4 Excellent Examples of Agile “Nearsighted” Roadmaps

How GitHub, Meltano, Airbyte, and Atlassian manage to stay focused on bigger goals while still staying flexible and agile.

“As a PM, you must plan for the near term milestones (more detailed) as well as for the long term strategy (more broad), and everything in between. Considered as a spectrum, these form a nearsighted roadmap. This will enable you to efficiently communicate both internally and externally how the team is planning to deliver on the product vision.” (from the GitLab Product Handbook)

““In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Planning, roadmaps, OKRs. The modern-day product manager has lots of different tools he can use to conduct his work. I found roadmaps to be a very important part of my work. My understanding is guided by the two quotes above. As GitLab says, roadmaps are very effective communication devices. On the other hand, they are living documents and as such great for continuous planning. They provide the guardrails for a long-term perspective, and just…