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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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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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Are you Solving Customer Problems or Just Building Features?

ProductPlan

Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories? But are you solving for actual customer problems?

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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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Building Relationships with Other Team Leaders

UserVoice

and while you may be the one given domain over the roadmap, your stakeholders take these peers’ opinions of your work into serious account. And this requires that we understand, even to a facile level, the different goals and motivations that other people and teams in the organization might have.

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Just like a product roadmap shouldn’t simply be a list of to-do items , I’m looking for outcomes and objectives in this context. Are they team players?

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Just like a product roadmap shouldn’t simply be a list of to-do items , I’m looking for outcomes and objectives in this context. Are they team players?