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The “Why” Behind Your Product Roadmap

bpma ProductHub

By Don Stoddard – In the very best companies, roadmaps support key objectives with very specific measures impacting the business. Roadmaps are great at showing a direction, but they often don’t tell the story of “why.” And while strategy and Roadmaps set the direction, they are not enough to deliver results.

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Journey to Success: The Seven Pivotal Purposes of Product Roadmaps

The Product Coalition

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. So as he leaned across the table and looked me in the eyes, he demanded, “Explain why I need a product roadmap.” Why not, indeed?

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Priorities for Product Management Leaders; Product Management Festival 2014 recap

Good Product Manager

Recap in Tweets: Product Management Festival 2014. In addition to my presentation on Effectively Communicating Product Roadmaps, I participated in two panel discussions and tried to take in as many of the other presentations as I could. ." — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 17, 2014. Room is packed! kennethn #PMF14.

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Align your product roadmap to your company strategy

ProductBoard

Let’s hop in the wayback machine and travel back to summer 2014: The Amazon Fire Phone was released to much hype, yet 14 months later the company stopped production and discontinued sales shortly thereafter. The problem is the Fire Phone’s product roadmap. Source.

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Product Management Tools; Three Questions to Improve Product Management; Happy Holidays 2014

Good Product Manager

I’m pleased to announce the release of the SiriusDecisions Field Guide “Product Planning, Prioritization and Roadmapping 2015.” Until now there has been no resource to provide analysis on the overall landscape of technologies for product managers to use for planning, prioritizing, and roadmapping.

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How to Reduce the Product Backlog Size

Roman Pichler

If that’s the case for your product, then reduce the product backlog size by unbundling one or more features and releasing them as products in their own right, like Facebook did with Messenger in 2014. But don’t make the mistake of overloading your product roadmap with features and don’t add any epics or user stories to your product roadmap.

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Position Products Perfectly, Prototyping Properly: Product Management Alphabet Aerobics

The Product Coalition

The track gained renewed attention in 2014, when Daniel Radcliffe, performed the entire song flawlessly on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. link] In the original song the lyrics, every two lines move to the next letter of the alphabet.