Roadmaps for New Products

When you build a new product, it’s highly unlikely that you’re going to include every feature right out of the gate. Creating a product roadmap helps you to think through what your product will be capable of out of the gate. It also is a great tool to communicate your plans to your stakeholders, and perhaps even your customers.

How to establish an initial product roadmap in 10 steps. Organizations that are product-led use a planned, rolling, multi-year roadmap to guide product teams through their development of products. Paul Burke explains how companies use this accepted enterprise roadmap, to plan for these potential products and uses collaborative methodologies to validate solutions from three critical perspectives: desirability, viability, feasibility.

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Building a product roadmap for a new startup. As part of the application process for an accelerator he was speaking with, Shanif Dhanani had to build out a product roadmap for three quarters. He initially viewed that task with some trepidation, but having gone through it, he found it a valuable exercise and shared his lessons learned from building a roadmap for a startup.

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How to build an IoT product roadmap. Let’s face it. Building an IoT product roadmap is hard — much harder than building roadmaps for “normal” technology products. That’s because IoT products are complex systems. To create a working solution, all layers of the IoT Technology Stack — device hardware, device software, communications, cloud platform, and cloud applications — need to work together. It’s like having to manage five products in one, and your roadmap needs to be the glue that keeps all your stakeholders aligned with your vision. Daniel Elizalde explains how to build an IoT product roadmap by balancing a high-level view of the end-to-end product with more detailed views at each layer of the IoT Technology Stack.

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6 things to avoid when building your product roadmap. The folks at ProdPad love to talk about good practices of building and using product roadmaps. Yet they’ve found that sometimes the best way to learn to do something is to be clear on things you should not do. With that in mind, here are 6 of the most common faux pas that smart, well-intentioned product managers and larger product teams make with their roadmaps.?

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Product manager interview: Create a product roadmap. One of the core responsibilities as a product manager is to determine the long-term strategy for their product. To do so, product managers create product roadmaps to orient themselves and their teams on what new initiatives to tackle and within what general sequence and timeframe. During product manager interviews, many companies seek to understand your ability to execute against these responsibilities by asking you to create a product roadmap on the fly. Clement Kao shares a framework for building a roadmap that you can use to structure your answer, or better yet to build a roadmap for your product.

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