Category: Roadmaps
Should Your Product Roadmap Go All the Way to Your Product’s Completion?
Think of Walt Disney walking into a meeting with his business partners to start discussions for building Disneyland. Do you… Read →
5 Successful Products and their Secrets to Success
Recently we published a post here about the fatal flaws that led to several products’ untimely demises. Cautionary tales shared… Read →
Why Product Managers Should Bring Their Roadmaps to Development Planning Meetings
Physicist and futurist Michio Kaku theorizes that in the near future, robots and artificial intelligence will replace any job, or… Read →
How Should You Set Your Product Roadmap Timeframes?
If you saw a product roadmap that spanned 15 years into the future, how useful do you think those items… Read →
How to Defend Your Product Roadmap When HiPPOs Attack
A HiPPO, or “highest paid person in the room’s opinion,” is something all product managers face multiple times throughout their… Read →
Four Steps to Creating a Strategy-Based Roadmap: Why Starting with Vision Matters
In my 12 years as a software product manager for Sonos, I benefited from an established company vision and strategy,… Read →
Benefits of a Purpose-Built Roadmap Tool
We’ve written a lot here at the ProductPlan Blog about the value of crafting your product roadmap using purpose-built roadmap… Read →
How to Liven Up Your Excel-based Roadmap Meetings (if You’re Really Stuck with Excel)
Caution: Satirical post. Reduce seriousness ahead. There is one recorded instance in world history of a PowerPoint presentation bringing an… Read →
Looking for a Roadmap Tool? Here are 9 Things to Demand
So, you’ve had it with trying to get stakeholder buy-in on your product strategy using a lifeless spreadsheet to present… Read →
Roadmap Timelines: Do You Need Them? When?
Often the most fiercely debated issue on a company’s product roadmap isn’t related to the product’s functionality or user experience—it’s… Read →
Book Review: Key Takeaways from Product Roadmaps Relaunched
At ProductPlan, we’re avid readers. We have a regular book club where we read and discuss books on a range… Read →
Purpose-Built Roadmap Tools: 5 Reasons Product Managers Switch to Them
If you’ve ever built or presented a product roadmap (or any type of strategic roadmap) using software designed for spreadsheets… Read →
When is it Smart to Share Your Roadmap Publicly? And When Would it be a Disaster?
Economist Arthur Laffer became famous—well, as famous as an economist can become—when he introduced his Laffer Curve to explain how… Read →
Assembling a Product Roadmap
Why Do We Roadmap? As a Product Manager, you need to know where you are, where you’re going, and what… Read →
6 Reasons Product Roadmaps Fail
Product roadmaps fail more often than you might realize, because they can be difficult to create properly. To be effective,… Read →
4 Example Business Roadmaps
Before we look at some example business roadmaps, try this word-association exercise. As you read a word in the list… Read →
How to Break Product Features into User Stories
During our recent webinar—How Product Managers and Agile Development Teams Can See Eye to Eye—we received so many attendee questions… Read →
The Anatomy of a Roadmap
Let’s talk product roadmap nuts and bolts. It can be easy, especially for product roadmap proponents like us, to talk… Read →