A New Approach to Roadmapping
How to communicate product roadmaps across teams and departments with agility and clarity.
What Is the Difference Between Product Roadmaps for Physical vs. Digital Products?
Product roadmaps are not a new idea, but how we develop, follow, and manage roadmaps is changing. Every company needs to have sleek, powerful software that allows agility, oversight, and transparency for product management to stay competitive.
How Having a Product Roadmap Can Transform Your Organization
A roadmap is an essential tool that guides our actions step-by-step to a destination or goal. Maps on their own have been guiding people from place to place since at least 600BCE.
Just released: Enhanced Product Roadmap
As product managers, you know that a meaningful product strategy and roadmap are more than just timelines. To control the product's destiny, many people have to come together to make adjustments along the way. Some decisions may result in compromises such as delayed launch, change in scope, or cost. Adjustments must then be made to align with business and customer expectations. These decisions require cross-functional team collaboration and a space that can provide them with the information they need to discuss and make an informed decision in the shortest time possible.
Why Is a Product Roadmap Necessary?
Manufacturing a product from scratch takes strategic planning, purposeful timing, and effective communication across all departments, from product development and engineering to sales, marketing, and even finance.
The 7 Key Challenges to Product Roadmap Management (And how to address them!)
Every year, innovation brings new and improved products to life, making many amazing and brilliant things available to us, from advanced electronic systems to fuel-efficient or electric vehicles to AI technology, making the dangerous industries safer for humans.
5 Factors Separating the Product Management of Hardware vs. Software Products
The day-to-day experiences of product management roles have similarities between industries. There needs to be a product vision established, a development plan laid out, and a strategy to manage it all must be created.
9 Skills a Product Manager Must Have
What if you could conjure up a new car with the snap of your fingers? Or create the latest smartphone with the tap of a button? That is the kind of efficiency that people dream of, but since technology isn't quite there yet, manufacturers still rely on product managers to help bring these products to life as efficiently as possible.
Just released: Tracking growth using the financial roadmap
Every business has an annual or multi-year objective to meet. They do this either by introducing new products, changing current ones, or sunsetting others. As Product Managers, you are one of the drivers for innovation. One question every business asks is how much will the introduction of new products contribute to the growth of our business and will it meet the objectives? Now Gocious will allow teams to capture growth metrics and visualize that on your roadmap.
5 Crucial Steps to Building a Clear Product Roadmap
Product roadmaps are a great way to keep track of your company's progress towards designing, building, and releasing new products to the market. A product roadmap creates a space where you can set goals, track performance, and make decisions for future development. When you have a plan to look over each product and product line, you'll be able to spot both the success and trouble spots with more insight and metrics to prove it. The product roadmap also provides a framework for communicating with stakeholders, investors, and marketing teams.
We've established that roadmaps are great for business, but how should a product roadmap be structured? How can a company keep track of multiple products and brands destined for various markets? We've got five simple steps you can use to build any product roadmap, along with an important tip for managing multiple product lines!
