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OKRs and Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

What are Product Roadmaps? A product roadmap is an actionable plan that describes how a product is likely to evolve. [3] Fortunately, in the last ten years, outcome-based, goal-oriented roadmaps have become more popular. Below is an example of how such a product roadmap might be captured and the elements it might contain.

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A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Roman Pichler

Overview of the Learning Roadmap. Like a modern product roadmap, a learning roadmap states the specific outcomes or benefits you’d like to achieve to become a more competent product person, and it captures them in form of learning goals. To make these ideas more concrete, let’s look at a sample learning roadmap.

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10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

1 The Product Roadmap is a Feature-based Plan. Traditional product roadmaps are usually output-focussed plans that map a list of features, like registration, search, and reporting, onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. 2 Roadmap Goals are Features in Disguise.

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GO Product Roadmap Checklist

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Overview The GO Product Roadmap consists of five elements, as the image below shows: Date, name, goal, features, and metrics. The checklist I’ve created offers criteria for each element as well as the entire roadmap. Single : Choose a single goal to effectively align and guide people.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Whether you’re considering embedded payments or already underway, this interactive and informative webinar will help you build a clear roadmap to actualizing the true value of your payments investment!

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Three Qualities of Great Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. This makes the product roadmap more susceptible to change and it increases the effort to update it.

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When You Should NOT Use a Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] You Can’t See Further than the Next Three Months A product roadmap should be a realistic forecast that states the specific value a product is likely to offer in the next 12 months. [1] If you can’t see further than the next three months, then do not use a product roadmap.

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How to Sell Your Roadmap to Your Leadership Team

Speaker: Brett Truka, CEO, Devetry

A product roadmap needs to both capture your product’s strategy and outline your execution plan. Because these documents are such an essential component of your job as product manager, you also need to strategize your roadmap presentation. He'll share insights into what he, as an executive, looks for in a roadmap and presentation.

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Get S.M.A.R.T. with your Roadmap

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Technical Project Manager, iFixIt

When adding projects to a roadmap, the question of outsourcing or doing work “in house” is always a consideration. Timeline of the project in the roadmap. It's time to get SMART about what you do in-house! Measurement rules to monitor cost and success with enough time to adjust. Alignment with your purpose and vision.

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How Leveraging Data Creates Efficient Product Roadmaps

Speaker: Hannah Chaplin - Product Marketing Principal & Steve Cheshire - Product Manager

Without product usage data and user feedback guiding your product roadmap, product managers and engineers end up wasting money, time, and effort building what they think stakeholders want, rather than what they know they need. Product roadmaps must focus on the "now" and allow feedback to inform the "later."

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How to Evaluate and Implement Customer Feedback Into Your Product Roadmap

Speaker: Rebecca Notté, Product Operations Manager and Hannah Chaplin, Director of Product Marketing at Pendo

In this interactive session, Hannah and Rebecca will share their experience of building product roadmaps that align with company goals while also ensuring that customers are truly heard. You will come away having learned: A framework to follow which will help you evaluate and improve your Product Roadmap.

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The Art of Alignment: Balancing External & Internal Communications

Speaker: Vivek Bedi

There are a thousand moving parts to creating a product roadmap - particularly one that everyone can reference and use. Therefore, the development of an effective roadmap relies upon the ability to answer the question, "What is a roadmap, and what is it really going to be used for?". April 21, 2020 11AM PDT, 2PM EST, 7PM GMT.

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How Much is that Feature in the Window?

Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates

Roadmaps are about the future, and talking about a roadmap means talking about the future. This leads us to three obvious conclusions: You need multiple roadmaps. Roadmaps are guesses, and will often be “wrong”. The better you can manage expectations related to being “wrong," the better for everyone.

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How AI Can Help You Build Better Products: 10 Tools To Save You Time

AI can help with research, feedback management, user engagement, and roadmapping. AI is everywhere: from self-driving cars to text generation, to creating images and music. So, how can product managers use AI to save time and build better products? With AI, product managers can work faster and smarter.

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Managing Product Feedback at Scale

How to make more strategic product roadmap decisions based on data, not opinions. In this eBook, we’ll show you: How to gather, prioritize, and select the best ideas from your customers and stakeholders. How to make internal feedback more effective and inclusive. How to set expectations for new development both internally and externally.