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
Product Management Deliverables:
Useful Resources
Silicon Valley Product Group
Marty Cagan's ongoing blog
Mind the Product
Mind the Product also organises regular meetups, conferences and runs a very active slack group. Its content covers all aspects of product management.
Lenny's Newsletter
By Lenny Rachitsky, former founder (Airbnb acqui-hire) & product lead at Airbnb. Covers multiple high level topics but also deep dives such as retention rates
Cagan: Inspired
A comprehensive guide to the practices of product management.
Moon: Different
How to build truly differentiated products in crowded markets.
Donoghue and Newell: Envision Product
A focused guide on how to get user experience right for startups
Segall: Insanely Simple
Few companies have perfected the art of simplicity as Apple has. A view behind the scenes of Apple's product design and marketing processes.