The future might look nothing like a 12 lane LA highway. What would a crazy successful and awesome product development team actually look like? Would they still have Gantt-like visuals for their roadmap? #MobProgramming #Agile2014- Woody Zuill July 24, 2014 #AgileTip: Awesome People Will do Awesome Things When they have an Opportunity to Be Awesome. What would it take for the company to be awesome? The other day, Woody Zuill asked me something to the effect of: What would need to happen such that this wasn’t even an issue. All caution against using the roadmap as a glorified feature gantt chart. Httpv://This advice is mirrored by most of the roadmapping software vendors like ProductPlan and Aha, as well as folks like Melissa Perri, Roman Pichler, etc. And that’s nothing new or groundbreaking. To be clear, I advocate for thinking in terms of initiatives, problems to solve, and missions. (From somewhat similar questions… #noestimates) I’m blocking you on Twitter.Ĭheck out this overview of one of the classic Twitter debates. So you’re on crack!Ĭhallenger: What is to say that isn’t successful in spite of ?ĭefender: Damn you. And plenty of great teams - you know - use them also. Just not me… You need to get back to the basics… You need to stop doing it the old way…Ĭhallenger: What could you do such that would be possible without the abuse, and observable negative effects?ĭefender: This is heresy. My response: Don't build a stupid product roadmap #prodmgmt- Scott Sehlhorst (he/him) August 28, 2009ĭefender: You’re just not doing it right. You will also find debates that look something like this:Ĭhallenger: (Methodology) is Agree that bad roadmaps suck. Luckily this stuff is out there in the Google-verse by the boatload. Some common product roadmap failures I described in a recent talk: A Summary of Almost all Methodology Debates on Twitter: Challengers vs. Idea from to convince yourself roadmaps don't work, look at last quarter's & count the number of ideas that shipped & really worked- Jeff Patton June 19, 2015 This Tweet from Jeff Patton wraps it all up: Create dependencies across the organization (decreases agility).Discourage experimentation and acting on new insights/data.your roadmap is fine for communicating with executives, but fails to meet the needs of your front-line teams) Fail to address the needs of all “users” (e.g.Encourage group think - satisficing - over focus. ![]()
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