Category: Roadmaps
7 Secrets for Successful Product Roadmaps
Wouldn’t it be great if you could learn, right now, from hundreds of experienced product managers? What would they say… Read →
No, Your Customer Is Not Always Right. Why You Need to Validate Customer Requests.
It is difficult to think of a phrase that has been more misinterpreted and misused by businesses than, “The customer… Read →
Why In-App Onboarding Deserves a Spot on Your Roadmap
If you work for a SaaS company, you probably regard in-app onboarding and training the way many software product managers… Read →
Why Your Startup Needs a Product Roadmap
We’ve noticed a disturbing trend lately. Some product managers have been suggesting that startups don’t need a product roadmap—and that… Read →
If You’ve Never Built a Product Roadmap…
If you’ve never built a product roadmap, the task can seem daunting. The roadmap is, after all, a high-profile strategic… Read →
Creating a Roadmap: How Long Should it Take?
A successful product roadmap is, in a sense, a work of art. So to answer the question, “How long should… Read →
How to Build a Product Roadmap Based on a Business Model Canvas
Could you list all of the key building blocks you need to develop, manage, maintain, market, and sell a product… Read →
How and When to Share Your Product Roadmap
Successful product managers know how important it is to share their product roadmap with internal stakeholders. Sharing the roadmap with… Read →
How to Tame the Product Roadmap Chaos
As you know if you’ve been a product manager for more than 15 minutes, it’s a messy role. Doesn’t matter… Read →
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 Sprint 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?
Choosing the correct product roadmap timeframe can be challenging even for experienced product managers. If you saw a product roadmap… 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 →