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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’. It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’.

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Should Product Roadmaps Have Dates?

Roman Pichler

What Product Roadmaps Are (in a Nutshell). To start with, let’s briefly recap what a product roadmap is. I view a roadmap as a high-level plan that states specific benefits a product should provide over a certain timeframe, which may range from six to 12 months. Ensure the Roadmap is Realistic. Why Dates Are Beneficial.

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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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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

You use an outcome-based product roadmap and/or an opportunity solution tree , personas , user journey maps, and the product backlog to capture and validate your decisions and guide the product delivery effort. Unfortunately, this can cause the head to be overworked, become a bottleneck, and slow down decision-making.

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The Art of Alignment: Balancing External & Internal Communications

Speaker: Vivek Bedi

There are a thousand moving parts to creating a product roadmap - particularly one that everyone can reference and use. Therefore, the development of an effective roadmap relies upon the ability to answer the question, "What is a roadmap, and what is it really going to be used for?".

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How Product Roadmaps Kill Outcomes [Dave Martin]

Userpilot

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. How roadmaps kill outcomes A classic roadmap is a list of features with a timeline.

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Journey to Success: The Seven Pivotal Purposes of Product Roadmaps

The Product Coalition

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. So as he leaned across the table and looked me in the eyes, he demanded, “Explain why I need a product roadmap.” Why not, indeed?

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