Product Roadmap
A product roadmap is a strategic communication tool. Its purpose is to show your team and other stakeholders what your product vision is and how it breaks down into product strategy and the product development initiatives needed to achieve that strategy. A product roadmap is not a Gantt chart, and it’s not a device for showing off every last detailed feature in your development plan – instead, a product roadmap should focus on high-level themes aligned around customer outcomes.
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SUNDAY REWIND: Product roadmaps in five easy pieces
This week’s Sunday Rewind takes us back to a 2018 post from product leader Scott Colfer that digs into five elements that make up a good roadmap. The five elements are, says Scott: Context Set the context for your product, considering things like product lifecycle stage, organisational needs, and audience. Scott says his product roadmaps often Read more »
SUNDAY REWIND: The biggest challenge for product managers?
What is your biggest challenge as a product manager? The million-dollar question had Christian Bonilla thinking. He, therefore, decided to publish his key findings and his thoughts on this matter, which is what we’ll be delving into for this Sunday Rewind episode. Read more »
Nailing the final phase of your product roadmap
Nail the final phase of your product roadmap by understanding the process and preparation involved in a product launch. With these tips, you can stick the landing on a winning release. Read more »
Mistakes to avoid while creating a product roadmap
As a product manager when you put so much effort into creating a product roadmap, seeing it fail due to common mistakes can be heartbreaking. Let’s go through the common pitfalls which you can avoid while creating a product roadmap to ensure it is going to serve the intended purpose. Read more »
Perfecting product roadmaps with Janna Bastow
In this Ask Me Anything (AMA) session for members, ProdPad CEO, and Mind the Product co-founder, Janna Bastow, joins Emily Tate, to answer all of your questions on perfecting product roadmaps. Read more »
SUNDAY REWIND: Roadmaps are Dead! Long Live Roadmaps! by C. Todd Lombardo
As our Roadmapping focus week draws to a close, we have decided to close on this epic #mtpcon San Francisco talk where C. Todd Lombardo takes on a topic that is emotional to most of us as product managers – the product roadmap. Read more »
Why roadmaps don't matter (that much) by Stephen Culligan
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. Read more »
Roadmaps: Break the rules without breaking the principles
We all know roadmaps shouldn’t be timelines with lists of features. But in many organizations, that is what executives and stakeholders want, or even require. If you can’t win the battle on roadmap structure, you can at least stay true to the principles of a flexible roadmap. Read more »
Product roadmaps vs data - Jeremy Levy on The Product Experience
Making your roadmap work hard for you is one of the critical skills of a Product Manager. Find out how Jeremy Levy, CEO of Indicative, leverages customer data to inform his product roadmap. In this episode, we also discuss who should be responsible for the data strategy in the business and why it’s so much easier to get it right these days. Read more »
How to get the most value out of your product roadmap
In this blog post, Paul van den Broek, Product Manager at Coosto, explains why product roadmaps are an essential tool for Product Managers and how you can get the most value out of it. Read more »