were a million ways to define product management, product strategy might have it beat by a longshot. Just think about how many ways product strategy is defined within your own organization. It’s the number one thing that makes product strategy both challenging and frustrating at the same time.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. It is the guiding principle for OKRs and roadmaps.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. Instead, he requests product roadmap changes by talking directly to you. At the same time, be frank.

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UX Studio

AUGUST 14, 2017

A UX workshop can help you gather the team and brainstorm to make better decisions. Ensure everybody is on the same page by making them more involved in the product development process with these tools. In a UX workshop, we share research results with the participants and let them come up with their own conclusions. Preparation.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

My first MVP had little resemblance with the finished product: I used my product strategy and roadmap workshop as the initial minimum viable product. This helped me better understand which strategy and roadmap-related challenges product managers commonly experience and which advice is helpful for them.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Here’s the easiest way to marry company strategy and product strategy. – Grow into adjacent markets with existing products. The Downside of Multiple Product Strategies Here’s the first thing you SHOULD NOT DO. They’re often conflated. Financial goals are just that. – Retain our best employees.

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Strategy Product Strategy Workshop Customer Experience 130

Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Organisational change and empowerment : Work with senior management, HR, and other business groups to implement the necessary organisational changes required to fully empower product people and leverage agile practises. Having an effective Scrum Master allows you to focus on your job—to maximise the value the product create.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Emily Tulloh – and the overview on Workshop on Service design in a climate emergency – What do digital services in a world of net-zero look like? Use the #podcast channel in the Mind the Product Slack community. Emily Cunningham. Emily Atkin (featured on the What Next podcast on 15 Jan 2020 ). Suggest a guest to us here.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We’re thrilled to announce the first of our amazing line-up of speakers and announce all our deep-dive workshops, connecting international and regional thought leaders with the vibrant product and UX community across AsiaPac. Sherif thinks building simple products is hard and so is writing a simple, short bio.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Product Management University

JULY 15, 2024

STEP 3 Assuming product management uses its collective market knowledge to craft portfolio/product strategies, roadmaps, plans, priorities, backlogs, etc., The skids are greased for stakeholder alignment and it will happen more naturally than it would otherwise.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Each release goal should be a step towards meeting the user and business goals, and it should describe the specific benefits a major release or product version will provide, for example, acquire users , increase engagement , generate revenue , or remove technical debt to future-proof the product.

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Weak Development Team Technical Review User Testing Workshop 158

Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

While the three roles exercise different leadership, the people involved must effectively collaborate to achieve product success and align product strategy, roadmap, backlog, design and technology, and process decisions—without losing focus of their respective core responsibility. [1]. Lead the Product.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Companies with an existing product management group usually require up-skilling and retraining their product people, as well as adjusting roles and responsibilities and career plans. These range from establishing a product culture to empowering the product people, giving the necessary decision-making authority.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

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. You had five product teams , a user researcher who was new to the role.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

So either we work together to understand your objectives, call them goals if you’d like, and the outcome you are looking for from the product, or we will end the discussion, and you won’t get a committed set of work on the roadmap.” We went away from detailed, long-term, feature-committed roadmaps. I explained this many times.

Roadmap 121

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

Weak Development Team 156

Weak Development Team Product Research Workshop Customer Experience 156

Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

You might talk to the sales rep, for example, and ask them about the viability of using existing sales channels or get their feedback on a draft product roadmap. You’ll then repeat the process with the other stakeholders until you have acquired enough information or managed to create a roadmap everybody accepts.

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Weak Development Team Feedback Software Software Review Product Research 166

Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs.

Feedback Software 156

Feedback Software Data Visualization Analytic Tools Research Software 156

Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

Not tied to a solution : Despite its name, I recommend keeping the product vision free from assumptions about the actual product or solution. This allows you to pivot, to change the product strategy and the product while staying grounded in your vision. Who Owns the Product Vision?

Vision 156

Vision Customer Experience User Testing Product Strategy 156