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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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The Busy Product Manager’s Guide to The 2024 State of Product Management Report

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Calling busy product professionals! We get it–your days are packed with roadmap review meetings, brainstorming sessions, and making (what sometimes feels like) too many PowerPoint presentations. Despite some significant challenges, 2024 is the year of product It’s official, 2024 is shaping up to be the year of product.

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How Merging Purpose With Profit Redefines Product Roadmaps And Product Success

The Product Coalition

Expensify aims to enable professionals to focus on what they were born to do by easing the task of managing expense reports. This purpose was rooted in the founder’s disdain for manual expense reporting and his desire to give people their time back for higher-order pursuits. Let’s look first at Expensify, a business software company.

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10 Ways a Feature-Less Roadmap Helps Your Product Strategy

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Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about why we’re so hostile to including features on product roadmaps. Features have long been the basic unit of measurement that product development teams track.

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Why Product Strategy is More Often Reactive than Proactive

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If so, chances are you were working without the benefit of a concrete product strategy. Product strategy helps with feeling overwhelmed because it Helps your product team see how your product contributes to your company’s goals. Helps you get the right items on your roadmap and keep the wrong items off it.

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Chapter 12/17?—?How to Develop Product Roadmap?

The Product Coalition

How to Develop Product Roadmap? Writing Good PRD & Managing Product Backlog [Back to?—? Product Management 101 ] Great products are not accidental. They all start with a focused strategy. To lay out and document your strategy, you need to develop a Product Roadmap. Product Roadmap?—?What

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Product Roadmap Success: BWP Hosts Lively Roundtable Discussion

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By Garima Painuly- One of the constant challenges a product manager faces is creating a focused product roadmap that is aligned with expectations of all stakeholders, and defending that roadmap against distractions. The discussion topics were inspired by a blog post from Fresh Tilled Soil on Building a Product Roadmap.

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