We always find ways to improve on our software creations. This struggle can prove to be a distraction and even detrimental to releasing an application. To combat those challenges and plan our releases, we can build a product roadmap. The map gives us a plan for the current version while allowing us to track ideas we want to save for later.
A Product Roadmap As Best Practice
The value of a product roadmap should not be lost on you. Some customers and vendors will want to see your roadmap. The presence of one shows that you have thought through your efforts. It points to the product as a living and evolving one while proving that the implementation effort included constraint. Too much functionality can be as much a negative factor for a solution as too little. There are even some good products that faded from existence as they tried to pour too much into the solution.
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Slide Deck: Product Roadmap
