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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. Reinvention requires a product vision : a visual artifact that sets product direction over a longer term time horizon. Product vision is the critical bridge between strategy and execution. Unlock planning Facilitate multi-quarter roadmapping and resourcing.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

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. Then we put together a roadmap for change, and I check in with them along the way as they transform.

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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. I recommend you also add to this board the product vision as suggested by Roman Pitchler’s Product Vision Board.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. 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. What’s the vision? Stephanie: Exactly.

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Innovatemap

AUGUST 31, 2020

Some choices are long-standing and are reflected in the product vision, some play into the foundation of a product strategy, and many more reside in the plan to pull it off – the roadmap. Product vision depicts the future the product aims to create and is used to inspire teams and customers.

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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. 1 Set an Objective.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

I distilled the advice a few months ago in my book The Essentialist Product Manager and have recently been giving talks and workshops on the topic. This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ?

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

“What’s on our strategic roadmap?” What’s our product vision?” If you’re the head of products or strategy in a B2B organization, you’re constantly fielding the “product vision and strategic roadmap” questions. Register for our Strategic Portfolio Roadmapping Workshop in Atlanta, GA on March 28th, 2017.

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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 19, 2024

You use an outcome-based product roadmap and/or an opportunity solution tree , personas , user journey maps, and the product backlog to capture and validate your decisions and guide the product delivery effort. You employ the following artefacts: product vision and product strategy , business model and business case (if applicable), and KPIs.

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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….

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

A handy tool to capture your answers and describe the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in the picture below. You can download the template by clicking on the image and you can find more advice on how to use it in the article The Product Vision Board.

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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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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

APRIL 4, 2023

This includes securing the necessary training budget and selecting the right training courses, as well as creating a training-on-the-job program, attending product strategy workshops as a stakeholder , and acting as a sparring partner for strategy-related questions.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It’s a model of an iterative process that systematically links the product strategy with the product roadmap , the product backlog , the development work, and the key performance indicators (KPIs). With an actionable product roadmap in place, move on and stock your product backlog.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What’s the best way to run an opportunity solution tree workshop? How does an opportunity solution tree connect to a product roadmap? How does an opportunity solution tree connect with a product vision? Company factors: How does each opportunity support your company mission, vision, and strategic objectives?

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Working on a product without a decent product vision resembles going into the street with eyes closed. This article will show how a product vision should look, how to create it and communicate it to all stakeholders in play. What is Product Vision? Product vision imagines a product direction in the long-term.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

We already knew we could deliver expert guidance via a series of on-site workshops. Our virtual workshop series provides actionable strategies, tools, processes, and skills product leaders need to create innovations, adapt to market shifts, and anticipate what’s next. We deliver content via a series of virtual workshops.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing.

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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. Let me walk through the entire workshop in the phases with its results. These 8 dimensions will be pillars of driving the vision and business outcomes right after the launch. refer to image 4).

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Product Culture

MAY 7, 2020

I was supposed to give a Roadmaps Masterclass in person to the Business of Software conference in March. I switched it from a full day workshop to smaller chunks: 2 hours a day, over 4 consecutive days. So now I am trying it with a new audience: Product Roadmaps Masterclass: - Virtual , the Sequel.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 4, 2024

In this narrative, I’ll delve into the three key aspects that bridge these roles seamlessly: Customer Centricity, Design Thinking for Product Roadmapping, and Internalizing Empathy during Stakeholder Management. Embracing Design Thinking principles, we conducted workshops to map out the entire user journey and identify pain points.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

We covered everything you need to know, from technical skills and responsibilities to a step-by-step roadmap for getting started. Develop the product vision and expand on the strategy. Create a product roadmap so you can prioritize features more easily. Product vision benefits. Product roadmap example.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The first and possibly most powerful goal is the vision , which describes the ultimate reason for creating your product and the positive change it should bring about. As this example shows, the vision is an inspirational, visionary goal that cannot be measured. An example I like to use is healthy eating. Getting to Shared Goals.

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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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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

And that’s the ability to create extraordinary product visions that are forward thinking, innovative, and can solve your users’ biggest problems. And because of this it will be almost impossible to move up into leadership roles that require demonstrated experience developing powerful visions. Embrace it.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Pillars intend to provide context and a framework for product roadmap planning and decision-making , which also helps product managers thoroughly consider and evaluate the initiative, pushing them to be more research and data driven. Last year, our team at Bain Public had the opportunity to work as an exclusive Product Advisor for TrackTik.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 3, 2020

Join us on Thursday 12th March for a live Q&A with Bruce McCarthy : Prioritising your Roadmap. Bruce helps companies like Vistaprint, Localytics, Nuance, and Zipcar achieve their product visions. Bring your questions about product roadmap prioritisation at this Business of Software Q&A. Register for the Online Q&A.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2019

Start With A Vision. Successful products begin life with a spark of inspiration and a vision. Vision is, considered a non-negotiable for a CEO, and is often non-negotiable for a product manager. One reason is that not all product managers have the innate sense of a vision for the product.

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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. This includes the following ten capabilities: Formulating an inspiring vision for a product.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This is where product vision and a 1-3 year strategic roadmap become critical to your market strategy. With a market strategy, every product roadmap is analogous to a load-bearing wall in your house. Should each product have a long-term vision and plans with accompanying priorities? Absolutely, positively, 100%.

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Our Product Management workshops are designed and taught by professionals who have grappled with the same day-to-day challenges that attendees currently face. A companion, one-day Product Strategy & Roadmapping workshop addresses what is perhaps today’s top business concern: How can we innovate for competitive advantage?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Hard skills like market research or roadmapping are important, but they’re not enough. 17:30] Tell us about product vision. When you make a major change to an existing product, revisit the vision and adjust if necessary.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Use Collaborative Workshops to Review and Adapt the Strategy. Collaborative workshops with the key stakeholders and development team members are a great way to jointly review and adjust the product strategy. Having a dedicated facilitator allows you to fully contribute to the workshop.

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