roadmap

Why date-based timeline roadmaps are valuable for Agile product teams

Date-based, or “timeline,” roadmapping has become a boogieman for modern product teams. Yet, they are entirely useful in several scenarios, including for backward planning from milestones, multi-team planning, and release planning for the near future. We outline each in detail.

Winston Blick

Winston Blick

How to build an outcome-driven product roadmap — a step-by-step guide

How do you create product roadmaps that communicate the outcomes the product team is working towards? Our step-by-step guide can help you build your own.

Dottie Schrock

Dottie Schrock

The building blocks of excellent product roadmaps

All good roadmaps reflect the desired outcomes the product is trying to achieve rather than just outputs and are a product of cross-functional collaboration.

Dottie Schrock

Productboard Editorial

Good vs. bad roadmaps (Infographic)

What makes a good roadmap? What makes a bad roadmap? Get a side-by-side comparison in our new roadmaps infographic!

Tony Lee

Tony Lee

It’s time for better roadmaps: Take a roadtrip with Productboard

It’s time for better roadmaps with Productboard’s customer-centric roadmaps, customized for all audiences, and always up-to-date.

Tony Lee

Tony Lee

7 examples of excellent product roadmaps

These 7 product roadmap examples can help you communicate your product strategy in a way that’s easily understood.

Tony Lee

Tony Lee

Roadmap vs. release plan: What’s the difference?

As a product manager, you rely on several tools and artifacts to help you document and communicate your work. Two popular examples are roadmaps and release plans. These are similar tools that are often conflated. But there are some important distinctions between them that are worth investigating.

Dottie Schrock

Melissa Suzuno

A Product Roadmap Process that is Product Development Friendly

Improve your roadmapping by changing how you communicate, focusing on the customer, prioritizing the short-term, and not letting it be the success metric.

Dottie Schrock

Monty Mitra

Why user insights are a crucial piece of excellent product roadmaps

Instead of using the product roadmap to merely share what is being developed and when it will be delivered, the roadmap should be a tool for building a shared understanding of the why behind each decision. Here’s how linking insights to your roadmap can help.

Dottie Schrock

Dottie Schrock

Focus your roadmaps on outcomes, not outputs

Written by Bruce McCarthy, author, speaker, founder at Product Culture, for our ebook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice From the Field. Product roadmaps have gotten a bad rap. Most of them deserve it. Ask someone what a product roadmap is and 9 out of 10 times you’ll

Dottie Schrock

Dottie Schrock

The secret ingredient to building a product roadmap? Collaboration.

Product roadmaps are a visual representation of where a company’s product is headed and why. And because this affects everyone — not just the product team — the roadmap should be a collaborative effort.

Dottie Schrock

Dottie Schrock

Rich Mironov knows how to build products that your customers will actually use (and shares his expertise with you)

Rich Mironov is a product person through and through. As a product manager and leader for three decades and counting (“turns out that if you stick with it for 30 years, you can be an overnight success!”), he believes in clearly defining product vision and strategy, getting to the bottom

Dottie Schrock

Dottie Schrock