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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