Roadmap Planning

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Marion Nammack
Marion Nammack
Braze Director of Product ManagementFebruary 8
Let’s say that a product team and an executive team are aligned on the goal of improving customer satisfaction with the product (measured by a CSAT survey). The product team will then do research and perform experiments to validate the best way to impact customer satisfaction. Including executive......Read More
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Brandon Green
Brandon Green
Buffer Staff Product ManagerAugust 16
A PM's job is to take in a lot of inputs (including the 3 listed in this question) and articulate a compelling strategy and roadmap around achieving the best outcomes for your business. Within those are assumptions, risks, opportunities, etc. that are worth digging into and questioning, and from ......Read More
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Derek Ferguson
Derek Ferguson
GitLab Group Manager, ProductNovember 29
I think that the answer to this is: it depends. The specifics of how you go about introducing roadmapping, promote a product-based mindset, and establishing a consistent strategy for educating teams on product practices is going to depend on your organization, your industry, your leadership, and ......Read More
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Krishna Panicker
Krishna Panicker
Airbase VP ProductMarch 8
The answer lies in the breakdown of how the organisation intends to hit it's goals. See this answer for context - https://sharebird.com/h/product-management/q/how-do-you-handle-exec-input-in-the-roadmap-and-convey-a-point-of-view-while-also-accommodating-1 To take an extreme example, if 70% of ......Read More
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Krishna Panicker
Krishna Panicker
Airbase VP ProductMarch 8
Let's align on terminology first. https://medium.com/productfolio/release-plan-vs-launch-plan-774526d2817b The PMs lead on the Product Roadmap, but the PMMs lead on the GTM / Launch Plan. We package up our features that we want to launch into 3 -4 sizes (small , medium , large launch). Each laun......Read More
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Krishna Panicker
Krishna Panicker
Airbase VP ProductMarch 8
A public roadmap can serve as a tool to attract potential customers and increase the retention of existing customers by demonstrating that you are continually investing in the product and addressing their queries and concerns. There are Pros and Cons to having a public roadmap, and IMO the Pros ......Read More
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Aleks Bass
Aleks Bass
Typeform Vice President Product ManagementSeptember 7
Our product development lifecycle process looks very similar to a double diamond design process but with an adapted approach for our organization. While there are best practices for a product development processes, I've found that there is a decent amount of adaptation and adjustment that needs t......Read More
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Brandon Green
Brandon Green
Buffer Staff Product ManagerAugust 16
I've had to manage a couple different pivots like in my product career. What's worked best in terms of communicating is the following: * Making clear the "why" behind the pivot, and the risk associated with not pivoting * Stating clearly the underlying first principles or vision for the piv......Read More
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Aleks Bass
Aleks Bass
Typeform Vice President Product ManagementJune 15
There are several stakeholders that have input into our roadmap, a few main partners and collaborators are listed below: * Other Product & Design Teams * Sales/CS teams * Marketing & Growth * Research * And more… Most cross-functional partners just want to be heard and want to understa......Read More
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Derek Ferguson
Derek Ferguson
GitLab Group Manager, ProductNovember 29
Moving items in priority on the roadmap is going to happen. This is especially true if you are required to have a long-term roadmap. However, even with short-term roadmaps, it will happen. While I don't know the exact reasons why your company requires you to write long docs and create decks to ex......Read More
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