The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash There is a misconception that building a roadmap will define a product’s future. But a roadmap doesn’t create a clear view of the future. Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. People usually build roadmaps by throwing a bunch of unrelated projects onto a schedule.

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Product Culture

JANUARY 1, 2025

Heres a resolution: If you are starting this year with a product roadmap (or at least working on one), update regularly throughout the year. Regular roadmap updates set the expectation within your organization that you are constantly learning and adjusting accordingly. But how often should you update your roadmap?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2021

When I talk about roadmaps with younger product leaders, I often hear things like “we don’t need one, we are agile” or “why build a roadmap when things will surely change”. The roadmap sets the strategic direction of the company, and when built right it also doesn’t have to change that frequently, despite your agility.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

So either we work together to understand your objectives, call them goals if you’d like, and the outcome you are looking for from the product, or we will end the discussion, and you won’t get a committed set of work on the roadmap.” We went away from detailed, long-term, feature-committed roadmaps. I explained this many times.

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Ask Benny

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

How to effectively build and manage your roadmap and your stakeholders’ expectations. The Roadmap Challenge I recently participated in a meetup of very experienced product management leaders arranged by ProductX. We discussed roadmaps and the challenges surrounding them. Modify the roadmap based on their input if needed.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. 2 Involve the Right People. Close the meeting.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

That leads to large and unchangeable roadmaps and a lot of emphasis on predictability. This means you can create a product roadmap and a backlog. As a guideline, I like to review the strategy every 6-12 months. If you can't write that down, you can't build a roadmap or a backlog. Roadmaps are tactics, not strategies.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Then I thought further; maybe complete scenarios exist where roadmaps aren’t needed. Fast forward to the end, there are in fact scenarios where companies and products do not need roadmaps. Tell me your perspective.”,

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

roadmaps?” Executing a product roadmap requires more. Changes that you must reflect in the roadmap. Why is product lifecycle management important to product roadmaps? To illustrate the point, let’s look at two examples of where PLM and roadmaps intersect. Queue the time travel music…. Let’s dive a bit deeper.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Like that soccer team, products can fall apart when the team doesn’t work together toward a common goal following a roadmap. Soccer is a perfect parallel for product management and roadmap development. While they might seem worlds apart, they share common core principles for success — especially when it comes to roadmap development.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

This post is about making these ideas concrete through a set of guidelines, templates, and JIRA+Excel tips so you can create effective status and progress reports quickly, have less meetings , and get out of the building , which is where you need to be. Progress / Status.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

Maintaining templates, guidelines, how-to references and resources. Built an internal team wiki and created guidelines in coordination with product leadership for consistency and easy access. Product ops maintains and updates all internal documentation on product process, guidelines, onboarding guides, etc.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 26, 2020

Keep in mind, OKRs are not a representation of your entire product roadmap, which is often longer. Consistent Scoring Guideline. It's important that you establish a single consistent scoring guideline across the entire team so that anyone can reliably score OKRs and so the definitions are consistent and clear.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’re ready to submit your app to the app stores next week, condense the most important elements of pre-launch into a one-week period and move the other items to your post-launch roadmap. RESEARCH APP SUBMISSION GUIDELINES. LOCK IN YOUR THREE-MONTH PRODUCT ROADMAP. 30 Steps to a Successful Mobile App Launch.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 18, 2025

This provided a clear roadmap for the entire team and helped us stay on track. Weve also established clear guidelines to ensure that any necessary changes to the legacy system are carefully considered and, whenever possible, incorporated into the newdesign. For a deeper dive into our project planning, please refer to[ Link ].

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Many teams fail to understand the importance of a roadmap. They fail to understand how it can help to standardize roadmaps to align your team. There are more features to build, more roadmaps to maintain, and more stakeholders to satisfy. Our roadmaps can improve efficiency, reduce redundant work, and establish best practices.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

How to effectively build and manage your roadmap and your stakeholders’ expectations. The Roadmap Challenge I recently participated in a meetup of very experienced product management leaders arranged by ProductX. We discussed roadmaps and the challenges surrounding them. Modify the roadmap based on their input if needed.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As product managers, the product roadmap is at the core of everything we do. The product roadmap is a key point of reference to keep product strategy, business objectives, and execution aligned. And the first step to evangelizing your product roadmap across your organization is getting it out there for all to see.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

With all the best practices out there, improving CX without a customer experience roadmap can get overwhelming. Building a roadmap can help you understand your customer’s point of view, determine the CX tactics you should apply, and prioritize the tasks with greater returns. What is a customer experience (CX) roadmap?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 18, 2020

As a Customer Success Manager at ProductPlan for the past two years, I’ve worked with hundreds of our customers on establishing their roadmapping processes. Throughout my time with ProductPlan, one of the most common roadblocks I see inhibiting a successful roadmap process is a lack of accountability on roadmap editors.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Just as the standardisation of brands through corporate brand guidelines once signalled the end of exploration in advertising agencies, the standardisation of user interfaces through unified patterns and design systems now marks a similar trend in digital product design.

