What are some of the lenses your look through or principles you apply when prioritizing a roadmap? How are they weighted relative to each other?
12 Answers
Adobe Director, Product Management • 1mo
I would look through four primary lenses when prioritizing: Strategic alignment: Does this connect directly to the vision and OKRs? If not, it should not be on the roadm...
2599 Views
Meta Senior Director of Product Management • 2y
I think there are a lot of frameworks when it comes to prioritization. At the end of the day, what is important for me is a combination of prioritizationsequencingto arri...
3697 Views
HubSpot Group Product Manager • 2y
There are countless product management prioritization frameworks available, such as RICE (Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort) and MoSCoW (Must have, Should have, Could hav...
3382 Views
Splunk Director of Product Management • 3y
When I prioritize or stack rank a list of items, I typically find it helpful to understand how each item can (a) deliver customer impact and (b) increase engineering happ...
3507 Views
Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 2y
This is a great question. I've been using some variant of cost-adjusted impact scoring to prioritize roadmaps for over 20 years now. Every market, buyer, product and stra...
2603 Views
Meta Director of Product - Horizon Worlds Platform & Creation Tools | Formerly Microsoft, Photobucket, 5 start-ups • 2y
I like to start with the product stage, context, and strategy. From these, and your customer data you should be able to determine your prioritiesWith an early stage, pre-...
829 Views
Superhuman Head of Product, Enterprise • 2y
There are lots of frameworks available for prioritization. The key is to find the one that works the best for your product function and the needs of your stakeholders. Mo...
3062 Views
Asana Former Head of Product Operations | Formerly Adobe • 1y
Enumerating the lenses is easy enough. What's truly difficult is advising on their relative weighting. No single lens wins every time—it’s about balancing them to make sm...
605 Views
Confluent Senior Director of Product, AI Products and Strategy • Apr 1
I try to make prioritization feel less like intuition and more like a consistent set of lenses we apply to every decision.One thing that’s been important in practice is h...
355 Views
Roadmap items are execution against product strategy. Therefore, considerations for prioritizing roadmap items should include (1) support of the overall strategy, (2) inn...
675 Views
Barracuda Networks Sr. Director, Product Management • 1y
I primarily use a Cost-Adjusted Impact methodology, which helps bring objectivity and clarity to roadmap decisions—especially when tradeoffs are tough. The idea is simple...
852 Views
Related Questions
How do you determine how much of your roadmap should be focused on existing customers vs prospects?Which stakeholders have input into your roadmap, and how to balance giving them influence vs control?Who are all the stakeholders that can provide input to a product roadmap? What are the stage gates to help decide if something should land in the roadmap?What is your end to end process for prioritizing features on your roadmap?