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GO Product Roadmap Checklist

Roman Pichler

Applying the criteria will significantly increase your chances of creating a realistic, actionable product roadmap that clearly describes the value your product should create and that aligns stakeholders and development team members. Goal Outcome-based : Clearly state why it is worthwhile to progress the product.

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10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

But it has the following three drawbacks: A feature-based roadmap can give rise to and strengthen a feature-factory mindset where adding features is more important than creating value and making a positive impact on people’s lives and the business. While goal-oriented roadmaps can be very beneficial, they are not always applied effectively.

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My Product Strategy Model

Roman Pichler

How does it differ from a product roadmap and how do the two plans relate? And what’s their relationship to the product vision and the product backlog? To answer these questions, I have developed the model shown in figure 1. Figure 1: My Product Strategy Model.

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How to Use Product Goals and Initiatives to Drive and Measure Success

Userpilot

Setting smart product goals is a vital skill for any sensible SaaS owner or product manager to get right. In this article, we’re going to explore what makes an effective product goal, the difference between goals and product initiatives, how to set them and make them work with your product backlog, and more.

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The Rise Of Customer Development

The Product Coalition

Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. A typical product development process would follow the Waterfall principles, taking quarters, and even a year to release a product to the market.

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Building High-Performing Product Teams

Roman Pichler

Additionally, the person in charge of the product must have the necessary expertise. Finally, the individual must be empowered to decide if no agreement can be reached within the product team. The development team representatives are members of one or more cross-functional development teams. Let’s take a look at them.

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OKRs and Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Figure 1: The GO Product Roadmap Figure 1 shows a specific goal-oriented roadmap template I developed, the GO Product Roadmap. The most important one is the goal , and it’s positioned in the middle of the template on the third row. It describes the specific benefit or outcome the product should achieve.

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