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A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Roman Pichler

Overview of the Learning Roadmap. Like a modern product roadmap, a learning roadmap states the specific outcomes or benefits you’d like to achieve to become a more competent product person, and it captures them in form of learning goals. To make these ideas more concrete, let’s look at a sample learning roadmap.

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Beyond the Book: Navigating the Real-World Challenges of Managing a Product Roadmap

The Product Coalition

Kris Gale As a wise man once said, no roadmap survives contact with reality. Firefighting while staying on course on the strategy and commitments of the roadmap is difficult. Like a forest never cleaned, filled with leaves, debris, and branches catches fire quickly, managing a roadmap left to rot is challenging.

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Defining Guidelines in Product Management

The Product Guy

Becoming a product person seems to be easier with access to clear guidelines. Keeping the end goal in mind, developing roadmap maps out how to get from current stage to the end goal and required resources and support. . There are no well defined, standard and easy-to-use guidelines to better product management.

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Middle Management Guideline: Only Plan for as Long As Your Management Can Commit

Johanna Rothman

See Create Successful Schedules: Three Tips to Rolling Wave Planning and the series that starts with Alternatives for Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Part 1, Think in Feature Sets. Later, she used these ideas for the product roadmaps. There's plenty more about rolling wave planning on this blog.)

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Avoid ‘Product’ Ground Hog Day: Unlocking Success When Crafting an Outcome-Driven Roadmap

The Product Coalition

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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The Power of Product Lifecycle Management: Steering Product Roadmaps to Success

The Product Coalition

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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Building a Multi-Dimensional Roadmap

The Product Coalition

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. These are the exact questions you need to ask when creating your roadmap. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap.

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