Building my first roadmap
Intro For years I was simply spectacle to numerous roadmaps - both revealed (on paper) and unrevealed (in the head) that Product and Program Managers created. My job was always to contribute opinion and any insights, and sometimes I did influence the roadmap provided my arguments were strong. However, I never had an opportunity to build one myself from scratch. The first chance occurred in my most recent engagement as a Product Owner to build a roadmap for a SaaS product implementation in an enterprise for an important use case, and here are my thoughts Lessons (in the order of importance) A. Focusing on tackling assumptions first rather than building features This might sound cliche but whenever there is a development team on standby hungry to build and deploy there is a never ending temptation to do the 'real' work i.e. coding. Once we give into this temptation to build a roadmap full of 'features' it automatically influences prioritization by focusing on knowns i.e...