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

He comments: “Right now, everyone thinks that digital is going to come out of the COVID pandemic very well, and so many of our clients are saying their digital product roadmaps have been accelerated. Accessibility Guidelines. Accessibility Guidelines. Accessibility and Your Product. Why Build for Accessibility. Conclusion.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

10 guidelines to design high impact experiments. By testing variations of a design or user flow you can learn what your user base is most receptive to, regardless of your brand guidelines. Here are 10 guidelines to design high impact experiments. Part 2 of series on experimentation When should product managers experiment?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Describing how things worked at this stage, Claire says, “We were facing the classic roadmaps decided by the founders, ‘fights’ to push users’ voices in the decisions, and some frustrations of projects that we worked on for several weeks but never ended up going live because of ‘bad’ prioritizations or just opinion changes.”

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Regardless of the resources the product manager has at their disposal, they are solely responsible for ensuring their discovery efforts lead to unique insights that will shape the direction of the product, for summarizing and sharing those insights with the entire team, and then incorporating them into the product roadmap and product requirements.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 21, 2021

Product owners might want to change the roadmap as often as every 1-10 days, but I don't see that often. I more often see POs want to change the roadmap between three and six weeks. However, the team might not be able to decide on the roadmap by itself. Some Centralization for the Product Roadmap. Or on the roadmaps.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 21, 2015

Through this work we have come to value: Customer problems and needs over internal requirements Data driven experiments over preconceived solutions Customer problem roadmaps over feature roadmaps Idea generation and collaboration over solution mandates. Customer value roadmaps over feature roadmaps.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

, How to effectively build and manage your roadmap and your stakeholders’ expectations. ,, The Roadmap Challenge. The major reason for this challenge is that the roadmap is not just a tool for a product manager to properly plan. On top of that, your roadmap is also your commitment to your customers.

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

How to effectively build and manage your roadmap and your stakeholders’ expectations. The Roadmap Challenge I recently participated in a meetup of very experienced product management leaders arranged by ProductX. We discussed roadmaps and the challenges surrounding them. Modify the roadmap based on their input if needed.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

“The structures and guidelines you put in place for how you work as a team are a tool for affecting the whole team’s output” Because when you dig into it, it turns out we have all the same problems in common. And then individual teams have roadmaps, six-week cycle goals, and weekly goals. Developing a career plan.

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The Product Bistro

AUGUST 4, 2016

Section 2 – Learning the Product’s Business – Two chapters that provide a roadmap to understand fully the business and market of your product. Not really a manual, but a set of guidelines and tips that are useful.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

These two questions form the basis of any good product roadmap. Learn how to create the best product roadmap. Learning how to build a product roadmap is a key requirement to break into product management. The ability to prepare a great roadmap is one of the must have skills for any Product Manager. Roadmap Guidelines.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The Policy Gap Gap between Management Perception and Service Quality Specifications This gap occurs when internal policies or product standards do not fully translate customer needs into actionable guidelines for the product team. For product managers: Clear alignment between product vision and execution is essential.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Product Roadmaps are some of the most important product tools. Learn how to create your product roadmap in 2019, including 5 templates you can get inspiration from. Roadmapping is one of the unsung heroes in the product arena. Perfect your roadmapping skills by learning from the examples below! Useful, right?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When you become a manager, you need to be more deliberate about how you spend your time – after all, you will suddenly have way more tasks on your plate, including overseeing your reports, engaging with company strategy and helping craft the product roadmap. When should you write code? When onboarding in a new team.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But we are also expected to perform a series of System 2 tasks, such as carefully considering a product roadmap, framing user problems, undertaking strategic analysis, and evaluating different possible features. Here are two guidelines to get there. Rule 1: Know when to lean on your fast System 1 reactions.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

your roadmap), and then adjust the capabilities it can leverage to complete your task (e.g. For example, you can upload your roadmap, your company values, your career ladders, etc. Refine new product copy “We built a UX GPT Writer trained on all of our writing, brand guidelines, and product nomenclature. ’ etc.”

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