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C. Todd Lombardo is interviewed by Phil Hornby from Talking Roadmaps on the benefits of sharing your roadmaps with customers

Bruce McCarthy is interviewed by Phil Hornby of Talking Roadmaps for a segment on why roadmaps need to tell a story

A podcast on shifting focus from the “how” to the “why” by properly using a product roadmap.

A podcast on key leadership topics such as: why should IoT be part of your product strategy, how to work with executives to clarify the company vision, and 10 universal business objectives companies can use to drive their strategy

A talk on frameworks for deciding among (too many) good ideas and explaining why we chose those

A podcast about the role of roadmaps in portfolio management — what a portfolio is, how portfolios can be created and managed, and how to construct a roadmap for a portfolio

A podcast on what a product roadmap is, who the roadmap is for, the pitfalls of roadmaps, the inputs needed to create a roadmap, how to organize a roadmap, and how to prioritize product features

A podcast about what is and is not a product roadmap, who it is for, the inputs needed to properly construct a roadmap, how to organize a roadmap, and ways to prioritize product features

A talk about why we ship the wrong thing, what a roadmap is and is not, the 5 components of a good roadmap, and how gain alignment on your roadmap

Interview with Bruce McCarthy and Growth Sandwich on how Product teams can adopt OKRs to align themselves with the highest vision and strategy of the business

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This is a curated list of the best books on product management

A talk about prioritizing your most critical initiatives to increase your organization’s focus by increasing confidence in your prioritization decisions

Podcast on the intersection of product culture and product management

A talk from Business of Software conference

Podcast with @ChadMcAllister on the need for product leaders to manage stakeholders and the associated challenges this creates

Podcast on how changing how businesses see roadmaps will help teams build more impactful software for their customers

Podcast on the definition of product, product vs project management, probabilistic forecasting, and the importance of using roadmaps right

Interactive discussion on how successful product-focused organizations think and act differently every day in the networked age

How to assess and diagnose what ails your product team

Feature on the Boston Product Management Association (BPMA) blog

Feature on the Boston Product Management Association (BPMA) blog

Feature on the Boston Product Management Association (BPMA) blog

Feature on @MindtheProduct blog

eBook on O’Reilly learning platform

Product Culture blog

Product Culture blog

Product Culture blog

Product Culture blog

Product Culture blog

Product Culture blog

Product Culture blog

Bruce McCarthy’s guest blog for Softbinator Technologies

Take our 30-question quiz to score your organization’s maturity in the roadmapping process.

Practice making and tracking changes to your roadmap.

How often should your update your roadmap, and how do you effectively communicate changes?

Run an internal roadmapping worskhop.

Practice your pitch with at least three colleagues and ask for feedback.

How to present your roadmap in front of executives, customers, or investors.

Consider the Swimlanes, Stages, or Holistic configuration for creating your roadmap.

Compare Now-Next-Later, OKR-driven, horizons-oriented, and other styles of roadmaps.

Put our stakeholder alignment techniques into practice.

What does it mean to get buy-in within your organization?

Calculate priority scores for each theme you created.

Compare the Kano, MoSCoW, FVD, or ROI Scorecard methods.

Business objectives are a way to measure progress and continue to fund your work.

Business objectives are what will be measurably different for your organization.

Pick a stage of life for your product — whether you’re in development, growth, or maturity.

If you plot sales over time, most products fit into a similar pattern.

Practice writing out your customer needs, problems, or jobs to be done.

Avoid getting into a “feature war” with your competitors.

How can you get your customers saying, “Wow, you designed this product just for me!”

Themes are the problems to be solved in order to realize your product vision.

Discover how Product Culture roadmaps go beyond the limitations of traditional roadmaps.

Understand what a roadmap is and what it isn’t by taking a look at some real-life examples.

Understand the role each of the five components of a roadmap plays.

Without these five elements, you cannot have an effective roadmap.

Create your own product vision.

Product vision is how a future world will benefit from your product when it is fully realized.

Before you get started, define what type of product you are making a roadmap for.

As your first exercise, write a “breakup letter” to your current roadmap methodology.

Welcome to Product Culture’s Masterclass on Product Roadmapping.

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