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10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based.

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Should Product Roadmaps Have Dates?

Roman Pichler

What Product Roadmaps Are (in a Nutshell). To start with, let’s briefly recap what a product roadmap is. I view a roadmap as a high-level plan that states specific benefits a product should provide over a certain timeframe, which may range from six to 12 months. Ensure the Roadmap is Realistic.

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

The post includes plug-and-play strategy templates, recommended timelines, the stakeholders to involve at each step, and more 🔥 For more from Chandra, follow him on LinkedIn , and VRChat is hiring ! I worked closely with a seasoned board member to trace this back to a lack of product strategy—both articulated and aligned.

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Priority Starts at the Top

Folding Burritos

I believe the main culprits are Mr. Roadmap and Mr. Backlog. Culprit #1: Mr. Roadmap. How should we balance technical debt vs our feature roadmap? Well, th at’s the role of a product strategy. My favorite definitions of strategy are the simplest I’ve found. A simple representation for our product strategy.

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Defining the product vision is a high-stakes exercise, which makes it all the more important to avoid some common pitfalls product managers encounter: confusing the company’s vision with their product vision, defining a vision that’s too abstract to be useful in strategic planning, or combining the “what” and the “how” in the product vision.

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Prioritising a Product Backlog When Everything is Important

Roman Pichler

If it is not clear who the users are and why they would want to interact with the product, it will be hard to decide which items should be in the product backlog and how important they are. Let’s look at a brief example and say that I want to create a product that helps people eat healthily.

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Six Types of “Product” Owners

Roman Pichler

If someone is referred to as product owner, then the individual should own the product in its entirety—like Word in the example—and not just a product part—such as the ability to save a document. While using a strategic and tactical product role is a common scaling technique , it is best applied when the product is stable.