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Ask Teresa: My Leaders Still Want Roadmaps with Timelines—What Should I Do?

Product Talk

Question: How do you respond to requests for date-based roadmaps? To provide a bit more context, one CDH community member was being drawn into theoretical debates about date-based roadmaps. First, I’d like to address some of the shortcomings of date-based roadmaps. At best, creating a date-based roadmap is a waste of time.

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Mastering Product Success: Unveiling the Power of Product Vision, Roadmaps, and Goals

People-First Product Leadership

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. What is the vision for the future you want to create? What ground has been covered?

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How To Build a Customer-Facing Roadmap That Communicates Your Product Vision

ProductPlan

This vision holds true with our own organization as well. This year, we focus on the major priorities that help us achieve our vision while maintaining an easy-to-use, delightful, and flexible user experience. Through this effort, we created a very exciting and strategic annual roadmap. Why we built a customer-facing roadmap.

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10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Rather, they start with a strong product vision. Getting that vision right is one of the most important responsibilities of the product team. Join Christian Bonilla, VP of Product at UserTesting, as he reveals tips for taking ownership of the product vision to guide the development process.

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How To Avoid the Product Version 1 and Done Dilemma

Product Management University

Version 1 Products Need a Vision and Strategic Roadmap The easiest way to avoid the version 1 product dilemma is to describe what the product will ultimately help customers accomplish, why that outcome is valuable, and in pecking order, the biggest obstacles standing in the way of that outcome. It’s part of the job.

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Why Your Engineers Are Hungry for Your Product Vision.

The Product Coalition

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Directionality.

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