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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. 2 Roadmap Goals are Features in Disguise.

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Agile vs. Roadmaps — Ending the Battle [+Webinar]

280 Group

Sign up for our October 15th webinar, Unlocking a More Strategic Product Roadmap using Agile , to learn more in-depth about taking your product roadmap to the next level using Agile. The Product Roadmap. Similarly, product roadmaps can offer transparency and clarity into where we’re going and how we want to get there.

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How to Choose a Roadmap Tool

Dragonboat

People often associate the word “roadmap” with “product”, but the reality is that everybody needs to create roadmaps. At the end of the day, a roadmap is a plan of action that defines what are the goals that we are trying to achieve, and how to achieve them. A roadmap tool helps users create, manage […].

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Tools of the Trade: Visualizing Discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees

Product Talk

And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them. We’ll dig into the tools in a moment, but first, let’s get to know David and Trevor.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.

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A CPO Guide to Choosing the Right Roadmap Tool

Dragonboat

Ryan Polk, a seasoned Chief Product Officer (CPO) with nearly three decades of experience in engineering and product management, recently shared his insights during a CPO Series webinar focused on choosing the right roadmap tool.

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6 Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Basic Roadmap Tool

Dragonboat

And how to find the right alternative for your organization As your teams scale and your product management process matures, you may find that you’ve outgrown your basic roadmapping tools. How can you tell?

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Roadmaps Are Dead! Long Live Roadmaps!

Speaker: Bruce McCarthy, Co-Author of Product Roadmaps Relaunched and Founder of Product Culture

There are various frameworks and tools that are designed to help product management teams understand what to build, but somehow teams are still shipping products that don’t gain traction. Many times, when companies are building their product roadmaps, they are not properly accounting for customer validation.

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Get S.M.A.R.T. with your Roadmap

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Technical Project Manager, iFixIt

When adding projects to a roadmap, the question of outsourcing or doing work “in house” is always a consideration. Timeline of the project in the roadmap. It's time to get SMART about what you do in-house! Measurement rules to monitor cost and success with enough time to adjust. Resource considerations for short and long term needs.

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Potholes in your Roadmap and How to Fill Them

Speaker: Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor

As a Product Manager, prioritizing work on your roadmap is an important part of your role. To answer roadmap questions, you're probably familiar with frameworks like RICE and Cost of Delay. Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor, has identified potholes in your roadmap that are preventing you from planning as best as you can.

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How to Use Visual Product Roadmaps for Better Planning and Results

Product managers (PMs) must gather and analyze product data, create product roadmaps for multiple stakeholders, identify roadblocks, and track a long list of milestones—all while staying on a tight schedule. Using a visual planning tool like MindManager® can make this process a whole lot easier.

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Untangle the Complexity of Your Digital Transformation With Roadmapping: Confidence and Clarity for the Journey Ahead

Download this briefing paper to discover useful frameworks and tools researched and developed by the University of Cambridge. Learn about the ‘five steps for digital transformation’ framework and how roadmapping, in particular the S- and T- Plan methods, can drive and support all types of product and technology planning.

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Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment

Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager

Peter Taylor will walk through the change process step by step, and look at a tried and tested transformation roadmap: benefits are outlined, solutions to common challenges offered, and tried and tested methods and tools provided. How can conventional organizations succeed in this transformation?

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How to Build Your Product Team's Second Brain

I mean, we need calendars, feature descriptions, epics, designs, customer conversations, team conversations, prioritization, roadmap visibility, notes, long-form writing, CRM to stay on top of our sales, not to mention managing team's capacity, holidays, and more.

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Positioning to Win: How to Harness a Product Superpower

Speaker: April Dunford, Executive Consultant, Speaker, and Author

Your marketing plans, your sales strategy, your customer segmentation, your product roadmap - each of these uses positioning as an input. In this session, April Dunford is going to arm you with the tools you need to master positioning. Yet as important as positioning is, it is deeply misunderstood.