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OKRs and Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Key result 2: The onboarding system is improved, and time-to-proficiency is reduced by 25%. What are Product Roadmaps? A product roadmap is an actionable plan that describes how a product is likely to evolve. [3] Fortunately, in the last ten years, outcome-based, goal-oriented roadmaps have become more popular.

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GO Product Roadmap Checklist

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Overview The GO Product Roadmap consists of five elements, as the image below shows: Date, name, goal, features, and metrics. Sample goals include “acquiring new users,” “increasing conversion,” and “reducing cost.” Specific : Make the goal—a.k.a.

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10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

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. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. 2 Roadmap Goals are Features in Disguise.

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Three Qualities of Great Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. This makes the product roadmap more susceptible to change and it increases the effort to update it.

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A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Roman Pichler

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. To make these ideas more concrete, let’s look at a sample learning roadmap.

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Three Qualities of Great Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. This makes the product roadmap more susceptible to change and it increases the effort to update it.

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Creating a Product Strategy – Is it Worth the Effort?

Product Management University

Is creating a product strategy worth the effort? It’s difficult to flip the switch when most of your time is spent in the weeds taking care of the day-to-day product needs, launches, sales support, etc. Here’s an example of how you’d communicate your product strategy from the customer’s perspective.