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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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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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Three Qualities of Great Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. Second, it overlaps with the product backlog, especially when detailed features are used. Outcome-based).

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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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How To Design Your Next Roadmap with Data-Driven Pit Stops Masterclass

Speaker: Sonia Singhal, Product Manager at eBay

These days, a simple A/B test can seem to incorporate the whole alphabet, and making a decision from that data isn't as easy as A, B, C either. How do we know we are testing the right thing? How can we shorten the time it takes to do the tests while gaining larger amounts of data? How to create your next data-driven roadmap.

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Roadmaps Are Dead. Long Live Roadmaps! – Janna Bastow on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

When you have questions about roadmaps, it pays to talk to someone who has spent way too much of her life thinking about them. Janna Bastow – co-founder of both Mind the Product and ProdPad – has been trying to fix the problems of roadmaps for most of her professional life. The post Roadmaps Are Dead.

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The Essential Questions That Lead To A Powerful Product Roadmap

The Product Coalition

The Essential Questions That Lead To A Great Product Roadmap “The question ‘Why?’ The roadmap for a new digital product designed to support a high-risk population suffering tremendously from the burden of disease. I ran through the roadmap for the product, fielding all the questions and handling them like a pro.

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When Life Gives You Lemons Make PM Lemonade: Surviving Product Management During Crisis

Speaker: Vivek Bedi, Keynote Speaker, Author & Entrepreneur

In fact, the entire way product managers work has completely changed. The work/life balance of PMs is being tested; managing a product team and various roadmaps virtually adds to the list of current challenges. In this session, you will learn more about how to: Manage a team remotely. And much more!

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Building a Culture of Experimentation: Using Continuous Development for Faster & Safer Product Releases

Continuous development takes things further by giving product teams more autonomy and freedom to test out their ideas and experiment with new features in production by choosing who they want to test on. Testing in production –– why it’s important, and the many ways you can deploy your features safely and efficiently.