Rerun: Roadmaps are dead. Long live roadmaps! – Janna Bastow on The Product Experience

The Product Experience

When you have questions about roadmaps, it pays to talk to someone who has spent way too much of her life thinking about them. Janna Bastow – co-founder of both Mind the Product and ProdPad joins us to give advice to anyone ready to break up with their roadmap.

Featured Links: Follow Janna on Twitter and LinkedIn ｜ ProdPad on Twitter, and read more of her posts ｜ Troubleshooting Agile – Jeffery Fredrick & Douglas Squirrel’s episode of The Product Experience ｜Killing Zombies – Lisa Long’s episode of The Product Experience

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Lily Smith enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Chief Product Officer at BBC Maestro, and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She’s worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Lily also founded ProductTank Bristol and runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

Randy Silver is a Leadership & Product Coach and Consultant. He gets teams unstuck, helping you to supercharge your results. Randy's held interim CPO and Leadership roles at scale-ups and SMEs, advised start-ups, and been Head of Product at HSBC and Sainsbury’s. He participated in Silicon Valley Product Group’s Coaching the Coaches forum, and speaks frequently at conferences and events. You can join one of communities he runs for CPOs (CPO Circles), Product Managers (Product In the {A}ether) and Product Coaches. He’s the author of What Do We Do Now? A Product Manager’s Guide to Strategy in the Time of COVID-19. A recovering music journalist and editor, Randy also launched Amazon’s music stores in the US & UK.

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1. Product Roadmaps (00:00:00)

2. Managing Roadmaps Without Dates (00:08:39)

3. Deadlines and Tech Debt Issues (00:15:24)

4. Changing Company Culture Through Roadmaps (00:21:57)

5. Product Roadmap Ownership and Transparency (00:31:35)