From the course: Product Management: Building a Product Roadmap
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The product roadmap meeting: Getting input and alignment
From the course: Product Management: Building a Product Roadmap
The product roadmap meeting: Getting input and alignment
- Once you've created a straw man product roadmap of your own, you're ready to get together your product stakeholders to review and hopefully approve your roadmap. This is the most crucial step in the whole process. Remember, the purpose of the product roadmap is not the document itself, but the alignment of the different product stakeholders around the development plan that your roadmap represents. You'll want to plan and run this critical meeting in close collaboration with your business leader, like your CEO or general manager, since they directly manage most of the product stakeholders and have the authority to ask for their participation. At the start of the meeting, explain the goal, to emerge with a shared product roadmap that all stakeholders fully support and can use in their own planning. The first item on the agenda should be a quick review of your product strategy. Explain that it's the foundation and that the roadmap must be designed to implement the strategy. It's…
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