Roadmaps for New Products
When you build a new product, it’s highly unlikely that you’re going to include every feature right out of the gate. Creating a product roadmap helps you to think through what your product will be capable of out of the gate. It also is a great tool to communicate your plans to your stakeholders, and perhaps even your customers.
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How to establish an initial product roadmap in 10 steps. Organizations that are product-led use a planned, rolling, multi-year roadmap to guide product teams through their development of products. Paul Burke explains how companies use this accepted enterprise roadmap, to plan for these potential products and uses collaborative methodologies to validate solutions from three critical perspectives: desirability, viability, feasibility.
(via Paul Burke)
Building a product roadmap for a new startup. As part of the application process for an accelerator he was speaking with, Shanif Dhanani had to build out a product roadmap for three quarters. He initially viewed that task with some trepidation, but having gone through it, he found it a valuable exercise and shared his lessons learned from building a roadmap for a startup.
(via Shanif Dhanani - Connect Your Business Data To ChatGPT )
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Chat GPT Goes to School
In the latest episode of Rocketship.FM, "ChatGPT goes to school," we delved into the fascinating realm of AI's role in schools – which included stories of students using ChatGPT and other similar platforms to cheat, and the unintended chaos that unfolded when a Texas A&M-Commerce professor tried to use ChatGPT to catch them.
AI has become a double-edged sword, offering amazing learning opportunities while also providing a tempting path to use it in ways that would be considered plagiarism. Yes, some crafty students have turned to AI platforms, like ChatGPT, to generate essays and find answers to exams. It's a challenge that forces us to rethink the integrity of our education systems.
But we also talked through a tale from Texas A&M-Commerce that complicates things for educators. A well-meaning professor decided to deploy ChatGPT to sniff out those cunning cheaters. However, things take a wild turn when ChatGPT mischievously claims responsibility for all the student essays, leaving the professor utterly bewildered. He went on to fail the entire class and give them an opportunity to get their grade back. One problem – ChatGPT was actually lying. It said it wrote all of the student essays, but it actually didn’t. Yikes.
But as we discussed in the episode, there is a brighter side. This technology has the potential to transform the way we learn and teach. Imagine having a personal tutor for every student. AI can analyze individual strengths and weaknesses, customizing the learning experience to suit each student's needs. It's like having a magical mentor who tailors the curriculum, paces the lessons, and ensures every student reaches their full potential. And same goes for the time-strapped teachers and professors. Essentially, AI can act as a virtual TA to help them along the way.
You’ll have to listen to the entire episode to hear more about the stories, but one thing is for sure – ChatGPT and other AI platforms are here to say (even in the classroom) whether we like it or not. So it’s time that we all learn to live with it.
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Manage your delivery work inside Notion. Notion, the connected workspace tool looks to expand their appeal in the enterprise market by introducing a new feature set called Projects. The new functionality gives your team to track the status and timelines of your tasks and the details behind them. If you’re tired of using multiple different systems to track your work, Notion Projects may help you consolidate your focus.
Google Docs offers a safer alternative to search/replace. If you regularly use Google Docs to create new documents from existing templates, the new variable chips feature may be of interest. This new feature allows you to use the power of variables from programming (or algebra) to make creating new versions of a document faster. Insert the variable chips in your document to represent a specific piece of information (phone number, address, recipient name). Then when you update the value of the variable chip, it updates all the places in your document.
MoviePass is back! Apparently the team behind MoviePass has tweaked their business model so that it’s still a good deal for customers, and will actually generate margins for the company. The company is offering a new subscription service and pricing model in the US. There are now four tiers with prices ranging from $10 to $40. The tiers use a new credit system that incorporates a variable cost model. If that won’t get you back to theaters, we’re not sure what will.
Apple releases the Vision Pro headset at its Worldwide Developers Conference. The company’s first major new product in a decade allows you to experience virtual reality and digital apps, movies, personal photos or any content available on a computer monitor overlaid on the real world. Given the less than stellar introduction of VR headsets from other tech companies, the Vision Pro may be the test of virtual reality and augmented reality’s staying power. We may find out soon if AR/VR is a flash in the plan or if you’ll need to adopt a whole new set of user experience challenges.
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How to build an IoT product roadmap. Let’s face it. Building an IoT product roadmap is hard — much harder than building roadmaps for “normal” technology products. That’s because IoT products are complex systems. To create a working solution, all layers of the IoT Technology Stack — device hardware, device software, communications, cloud platform, and cloud applications — need to work together. It’s like having to manage five products in one, and your roadmap needs to be the glue that keeps all your stakeholders aligned with your vision. Daniel Elizalde explains how to build an IoT product roadmap by balancing a high-level view of the end-to-end product with more detailed views at each layer of the IoT Technology Stack.
(via Daniel Elizalde)
6 things to avoid when building your product roadmap. The folks at ProdPad love to talk about good practices of building and using product roadmaps. Yet they’ve found that sometimes the best way to learn to do something is to be clear on things you should not do. With that in mind, here are 6 of the most common faux pas that smart, well-intentioned product managers and larger product teams make with their roadmaps.
(via ProdPad)
Product manager interview: Create a product roadmap. One of the core responsibilities as a product manager is to determine the long-term strategy for their product. To do so, product managers create product roadmaps to orient themselves and their teams on what new initiatives to tackle and within what general sequence and timeframe. During product manager interviews, many companies seek to understand your ability to execute against these responsibilities by asking you to create a product roadmap on the fly. Clement Kao shares a framework for building a roadmap that you can use to structure your answer, or better yet to build a roadmap for your product.
(via Clement Kao)
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Becoming a Product Leader
Wednesday, June 29th @ 1:00 PM EST
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BONUS: Register and attend this webinar, and receive a complimentary electronic copy of Build What Matters, by Ben Foster ($11.49 value)
BECOMING A PRODUCT LEADER
The thing very few people understand about product leadership is that the most essential skills aren’t even product skills. Anybody in the product organization can be a leader. But leadership isn’t a title. It’s a series of actions and behaviors that enhance influence and increase impact.
In this virtual fireside chat, we’ll dig in on Product Leadership with Ben Foster — a 25-year product veteran at places like eBay, Whoop, and elsewhere. Ben also teaches Product Leadership in his newly launched Product Leadership course through a collaboration between Product Collective and Gigantic.
We'll talk through:
- The major challenges that product people face when transitioning from product management to product leadership.
- Common traps and pitfalls that new product leaders often make and live through.
- What product people that aspire to transition into product leadership — or what new product leaders — can do in order to give themselves the biggest chance of success as a product leader.
Plus, we’ll answer questions of your own as well!
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Wireframing for Everyone
Wednesday, June 21st @ 12:30 PM EST
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Many UX techniques fall apart in the real world of overflowing backlogs, two-week sprints, and stubborn stakeholders. Yet wireframing persists, despite its much-anticipated demise. Wireframes are fast and easy to make, can be created and understood by anyone, and function as both creative ideation and practical communication tools.
We'll dig into all of this — and answer questions about wireframing that are relevant to product managers, specifically. Plus, bring questions of your own for Ellen and Leon to answer as well!
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