Cheat Sheet for Product Roadmap Questions
Product Roadmap questions evaluate your ability to identify long-term opportunities for a technology product, develop a plan to achieve your product vision, and focus on what matters by cutting through various strategic choices
1. Describe the current state of the product |
Explain your view in areas such as:
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2. Describe a product vision | Develop a product vision that aligns with the realities of the business, the product, its users, and market. |
3. Choose a short-term goal | Determine a short-term goal that is driven by the current state of the company and the product vision. |
4. Select metrics | Choose the metrics that align with the goal you have selected, your resources, and the current state of the company. |
5. Identify the associated user group(s) | Determine the user group(s) that your product is going toserve over the next few months or years. |
6. Identify the prioritized feature set | Identify the pain points associated with your target user groups and describe which features should be built to solve those pain points. |
7. Create your product roadmap | Describe the sequence in which you plan to build the features. Outline your assumptions regarding the opinions of the engineering team, product design team, and other stakeholders. |