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January 3 - March 19, 2021
A theme that describes the benefits but leaves out specifics about features gives you flexibility to cut specific features to make room for late-breaking requests.
The reason games like chess are a contest at all is that it’s not possible to predict precisely what your opponent will do in the future. Business competitors are the same. You can make a reasonable guess about how they will respond to your moves in the marketplace, but you can never be certain.
As long as you are still solving a real problem for people who are willing and able to pay, you should stay the course, but you will get there faster and with less risk if you adjust your precise route based on the weather or traffic conditions.
the business may decide to pivot
“a change in strategy without a change in vision.”
Don’t shy away from discussing change. Embrace it and get everyone on board.
Changes might be small
Changes might be broad-reaching
Changes can also be fundamental
If a roadmap is in some ways a story about how you envision success for your stakeholders such as the broad-reaching or fundamental levels, a roadmap update must tell the story of how you learned something that caused you to change direction.
even experienced teams can take months to arrive at a product roadmap and an update process they are happy with.
Design Sprint
Like a good roadmap, change requires alignment among the people involved.
a slide deck with everything you’ll need to prepare the launchpad for your roadmap relaunch at www.productroadmapping.com.
worked with the executive team to define a vision for what the company wanted to be, what problem they wanted to solve in the world, and for whom.
including revenue per customer, and penetration into new markets.
Each of Gillian’s product managers was responsible for publishing a roadmap for their product or product line.
focused heavily on the strategy—the “why” of what was proposed—much
Find ways to share your learning. In return, this will help you learn from others; the best way to get help is to offer it first.
Find out how your counterparts in other organizations run their product teams and roadmapping process.
