Prioritization and roadmaps

Deciding what to build: feature requests, prioritization frameworks, backlogs, and roadmaps people trust.

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October 27, 2017

Product Management by Committee: A Recipe for Disaster

It sounds like a really attractive proposition -- let’s all get together and decide, as a team, where we want the product to go! It’s a deceptively

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August 16, 2016

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How to Distinguish Between Your Product Roadmap, Product Strategy, and Product Vision

Roadmap, strategy, and vision are not the same. A clear breakdown of how they differ, how they connect, and how to align your team around all three.

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July 19, 2016

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How to Balance Short-Term and Long-Term Product Priorities

Ship now without mortgaging the future. How to balance short term wins and long term product priorities while keeping the roadmap tied to strategy.

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June 9, 2016

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How to Hold an Interactive Product Roadmapping Meeting

Roadmapping does not have to be a solo task. Interactive activities to get every stakeholder genuinely involved in your product roadmap meeting.

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June 2, 2016

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How I Get Buy-In on My Product Roadmap

You think the hard work of developing a product roadmap is done when you’ve done extensive research

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May 26, 2016

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Aligning Your Product Roadmap with Company Goals

Connect the roadmap to what the business is trying to achieve. How to align product priorities with company goals and defend them to leadership.

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May 10, 2016

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Strategies for Balancing Innovation and Technical Debt

You want and need to develop new functionalities, but with every new feature you add, you’re also adding a complexity cost. How do you strike a balance?

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May 5, 2016

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How to Communicate Your Product Roadmap to Stakeholders

Get buy in for the roadmap. Practical ways to communicate product priorities to customers, sales, and leadership without overpromising.

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February 24, 2016

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How to get from Firehose of Ideas to a Strategic Product Roadmap

Product planning and strategizing can be an exciting process — and not just for product managers.

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February 11, 2016

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How to Tame Your Product Backlog

Overwhelmed by your product backlog? We break down some strategies for organizing and leveraging it so you can get your features - and sanity - in order.

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January 12, 2016

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How to Balance Internal Feature Requests with Customer Feedback

As a product manager, it can be a challenge to balance internal feature requests and customer feedback. Here, our suggestions for weighing input from both.

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December 10, 2015

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9 Scary Signs You Should Kill a Feature

When a feature first enters the product backlog or is penciled in on a roadmap, it is full of nothing but promise.

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