Product Roadmap
A product roadmap is a strategic communication tool. Its purpose is to show your team and other stakeholders what your product vision is and how it breaks down into product strategy and the product development initiatives needed to achieve that strategy. A product roadmap is not a Gantt chart, and it’s not a device for showing off every last detailed feature in your development plan – instead, a product roadmap should focus on high-level themes aligned around customer outcomes.
🛣️ Roadmapping Focus Week 💪
On February 7-13 2022, you joined us for Roadmapping Focus Week. We explored how to create an effective roadmap that drives alignment and helps you to realise the product vision. Check out the content from the week below.
Content
- Mon 7 February – 📽📝 Video + Blog [Members only]: In Lessons Learned in Building Product Roadmaps, Cloudflare’s Chief Product Officer, Jen Taylor, shares some roadmapping battle stories.
- Tues 8 February – 📝 Blog: In How to get the most value out of your product roadmap, Paul van den Broek, Product Manager at Coosto, explains why product roadmaps are an essential tool and how you can get the most value out of it.
- Tues 8 February -❓Async Q&A [Members only]: ProdPad CEO Janna Bastow answered your roadmapping questions in our new async format. You can read the questions and answers in the discussion community now.
- Weds 9 February -🎧 Podcast: In this episode of The Product Experience, Lily speaks with Jeremy Levy, CEO and co-founder of Indicative, about how analytics is a key asset to Optimising your product roadmap.
- Thurs 10 February – 📝 Blog: We all know roadmaps shouldn’t be timelines with lists of features. But in many organisations, that’s what executives and stakeholders want. In Roadmaps: Break the rules without breaking the principles, Mind the Product’s Managing Director Emily Tate explains how to stay true to the principles of a flexible roadmap.
- Friday 11 February – 📽📝 Video + Blog [Members only]: Watch Taming The Roadmap Circus by Maarten Dalmijn for insights into what product managers can do differently during the roadmapping process to avoid turning the process into a circus.
- Friday 11 February – 📽📝 Video + Blog: In Why roadmaps don’t matter (that much), Stephen Culligan provides some words of roadmapping warning — how we must see our roadmaps as part of the bigger picture, not the picture itself.
- Sun 13 February – 📝 Sunday Rewind: Do you ever feel like breaking up with your roadmap? In this Sunday Rewind, Roadmaps are Dead! Long Live Roadmaps!, we revisit a 2018 talk in which C. Todd Lombardo considers some of the things we love and hate about roadmaps.
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Mistakes to avoid while creating a product roadmap
As a product manager when you put so much effort into creating a product roadmap, seeing it fail due to common mistakes can be heartbreaking. Let’s go through the common pitfalls which you can avoid while creating a product roadmap to ensure it is going to serve the intended purpose. […] Read more »
Perfecting product roadmaps with Janna Bastow
In this Ask Me Anything (AMA) session for members, ProdPad CEO, and Mind the Product co-founder, Janna Bastow, joins Emily Tate, to answer all of your questions on perfecting product roadmaps. […] Read more »
SUNDAY REWIND: Roadmaps are Dead! Long Live Roadmaps! by C. Todd Lombardo
As our Roadmapping focus week draws to a close, we have decided to close on this epic #mtpcon San Francisco talk where C. Todd Lombardo takes on a topic that is emotional to most of us as product managers – the product roadmap. […] Read more »
Why roadmaps don't matter (that much) by Stephen Culligan
In this ProductTank Buenos Aires talk, Stephen Culligan, Head of Product at Prommt and former Product Manager at Pivotal Labs discusses how we can build better roadmaps by focusing on the bigger picture and pivoting our attention to strategy and vision. […] Read more »
Roadmaps: Break the rules without breaking the principles
We all know roadmaps shouldn’t be timelines with lists of features. But in many organizations, that is what executives and stakeholders want, or even require. If you can’t win the battle on roadmap structure, you can at least stay true to the principles of a flexible roadmap. […] Read more »
Product roadmaps vs data - Jeremy Levy on The Product Experience
Making your roadmap work hard for you is one of the critical skills of a Product Manager. Find out how Jeremy Levy, CEO of Indicative, leverages customer data to inform his product roadmap. In this episode, we also discuss who should be responsible for the data strategy in the business and why it’s so much easier to get it right these days. […] Read more »
How to get the most value out of your product roadmap
In this blog post, Paul van den Broek, Product Manager at Coosto, explains why product roadmaps are an essential tool for Product Managers and how you can get the most value out of it. […] Read more »
Lessons learned in building product roadmaps by Jen Taylor
Building product roadmaps to convey product direction is for teams as well as customers, but there are no universal rules on how to jump-start or get there. In this talk, Jen Taylor, shares battle stories and lessons learned from creating B2B products and platforms over the years. […] Read more »
SUNDAY REWIND: How bad ideas get on the product roadmap
How do we all get to that point where we have doubts against multiple items on the product roadmap, and what can we do to mitigate it? In this Sunday Rewind, we look back to insights by Christian Bonilla in his guest-authored post. […] Read more »
SUNDAY REWIND: Creating good roadmaps - 6 practical steps for product leaders
In this Sunday Rewind episode, we look back to when Product Leader, Matt Walton, shared 6 practical steps to creating good roadmaps. […] Read more »