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10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link]. 1 The Product Roadmap is a Feature-based Plan. Traditional product roadmaps are usually output-focussed plans that map a list of features, like registration, search, and reporting, onto a timeline. 2 Roadmap Goals are Features in Disguise. I don’t think so.

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Ask Teresa: My Leaders Still Want Roadmaps with Timelines—What Should I Do?

Product Talk

Estimates are unreliable, problems grow in scope, and we don’t know what will work until we test it. Question: How do you respond to requests for date-based roadmaps? To provide a bit more context, one CDH community member was being drawn into theoretical debates about date-based roadmaps. The same is true for product teams.

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A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Roman Pichler

Listen to this article: [link]. Overview of the Learning Roadmap. Like a modern product roadmap, a learning roadmap states the specific outcomes or benefits you’d like to achieve to become a more competent product person, and it captures them in form of learning goals. Figure 1: A Sample Learning Roadmap.

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Concept testing, prototyping, and product roadmaps

TryMyUI

The answer is concept testing. In this article, we will define and talk about some of the reasons it’s so important. Additionally, we will talk about how it’s similar to prototyping and can impact your product roadmap. The post Concept testing, prototyping, and product roadmaps appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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Beyond the Book: Navigating the Real-World Challenges of Managing a Product Roadmap

The Product Coalition

Kris Gale As a wise man once said, no roadmap survives contact with reality. Firefighting while staying on course on the strategy and commitments of the roadmap is difficult. Like a forest never cleaned, filled with leaves, debris, and branches catches fire quickly, managing a roadmap left to rot is challenging.

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How Product Roadmaps Kill Outcomes [Dave Martin]

Userpilot

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. How roadmaps kill outcomes A classic roadmap is a list of features with a timeline.

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Riskiest Assumption Test (RAT): Why It’s a Better Framing Than Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

The Product Coalition

Test” vs. “Product” Finally, (and unfortunately) MVP is often interchangeably used as a “v1 release”. RAT stresses the fact that it is a collection of TESTs and not a “product” until we know that it should be a product. RAT doesn’t assume this is a roadmap item that’s been committed.