The three most important features of a Great Product Roadmap

Dr Bart Jaworski
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5 min readFeb 18, 2022

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Transparency is one of the most important aspects of a Product Manager’s work. One of its best ways to materialize is via a Product Roadmap. A good roadmap will highlight the skills of a Product Manager and build stakeholders' trust, if not hype, but a bad one can lead to, at the very least, a few unnecessary nervous discussions. So, what should one keep in mind when building the roadmap, to make sure it is successful on both presentation and merit parts?

1. Connect the roadmap items to your Product Goals/OKRs

When it comes to disclosing your plans, you will always be limited in time and resources. Just like deciding on your backlog items and sprint’s content is very difficult, choosing items for a 3, 6, or 12 months road map in a way that makes sense and can be feasibly delivered, brings the difficulty to a whole other level. Thus, it will make it easier for you if you can make sure that each roadmap item is connected to one of your product goals or OKRs. This way justifying the presence of a specific task on a roadmap becomes way easier. That is because the logic and intent behind every item will be covered by…

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Dr Bart Jaworski
Dr Bart Jaworski

Written by Dr Bart Jaworski

I am a senior Product Manager at Microsoft. My online courses have helped thousands to develop their Product Management careers. I would like to help you too!