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Product Roadmaps are NOT Todo Lists
Product Roadmaps are NOT a plan or todo list.
If you have verbs like "discover" “design” “build”, etc on your roadmap you’ve got a plan not a roadmap!
And whilst most product people get this conceptually, there’s still far too many roadmaps that look like gantt charts.
Building Effective Product Roadmaps
Last week, over 300 passionate product people joined me live for a free webinar on ‘Building Effective Product Roadmaps’ (the recording is below).
I want to share the results of the polls I ran during the webinar and figured, why not do a summary of the key points too.
Let’s get into it!
7 Different Product Roadmap Formats
There are many different types of roadmaps and different formats that roadmaps can take.
Here are a few different shapes a Product Roadmap can take. I hope this gives you some inspiration and perhaps even makes you rethink your current roadmap format.