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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. I don’t think so.

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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’. Our product was evolving rapidly and haphazardly.

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User Documentation: The Ultimate Guide for Product Managers

Userpilot

Knowledge is power and user documentation is necessary for building it. But great documentation doesn’t happen by accident. This comprehensive guide will enable proactive product managers to figure out exactly how to craft documentation that will help users solve their problems and delight them.

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Revive Your Product Roadmap

Alchemer Mobile

2020 completely changed the way we approach digital product planning (pretty crazy since nothing else really changed in 2020, right?). Digital transformation is back to most companies’ top investment channels, remote product management is the future of work, and there is more marketplace need for product managers than ever before—hooray?

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How to Sell Your Roadmap to Your Leadership Team

Speaker: Brett Truka, CEO, Devetry

A product roadmap needs to both capture your product’s strategy and outline your execution plan. Because these documents are such an essential component of your job as product manager, you also need to strategize your roadmap presentation. How to reduce the risk associated with your product roadmap.

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What is a Product Roadmap? From Plans to Purpose.

The Product Coalition

How Product Roadmaps Bridge the Gap and Fuel Success. “A A product roadmap is a tool for communication and alignment. Central to this journey is the product roadmap. The Journey of a Product: The Roadmap Queue the time travel music. I panic; a roadmap, I think to myself, puzzled.

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Roadmapping Isn’t Just for Product Managers Anymore

ProductPlan

You will find several product management techniques useful during this transformation, such as roadmapping. Once considered the domain of product managers, roadmaps are useful in various contexts. Why IT departments use roadmaps. Here are some specific reasons. Build clarity and understanding.

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It's Alive! Bringing Your Product Roadmap Back From the Dead

Speaker: Lisa Mo Wagner, Product Management Coach, Writer, Speaker and WomenTech Ambassador

Timeline roadmaps provide us with a false sense of certainty and security. Often, product teams fall into the trap of creating a roadmap that doesn’t support timely customer feedback. Companies frequently make this mistake by creating a product roadmap 1-3 years in advance. How to Manage your product roadmap.