Talking Roadmaps How is making a roadmap like cooking? | Gabrielle Bufrem
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Nov 10, 2023 Gabrielle Bufrem, Product Leadership Coach, discusses the purpose of a roadmap and the role of a product manager as a translator. They highlight the importance of happiness in roadmaps, explore common patterns in experience and platform teams, and emphasize the significance of shipping code faster and delivering value. Roadmapping advice is compared to the concept of 'mise en place' in French cooking.
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Audience-Specific Roadmaps
- Tailor roadmap communication to different audiences (team, company, customers).
- Provide detailed information to the team, relevant info to the company, and only share safe information with customers.
Stakeholder Management
- Understand stakeholders' priorities and frame roadmaps to address their interests.
- Use the "shadow the policy" technique: Discuss the roadmap with each stakeholder individually before the group meeting.
Pre-Meeting Alignment
- Gabrielle Bufrem recounts a report who dismissed her advice about pre-meeting stakeholder alignment.
- The report later called her, admitting the meeting was "terrible" due to misalignment.