What are the biggest challenges when creating a roadmap for a mature product?
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JetBrains Head of Product | Formerly GitLab, Jit.io, Cellebrite, Anima • 1mo
Some of the biggest challenges when creating a roadmap for mature products are:Legacy technology and architecture that require significant refactoring before innovation c...
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Workiva Vice President Of Product Management • 2y
The biggest challenge if you are not careful is you can fall into a trap of just making incremental enhancements and not staying focused on the outcomes you want to creat...
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Splunk Director of Product Management • 1y
There are many challenges when creating a roadmap for a mature product. But I feel it is no different from creating a roadmap for a new product. In the latter, you have s...
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HubSpot Group Product Manager • 2y
Creating a product roadmap is fraught with challenges, regardless of whether you’re working on a new/growing or a mature product. That said, when dealing with mature prod...
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Head of Product, VP • 2y
The biggest challenge with product roadmaps for any type of product is managing competing priorities. The trade-off triumvirate of time, scope and resources is always pre...
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Oracle Product Strategy Director • 2y
It can be difficult to win investment on mature products since engineering teams are looking to build new things. Additionally a mature product is often seen as nearing e...
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ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGrid • 5mo
I've run into the same three challenges in managing mature products: managing a large feature set, tech limitations, and migrating users or data. Mature products accumula...
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