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Roadmaps Are Dead. Long Live Roadmaps! – Janna Bastow on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

When you have questions about roadmaps, it pays to talk to someone who has spent way too much of her life thinking about them. Janna Bastow – co-founder of both Mind the Product and ProdPad – has been trying to fix the problems of roadmaps for most of her professional life. The post Roadmaps Are Dead.

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Building a Multi-Dimensional Roadmap

The Product Coalition

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. These are the exact questions you need to ask when creating your roadmap. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap.

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Podcast: Roadmaps, OKRs, Vision and Prioritisation with Bruce McCarthy

Mind the Product

Bruce McCarthy was the president of the Boston Product Management Association, is the founder of consultancy Product Culture and co-wrote the book on roadmapping, Product Roadmaps Relaunched. A really good roadmap is a story about the future – and why it’s going to be awesome for everyone involved.

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Relationship Series Part III: The Delivery Consultant – Our Partner in Learning

The People of Product Management

Delivery consultants play the vital role of delivering products to satisfy clients’ needs as well as being the Voice of the Customer to the organization. In this post, which is part three of the Relationship Series, I unpack the relationship between the product manager and the delivery consultant.

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Product Development Demystified: Launching Faster with Confidence through Human Insight

Speaker: Kandice Durden, Senior Solutions Consultant

Kandice Durden, Senior Solutions Consultant at UserTesting, is here to discuss how leading organizations build, validate, and embed customer feedback into their development cycles to avoid rework at a time when budgets are shrinking. Approximately 50% of product budgets are allocated to reworking and optimizing post-launch experiences.

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Product Roadmaps in Five Easy Pieces

Mind the Product

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”.

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Help Your Customers React the Way You Want with These Roadmap Options, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

In Part 1 , I said that customers need a different kind of roadmap than teams do. One thing to remember: you might not need a customer-facing roadmap at all if you release often enough. And, customers might want different information from the roadmap. In that case, I like a dateless roadmap that you might update every 4-6 weeks.

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