Most roadmaps are setting up their product teams to fail.
That's because, even today, most roadmaps still follow the dreaded *timeline roadmap* format 😱
And here's why that sucks. THREAD 👇
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Moved to Win11 this week and the inability to have my task bar on the right is really throwing me 😵💫
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this was so fun!
and i talked about prioritization, roadmaps, product vision, when it's time to hand off product, and so much more!
below is one of my "hot takes": founders need to own product until close to product-market fit since they own the vision!
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Catch up on our latest webinar with @gbufremsays on how to build impactful products and digging into prioritization frameworks.
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My telescope is in the process of taking hundreds of photos of a single nebula over the course of more than an hour, and stacks the photos together to create a progressively more vibrant picture 🌌
The app illustrates it brilliantly with the slider:
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Results from last night's outing with the telescope ✨ did not disappoint ✨
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The future of email with ChatGPT.
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First clear night in ages, playing with my new Vaonis telescope 🤩
Simple programming to give it targets across the night sky, and let it work its magic ✨
Very preliminary results are in 👀
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OH: Product management is like bi-curiousity but for tech
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This is in less than an hour if you want to jump in on that link!
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I’ll be teaming up with @gbufremsays for our upcoming webinar on building impactful products – What prioritization frameworks are actually useful and which just don’t hack it? Join us next Monday for our first webinar of the year.
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hubs.ly/Q01xtQmK0i love hanging out with ! excited to join her for 's first webinar of the year and talk all things product but especially talk about how to build products that drive true impact for the business.
what are your top questions?
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I’ll be teaming up with for our upcoming webinar on building impactful products – What prioritization frameworks are actually useful and which just don’t hack it? Join us next Monday for our first webinar of the year.🚀
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A warm intro to an amazing product leader on the market might be possible, if the role looks right!
DM me or just drop your job stuff in the thread and they'll see it 👀
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Who's hiring CPOs/VP Product right now? Asking for a friend 😁
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so excited to hangout with and talk product! great way to kick off the year. ✨
what are the top questions you want us to discuss?
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Kick-start the new year with our upcoming webinar with guest, @gbufremsays and host @simplybastow as they discuss the importance of a customer-based prioritization strategy to build successful products. 
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The wind dried my curls and they've come out great 🌬️ (somehow better outcome than anything else I try.. how do I replicate this on non blustery days? 😝) instagram.com/p/CnH6fTHLX8O/
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CPO’s in the circle, do fill this survey. #chiefproductofficer #CPO #productmanagement #survey #goodkarma
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Calling all CPOs!
We're about to release a research report on Chief Product Officers and the shape this leadership role is taking in 2023... and we need as many of you to get your 5 mins of input here as possible.
RT this for reach please 
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No doubt this will provide some fascinating insights, but the more CPOs respond, the better it will be! Please share for reach.
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Calling all CPOs!
We're about to release a research report on Chief Product Officers and the shape this leadership role is taking in 2023... and we need as many of you to get your 5 mins of input here as possible.
RT this for reach please
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Calling all CPOs!
We're about to release a research report on Chief Product Officers and the shape this leadership role is taking in 2023... and we need as many of you to get your 5 mins of input here as possible.
RT this for reach please ✨
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"We can't decide if this feature is valuable or not so we'll just make it user-configurable"
Twitter's product management train wreck continues 🤦🏻♀️
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Elon Musk says Twitter will let people turn off view counts after users immediately complained the new feature looks messy trib.al/1i4Stlk
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I made cookies 🫠
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I have Christmas lights that have a multi option that look like a car alarm sounds.
ME: Twitter is quiet these days, but it's kinda cozy 😊
TWITTER: actually thousands of people read your tweets and do nothing
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Got questions about these jobs? Want to do something with ProdPad that's not listed on our Careers site?
Reach out to me and let's talk about what you're great at, and maybe we can find a way to work together 💪
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Customers are for life, not just for Christmas. Join as our *Customer Success Manager* to focus on the retention side of the funnel:
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Love talking to new people, solving people's problems? We're looking for a *Customer Success Manager* to tackle the acquisition/onboarding end of the funnel:
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Are you an awesome writer? Join as our *Content Writer*, to help us nail our written word efforts:
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Join as our *Head of Engineering*, to have a hand in mentoring, leading, and delivering an amazing product:
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Closing out the year by announcing some new hires we're doing at for 2023!
Want to build for a product management audience?
Links below:
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Cat one, licking his balls.
Cat two, standing on the presents when I've told him not to.
Very festive scenes 😑
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I worked on this at Twitter in 2015. IIRC we tested it and most people didn't get any views and we had to have some thresholds before showing it as "0 views" was depressing
We also wanted to be accurate and not count if someone quickly scrolls past your tweet in their TL
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"Twitter, but make it riddled with vanity metrics"
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Questions to ask yourself before a product team meeting
🔸Is this meeting necessary?
🔸Is this a regular meeting or a one-off?
🔸How long do we need?
🔸Who needs to come? This will change depending on the type of meeting.
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I guess a ‘Now, Next, Later’ on a micro level… but the reasons and output are the same. Keeping people informed, updated and confident in timelines.
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Want to learn more about ditching timeline roadmaps? Check out the guide I wrote on this here:
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Only state big deadlines on your Now/Next/Later roadmap, right on the relevant card.
This will give you more leeway to be flexible with the *rest* of your roadmap, yet still shows your execs you understand when a deadline is strategically important or externally driven.
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Make the argument that date-driven roadmaps are more expensive and risky.
Point out that people add buffer to their timelines and things get rushed out the door.
This is where your tech debt is coming from.
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Constantly report on what you have done.
Talk about releases, learnings, and iterations.
Show your work and the process by which you do it.
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Do you constantly get asked for dates and deadlines by your exec team?
It's frustrating, but it's important to remember that often, they just want to know the date of something because they don't trust that work is happening without it.
So, how do you win their trust?
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I may or may not be notable.
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