Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

5] What about Product Roadmap Generation? You might have noticed that I didnt list the creation of product roadmaps as an AI benefit, even though several tools offer it. There are two reasons for this: First, the AI-generated roadmaps I came across during my research were feature-based, which is a roadmapping approach I dont recommend.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. The team also agreed to initiate a weekly meeting to review and clarify requirements and to estimate the user stories. Long standups.

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Melissa Perri

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Product Roadmaps, in general, are confusing. Three years ago I wrote a blog post about Rethinking the Product Roadmap , in which I advocated for a focus on solving customer problems instead of listing out features with deadlines. But first, let’s talk about Roadmaps in general, and how they got us on the wrong track to begin with.

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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 As can be easily found in many organizations: Roadmaps trap you in outdated plans.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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When you become a manager, you need to be more deliberate about how you spend your time – after all, you will suddenly have way more tasks on your plate, including overseeing your reports, engaging with company strategy and helping craft the product roadmap. When should you write code? Code reviewing pull requests.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. The plan or roadmap is basically an ordered list of projects based on some notion of prioritization and sequence of delivery.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. Third, the team observes sustainable pace. But this would be wrong.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 5, 2020

One practice that both companies established was weekly executive-level metrics reviews. I've come to believe that establishing such a metrics review meeting is critical for developing an effective data-driven culture and I wanted to share some of the best practices around doing so. Why metrics reviews matter.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Right off the bat, Kristen acknowledges that the freemium model isn’t a universal cheat code for winning sales. The beauty of the freemium model in an enterprise setting is that the supplier due diligence process is already much further along. Listen to the full episode above or check out Kristen’s key takeaways below.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Table of Contents What Is Outsourced Software Product Development? What Is Outsourced Software Product Development?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. This, of course, assumes that you have a validated product strategy and a realistic product roadmap in place. Carefully select them by using the factors discussed above, and regularly review and adjust them.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Third, product goals help you connect the product roadmap and the product backlog , assuming that you use a goal-oriented plan like my GO product roadmap. Choose the next outcome on the roadmap as your product goal and copy it into the product backlog. Will any of them impact the product roadmap and require an update?

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. Since then we have grown to over 100 employees, we have more than 800 companies using our software, and we have expanded globally.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

It was first proposed after Benjamin Whorf, a fire safety inspector at the time, observed how oil workers treated empty oil barrels as less hazardous than full oil barrels, despite them being equally flammable due to the traces of oil remaining in them. We had terminology replacements drafted and people with an appetite to make changes.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Social listening tools : Software for monitoring online conversations, brand mentions, and trends.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. We’d made great code. We were testing our code. We were making great progress. Similar, right?

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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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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

They will challenge themselves and the team to work in smarter ways, ask more questions, and think about code improvement. Bugs come up, tests take a long time, code reviews are needed, merge conflicts occur, reviews from multiple shareholders might be required, etc.

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Product Talk

APRIL 11, 2018

” Writing code is a perfectly valid way to learn, if it’s the fastest way to learn. Writing code is a perfectly valid way to learn, if it’s the fastest way to learn. The key with discovery is speed of learning, not speed of writing code. If writing code helps us learn faster, by all means do it. Tweet This.

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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. Guest Post by: Inis Hormann (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz]. These are decision makers.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. You should be able to define the project scope and goals clearly by outlining the objectives, functionalities, and features of the software. You can create a Customer Journey Roadmap, Flowcharts, etc.

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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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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Zendesk is a service-first CRM company that builds support, sales, and customer engagement software designed to foster better customer relationships.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

In my view, he or she should have these main skills: manage the release process and roadmap prioritization, be able to suggest technical solutions during discussions with developers, and be knowledgeable in all the tools and terminology of the Agile process. The quality of the code suffered while features were delayed.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Whether a customer completes a purchase, leaves a review, or mentions your company socially, there is always an emotional state connected to their action. Customer reviews are a great way to track sentiment, and in-app ratings prompts can help inspire customers to leave their thoughts on your mobile experience. In-app ratings prompts.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

What strategies do you use to prioritize your product roadmap? We cannot be successful without somebody coding or building a product. You can have beautiful roadmap decks and beautiful PowerPoints. I’m not saying you need to code, but it’s really important from a product perspective that you understand technology.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This weight is mapped on a two-vector matrix to help us visualize and prioritize the story in our upcoming roadmap. a wonderful product roadmapping software tool my team uses in conjunction with JIRA. after settling on these criteria and I realized that the software only allows you to assign a single scorecard per product.

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Userpilot

MAY 7, 2024

Using no-code tools for product managers allows you to build, iterate, and deploy software products without any coding knowledge. Let’s review the top five no-code tools tailored for product teams, including their key features and usage in product management. But what is the best tech stack for product management?

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

My product leader coachees and I sometimes do calendar reviews.  We A Quick-and-Dirty Tabulation with Optional Color Coding Applying some Agile 101, it’s handy to understand a problem before we start fixing things.  Perhaps get to the end of the backlog, we’ll never be able to accept all incoming invitations.  It’s

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. 6:52] Did you find a gap in the roadmapping tools that were available before you started Gocious?

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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2024

You can access this information through the right customer lifecycle management software. To help you, we’ve listed the 10 best customer lifecycle management platforms in the market, including key features, user reviews, and pricing. The best customer lifecycle software in the market includes: Userpilot. Get a demo.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

An agile development team does a good job if the memebers can reliably meet the agreed goals and create software that offers a great user experience and exhibit the desired quality. Unlike traditional approaches to software development, Scrum does not offer the role of a project manager.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

These might be end-user-facing or internal ones like a software platform, for instance; they might directly generate revenue or support commercial offerings. Part of this process should be regular portfolio strategy reviews. 1] Product Portfolio, Product Family, and Product Line—What’s the Difference?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Additionally, I recommend running weekly review sessions to understand the progress of the discovery work and adapt it if necessary. This includes the following activities: Review the product performance using the appropriate key performance indicators. It is therefore important that you carry out continuous product discovery.

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