Product Planning and Roadmap Cycle
A robust planning process should follow a multi-step cycle that takes care of different time horizons.
A strong roadmap process is essential for several reasons:
- Forces setting of strategic priorities and hard trade-offs
- Enables capacity planning for staffing and infrastructure
- Provides sense of reliability and predictability to key customers (and investors!)
- Revenue impact planning for relevant key features
Pitfall: Jumping directly from the grand long-term vision right into nitty-gritty sprint deliverables without fleshing out the middle layers first is a frequent mistake. It will lead to a growing disconnect between long-term planning and what the product team is working on.
Product Management Deliverables:
Product Vision
Roadmaps
UI Design
Customer Research
Useful Resources
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