How to create more effective product roadmap ?

A product roadmap is a powerful tool to describe how a product is likely to grow & to align the stakeholders.

Effective Roadmap ~ Good Product

How about such Framework ?

Thanks to Andrew Chen & Noah Weiss — Designed this framework reading your essays on products, found this working well.

Identify & Define all your business goals or metrics, such as…

Sorry, could not cover all metrics or products :-(

Anything built in product must have required impact on a core metric or goal. Also, a primary factor to prioritise features.

Do give a catchy & unique name to a feature — helps bring emotion in to execution

Couple of lines to describe the feature, should help anyone in company to relate and understand the feature.

Every feature should have a related micro level metric, may be adoption or repeat usage.

Used to prioritise features, define experiments, design features, track feature’s success.

Feature Fallacy is a myth that the next feature to be shipped will change the game for you.

Never ship or prioritise a feature which do not clear feature fallacy test.

Ask will the feature have maximum impact in terms of user segment & its adoption ?

Who is the target of this feature? — Core User, Non-User or New User

What kind of investment required by the user — Deep or Lesser

Pass features where target segment is above average size & requires lesser investment from user

Always prefer or prioritise features with virality impact.

Put ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ in the column to signify as value.

Consider Tech Team Inputs on Sizing & Velocity on shipping a feature. No need to mention — Its also a key to prioritise features.

In the end, roadmap is all about Priority. so, lets generate an output in form of buckets — #Now , #Next & #Later

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