October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
5h 45m
English
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Chapter 2. Components of a Roadmap
What you’ll learn in this chapter
An Example Roadmap
The primary components for any product roadmap
Product vision
Business objectives
Themes
Timeframes
Disclaimer
Secondary components to answer the concerns of certain stakeholders
Features and solutions
Confidence
Stage of development
Target customers
Product areas
Complementary information to provide context for your roadmap
Project information
Platform considerations
Financial context
External drivers
A document that can effectively rally your troops around a plan needs to be more than just a list of features and dates.
It needs to tell the story of what it will be like when you achieve your vision, what it will take to get there, and how you will know if you are making progress.
A lot of product people think of a roadmap as a simple chart with dates and features, but a document that can effectively rally your troops around a plan needs to be more than that. It needs to tell the story of what it will be like when you achieve your vision, what it will take to get there, and how you will know if you are making progress.
Every roadmap is different, and exactly what yours looks like will depend on what you are trying to communicate and to whom. There’s no template or boilerplate you can plug-and-play for roadmap greatness, and a standardized roadmap doesn’t work across all organizations.
In this chapter, we will explain each of these primary roadmap components using a simple (hypothetical) product roadmap for our favorite ...
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