Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Information Should a Product Strategy Provide? I like to think of the product strategy as a high-level plan that helps you realise your vision and that answers the following four questions: Who is the product for? How Does the Strategy Relate to the Vision and Roadmap?

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

An inspiring vision creates a meaningful purpose for everyone involved in making the product a success including the stakeholders and development team members. If the vision resonates with you, then this will help you do a great job, especially when the going gets tough. The vision pulls you.”. A shared vision unites people.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Is a Product Portfolio Strategy and Why Does It Matter? A product portfolio strategy is a high-level plan that helps you maximise the value a group of products creates. These guide and align the strategies of the portfolio members , as Figure 1 illustrates.

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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

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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash There is a misconception that building a roadmap will define a product’s future. But a roadmap doesn’t create a clear view of the future. Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. So why build a roadmap at all? Select a reasonable time range for the roadmap.

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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. As there is no strategy, objectively assessing the impact of the requests is virtually impossible. The strategy is therefore either too big or too narrow.

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bpma ProductHub

AUGUST 24, 2019

by Paul Ressler – Everything is progressing well with your SaaS product; you have your product vision and you have product market fit. One important next step is a product roadmap. Product roadmaps, done well, can be a great tool to help advance… What are the next steps to achieve success for your SaaS product?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 19, 2023

Are product roadmaps sales tools? Think of a product roadmap as a sales pitch for your product. Thinking of your roadmap this way is helpful when you want to get support from stakeholders and gauge interest from customers — important people who care about your product’s future. Absolutely! Build excitement.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Overview of the Learning Roadmap. Like a modern product roadmap, a learning roadmap states the specific outcomes or benefits you’d like to achieve to become a more competent product person, and it captures them in form of learning goals. To make these ideas more concrete, let’s look at a sample learning roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2021

You have a strategy AND a roadmap, they’re two different things. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Traditionally, strategy and execution are often viewed as separate, sequential pieces of work that are carried out by different people. For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. Enter the Cycle. I call these outcomes product goals.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

You’ve got a clear vision for the future, and it looks bright! Part one of this article taught you how to align a roadmap with aspirational business goals. This step gets into what people think of when they ask for a roadmap. This step may be the biggest challenge to a realistic roadmap. What are you going to work on?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 14, 2022

For an organization to follow through and turn that idea into a viable product, the team needs both a product vision and a product strategy. This article will discuss why the best products require both vision and strategy and their codependent nature. Product vision. Product vision examples.

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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. Here we go.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 7, 2022

At ProductPlan, we are revolutionizing how a company delivers products to market by elevating product organizations to the heart of strategy and execution. This vision holds true with our own organization as well. Through this effort, we created a very exciting and strategic annual roadmap. Keep reading to learn more!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

Golden rules for roadmap management. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’. It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Today we wrap up the three part series on creating your strategy stack. Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 2, we continued the organizational journey by defining the Strategy and Goals.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 4, 2019

The map below shows the strategy tools I find helpful to make effective product strategy decisions. As the Strategy Map above shows, you should be aware of the overall business and product portfolio strategy in order to make the right strategic product decisions, as these provide the necessary context.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Think of your roadmaps, backlogs and sprints as a very specific set of turn-by-turn directions. For the most part, your teams can execute those directions very well. There’s only one problem, and it’s a big one. Where are you supposed to end up? What’s the destination? How will you know when you’ve arrived? Is it OK to just keep on driving?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Crafting a winning product strategy is crucial for SaaS success, and finding the right product strategy example can provide all the inspiration you need. This article provides concrete examples of different product strategies employed by SaaS companies. There are 11 main product strategy examples in SaaS today.

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Gocious Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Your product roadmap is an essential part of the manufacturing process. It guides production while defining the product vision from conception to development. The only way to manage all these moving pieces is to have a roadmap and a strategy to manage it. Product manufacturing can be a complex process.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Vital to delivering successful products at Clickatell , an effective product roadmap can quell the confusion and missteps that often derail well-meaning product delivery organizations. Roadmaps provide the required context to understand how individual initiatives combine to meet strategic objectives. Product storyline.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Product leader Aatir Abdul Rauf outlines questions product managers should ask when crafting a product strategy. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Product strategy continues to be a misunderstood concept and energizes many conversations and debates on LinkedIn. It’s not a roadmap. It’s not a vision.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2022

Have you ever stared at a roadmap and wondered why? Why is the roadmap organized the way it is? Roadmaps should not focus on features, no disrespect. Features are important, but they need to come together in the roadmap to show a clear product strategy. So you say product strategy, what does that mean?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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UserVoice

AUGUST 16, 2016

While you might “own” the product, your product’s vision should be coming from the top of the house. Sales, operations, technology… all of it should be working toward a common vision. So, if the vision isn’t the responsibility of the product team, what is? Let’s use a hypothetical example — a space travel.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Product strategies help you design and grow your products. Let’s get right to it.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 3, 2021

Roadmaps don’t need to be complex, nor should you need a PhD to create one. Photo by Matt Duncan on Unsplash Ahh the dreaded word roadmap… The mere mention of a roadmap can divide the room, and send Product Managers into a world of panic. Let’s face it, roadmaps have a bad reputation. the simple roadmap by David Webb 1.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2023

This book can help you understand key concepts dealing with strategy, its foundation, and key environmental factors at play that influence its shaping. I read “Good Strategy, Bad Strategy” book three times. In doing so I hoped to understand how to approach the product strategy for the product I am working on.

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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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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

It forced me to question a belief, as a product leader, I treated as an absolute — that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Then I thought further; maybe scenarios exist where roadmaps are optional. Roadmaps are not always needed. Roadmaps early on tend to box you in.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Explore digital transformation strategies for enterprises Have you wondered why digital transformation strategies are a necessity? This comprehensive guide empowers you to harness the power of digital transformation strategies, propelling your business toward a thriving future. What are digital transformation strategies?

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svpg

JULY 15, 2016

In recent articles on keys to product success and the alternative to roadmaps I have highlighted that if you want the benefits of product team empowerment and autonomy, then you need to provide each team with the necessary context in which to make good decisions. Product Vision. Product Strategy.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In this ProductTank Buenos Aires talk, Stephen Culligan, Head of Product at Prommt and former Product Manager at Pivotal Labs discusses how we can build better roadmaps by focusing on the bigger picture and pivoting our attention to strategy and vision. [.]

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. So as he leaned across the table and looked me in the eyes, he demanded, “Explain why I need a product roadmap.” Why not, indeed?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Directionality.

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