What Should Be on the Roadmap?

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3 points·goopthink··3 comments

This is a high quality writeup around roadmaps and covers many ideas missing from product management discussions.

Reinertsen in "Product Flow" brings a economic framework to product management discussions. If you can incorporate your ideas around roadmap into a formal economic framework, it would be an original contribution.

Thanks, and that’s an interesting idea! What do you mean when you say economic framework? I’ve been wary of economic models because they tend to oversimplify and become “confidence artifacts”, so I’ve thought of this more as a toolset for thinking through problems (meant to add some templates for putting it into practice but it was getting quite long, maybe next post!). Looking into “Product Flow”, any other framework examples to look at?

Economic framework is probably overstating it. Reinersten quantifies the value of delay which he does using economics. This is the first time I have seen delay quantified in the context of agile product development (maybe I need to read more!). Extended to the roadmap the same idea can be used to sequence/prioritize features?

Most other frameworks are qualitative and seems like they were coined by someone who just graduated from b-school - high on feel good power words but low on objectivity ;)

Reinersten has some videos on youtube which are good intro into his thinking -

1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du2WV1IbULU - This one is actually part of a playlist

2- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6v6W7jkwok - This is longer and covers a bunch of his ideas.

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