roadmapping

Articles

How To Build A Product Roadmap Everyone Understands

How To Build A Product Roadmap Everyone Understands

This product roadmap template gets the job done.

The Product Roadmap That Boosts Innovation

The Product Roadmap That Boosts Innovation

Theme-based roadmaps start with a problem statement and move towards a solution, rather than start with features and struggle to keep up with a far more rigid roadmap.

The 666 roadmap

The 666 roadmap

If you work in a startup, a really effective way of thinking about your product roadmap is over three timelines: the next 6 years, next 6 months, and next 6 weeks.

Before you plan your product roadmap

Before you plan your product roadmap

Are all your users using all the features in your product? Of course they’re not. Let’s talk about that.

Ruthless Prioritization

Ruthless Prioritization

All high functioning teams must prioritize. Not once a month, not once a week — but rigorously, and ruthlessly.

A Radical, And Simple, Approach To Product Prioritization

A Radical, And Simple, Approach To Product Prioritization

How Do You Decide What Belongs In Your Product?

The 80/20 Rule in User Experience

The 80/20 Rule in User Experience

The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, states that 80% of results in a system come from 20% of the causes.

This Product Prioritization System Nabbed Pandora 70 Million Monthly Users with Just 40 Engineers

This Product Prioritization System Nabbed Pandora 70 Million Monthly Users with Just 40 Engineers

In an exclusive First Round CTO Summit talk, Tom Conrad — the company’s CTO since 2004 — broke down how the company figured out the exact right things to build fast and literally demanded buy-in from stakeholders (albeit with fake money, as you’ll see).

Growing up Lean: Lean Strategies for Maturing Products

Growing up Lean: Lean Strategies for Maturing Products

Roadmaps aren’t inherently bad… in fact, they can be a remarkably effective tool for communicating product strategy! And yet, a badly done roadmap can pave the way to a feature-filled product death.

Videos

Des Traynor on Product Roadmaps

Des Traynor on Product Roadmaps

Des explains in this talk, looking at your product roadmap is often a much clearer indication of what your company is about. Deciding what goes on your roadmap requires tough decisions and agonizing trade-offs.

Podcast

UX Roadmapping with David Pasztor

UX Roadmapping with David Pasztor

The biggest thing about UX roadmpaoing is that... there's no such thing. "Your UX roadmap is a product roadmap", says David Pasztor, the founder of UX Studio and the author of Product Design.

Mind the Product’s Janna Bastow on building product roadmaps

Mind the Product’s Janna Bastow on building product roadmaps

Building a great product is hard. Building a great product without a plan that accounts for iteration, quality control and user feedback is nearly impossible.

Crafting a Vision is Product Management

Crafting a Vision is Product Management

Blade Kotelly, Leader of the Advanced Concept Lab at Sonos and a Senior Lecturer at MIT, shares how to create an inspiring product vision and his three phase process for developing innovative ideas.

Tools

Trello

Trello

Infinitely flexible. Incredibly easy to use. Great mobile apps. It's free. Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details.

ProdPad

ProdPad

ProdPad is product management software that helps product managers develop product strategy. Easily manage teams, customers and roadmaps.

Aha!

Aha!

Aha! is the new way to create visual product roadmaps. Web-based product management tools and roadmapping software for agile product managers.

Roadmap

Roadmap

Beautiful, simple to use project forecasting tool. Plan your project, assign tasks, set timeline and get done within budget and on-time.

productboard

productboard

Capture problems, feedback and user research, organize and validate feature ideas, plan releases, share beautiful interactive roadmaps.

Books