Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2019

What Product Roadmaps Are (in a Nutshell). To start with, let’s briefly recap what a product roadmap is. I view a roadmap as a high-level plan that states specific benefits a product should provide over a certain timeframe, which may range from six to 12 months. Ensure the Roadmap is Realistic. Why Dates Are Beneficial.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Before you order the roadmap items, double-check that you have a validated product strategy in place. If you haven’t nailed the answers, then do not continue the roadmapping effort. Otherwise, your roadmap may be built on false assumptions. Before You Start Prioritising …. Create a Compelling Narrative.

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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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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. Then invite the right people to a collaborative workshop, no matter if it takes place online or onsite. Lead by Example.

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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. As a rule of thumb, avoid meetings with more than ten attendees when you have to make high-impact decisions and/or rework the product strategy , product roadmap , or product backlog.

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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 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. Establish clear roles and responsibilities.

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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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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. Visioning Workshop Attendees. A solution-agnostic vision allows you to change the product strategy but keep your vision stable.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

This allows you to pivot, to change the product strategy and the product while staying grounded in your vision. Additionally, I like to capture the product vision together with the product strategy, as it’s done on my product vision board shown below. Do I need a Product Vision and a Product Strategy?

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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. This makes the product roadmap more susceptible to change and it increases the effort to update it.

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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

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. Here is why: When a head of product determines the product strategy on a regular basis, then this is likely to cause the following two issues.

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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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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

You have to work with different stakeholders to define the product vision and strategy, define the set of features that the product will have and figure out a rollout plan. Define Product Vision and Strategy. You should think about including designers, developers, and even potential users to this workshop to encourage collaboration.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Creating and validating a product strategy including market and user research.

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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. Step 1: Take Advantage of the Product’s User and Business Goals.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. Let me walk through the entire workshop in the phases with its results.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I look at four dimensions for robust Product Organizations: Product Organizational Design Product Strategy Product Operations Product Culture Inside each of these are a few capabilities that are then broken down further into sub-capabilities that help me pinpoint where the issues are. I review strategies 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. But this does not only reduce your ability to understand and connect with the individual.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Strategic Portfolio Roadmapping Workshop. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to develop a strategic portfolio roadmap that drives new growth by shifting your inside-out product vision to an outside-in customer vision. This workshop is ideal if…. This workshop is ideal if…. Course Takeaways.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

How do you collectively build your marketing persona through a workshop? Preparing for a Persona Workshop. Market research and having a customer proxy are prerequisites for a persona workshop. As well as product managers, stakeholders, marketing, sales, and dev representatives should attend a persona workshop.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Here’s the easiest way to marry company strategy and product strategy. The Downside of Multiple Product Strategies Here’s the first thing you SHOULD NOT DO. Don’t dispatch each product team to come up with a strategy that supports your company’s goals. They’re often conflated. Financial goals are just that. Impossible!

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. 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.

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UX Studio

AUGUST 14, 2017

A UX workshop can help you gather the team and brainstorm to make better decisions. In a UX workshop, we share research results with the participants and let them come up with their own conclusions. Get everybody on the same page with a UX workshop. Persona workshop. A canvas is often a good tool to run a UX workshop.

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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. My key learnings from the workshop were three things. Stephanie: Exactly.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Product marketing roadmaps aren’t a staple in most B2B organizations, but there are a host of reasons they should be. What is a Product Marketing Roadmap? It’s part strategy and part execution plan that outlines how product marketing and sales are going to collectively attack the market and meet their revenue goals in any given year.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

This helps the individuals embrace an agile mindset, take advantage of new techniques and tools—think of hypotheses-driven strategy validation, goal-oriented product roadmaps, and user stories—and effectively collaborate with the agile development teams. Strategy and leadership skills are nice-to-have but not mandatory.

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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

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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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? The post Carbon Neutral Roadmaps – Chris Adams on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Emily Cunningham. And some honorary Emilys: Maddie Stone.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The word roadmap usually conjures up thoughts of a product roadmap for people in a technology product company. For customer success managers though, the intent of a customer account roadmap, while similar, is bit more surgical than a product roadmap when it comes to defining success and leading customers to it.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This includes sprint planning , Daily Scrum , sprint review , and sprint retrospective , as well as product strategy and product roadmap workshops. Meetings : Prepare and facilitate meetings. Establish ground rules and ensure that everyone is heard, and that nobody dominates.

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