Product Roadmap

What is it? – Product roadmap defines what is coming up in the Product along with the timeline.  It can be defined for short term or long term or both. It can be defined using a spreadsheet, project file, presentation, picture or any other form.  It is all about planning and development. It talks about the new projects planned and the areas of developments that team is planning to work on.

Why is it? – Product roadmap gives an insight about the product plan.  It is the tool of the Product Management team to show the product vision. It allows customers to know more about the product, its focus and expansion.  It allows marketing teams to talk about the upcoming features.  It allows development and QE teams to plan their activities.

What is in it? – Product roadmap contains the upcoming feature list and the timeframe at a high-level.  Items in this list are based on: market research, client requests, organization’s vision, expansion plans, new customers and their specific needs, internal cost reductions.  Each item is given a brief description and a definite timeline based on its priority; highest priority item takes first slot.

Market Research: Product marketing and Product Management teams do this market research in the domain of the product.  Latest happenings, latest best practices, expert opinions, global implications, trends etc, are the inputs for market research.  This market research can be done through magazines, blogs, social media sites, expert columns, news papers etc.  This is a must to improve customer satisfaction. This is a must to be the frontline runner against competition within the domain.  This is a must to attract new business.  This is a must to attract new talent to work with our product and make it better and better.

Client requests: Client requests play a very important role in determining the priorities.  If a particular feature enhancement impacts the business of client(s), we should give it, higher priority within the roadmap.

Vision:  The vision of the Product and Product Development Company influences certain items within the roadmap.  Certain decisions of the management have to be taken into consideration.

New Customer needs:  New customers, who are running pilot, may need certain feature enhancements for them to go live.  Such items obviously get higher priority.  As always, customer is kingJ.

Internal cost reduction:  Any automation within current manual steps and/or process changes, which reduce the internal costs, are very much important for the success of the product and to serve the customers better.

How to: Internal Product roadmap draft should be created first, to circulate it within the management. After all the necessary modifications, once it is approved, final version of internal product roadmap should be presented internally to all employees. After taking all inputs into consideration, the external Product roadmap can be published and discussed with customers.  Please note that clients do not like lot of changes within product roadmap.  PM team should be very strong at planning and changes to product roadmap reflect the lack of it.

Telugu Vaaramulu

తెలుగు వారములు

ఆదివారము       -- భానువాసరః

సోమవారము -- ఇందువాసరః

మంగళవారము -- భౌమవాసరః

 బుధవారము -- సౌమ్యవాసరః

గురువారము -- బృహస్పతివాసరః

శుక్రవారము -- భ్రుగువాసరః

శనివారము -- స్థిరవాసరః

Telugu Masamulu

తెలుగు మాసములు

చైత్ర మాసం           -- ఉత్తరాయణం -- వసంత ఋతువు

వైశాఖ మాసం        -- ఉత్తరాయణం -- వసంత ఋతువు

జ్యేష్ట మాసం           -- ఉత్తరాయణం -- గ్రీష్మ ఋతువు

ఆషాఢ మాసం        -- ఉత్తరాయణం -- గ్రీష్మ ఋతువు

శ్రావణ మాసం         --దక్షిణాయణం -- వర్ష ఋతువు

బాధ్రపద మాసం      --దక్షిణాయణం -- వర్ష ఋతువు

ఆశ్వయుజ మాసం  --దక్షిణాయణం -- శరత్ ఋతువు

కార్తీక మాసం          --దక్షిణాయణం -- శరత్ ఋతువు

మార్గశిర మాసం      --దక్షిణాయణం -- హేమంత ఋతువు

పుష్య మాసం          -- ఉత్తరాయణం  -- హేమంత ఋతువు

మాఘ మాసం         -- ఉత్తరాయణం -- శిశిర ఋతువు

ఫాల్గుణ మాసం        -- ఉత్తరాయణం -- శిశిర ఋతువు