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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

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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A Tale of Two Roadmaps?—?And Why You Can’t Succeed With Only One

The Product Coalition

A Tale of Two Roadmaps — And Why You Can’t Succeed With Only One “There is no one-size-fits-all product roadmap. A roadmap can and should look different depending on the situation. Todd Lombardo Once upon a time, in a city like yours, two versions of a roadmap emerged. But within this complexity lay its charm.

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A Tale of Two Products: BigVision vs. HyperNarrowFocus

The Product Coalition

BigVision BigVision is a business (or product or department) that has a big, exciting vision. We just need to start with First Opportunity first as due to our market analysis and business modelling, this is the best one to tackle”. HyperNarrowFocus tasks its research teams with performing a Discovery with First Opportunity in mind.

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Treat Your Career Like you Treat Your Products by Adam Warburton

Mind the Product

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. It’s like a chance bit of customer feedback that we end up devoting a two-year roadmap to. Developing a long-term relationship with someone who can act as your mentor and provide advice and direction can help to get around this. The Roadmap. Find a Mentor.

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37 Roadmap Tips to Align Stakeholders

ProductPlan

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Others dive into the specifics and make engineering teams happy since they’re so detailed. Gather consensus around goals.

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Methodology is Right For Your Project?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Which should you and your teams decide the utilize? Whichever methodology a team operates under will heavily influence how they work and communicate with one another.

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391: Product VP of Wyze uses community for product innovation and you can too – with Steve McIrvin

Product Innovation Educators

A group of passionate users in our social media and forum communities drives our roadmap and and helps us understand the problems we need to solve. We’re pushing the boundaries of computer vision and machine learning. 8:00] Tell us more about how you’re developing your core capabilities, especially AI visual recognition.