Roadmapping
Master the art and science of product roadmapping. Learn which roadmap format fits your context, how to align stakeholders, and why outcome-based roadmaps beat feature lists every time.
Six Ways to Draw a Roadmap — A Modern Reference
A visual field guide to six roadmap formats worth stealing in 2026 — Now/Next/Later, quarterly swimlanes, outcome-first, release trains, opportunity trees, and bets boards. Each with worked examples and notes on when it earns its keep.
Read the ReferenceWhy Now / Next / Later Beats the Gantt Chart
A roadmap format guide for PMs at big, timeline-loving companies. Why Gantt charts lie about certainty, how Janna Bastow rebuilt the modern roadmap, and how to introduce Now/Next/Later in a process-heavy org without starting a war.
Read ArticleFrom Mission to Task: How to Connect Strategy to Your Roadmap
Lenny Rachitsky's Mission → Vision → Strategy → Goals → Roadmap → Task stack, with a sharp warning about the gap in the middle. A tool for diagnosing why your roadmap feels disconnected from the bigger picture.
Read ArticlePrioritization Frameworks That Actually Work
A working PM's guide to RICE, ICE, DRICE, and GEM — and when to ignore them all and just T-shirt-size a list. A two-pass playbook for prioritization without spreadsheet theater.
Read ArticleThe Power of No: Cutting Scope and the Two-Roadmap Trick
Why your real roadmap should be smaller than the one you show stakeholders. The public vs. secret roadmap idea from Gaurav Misra, ruthless scope-cutting within initiatives, and five phrases that let you say no without sounding obstructionist.
Read ArticleOne Team, One Roadmap: Aligning Stakeholders in a Big Company
How to kill the shadow roadmaps and build the alignment a large, matrixed org actually needs. Lenny's five jobs of a roadmap, Linear's single-roadmap model, and a Monday-morning playbook for your first 90 days.
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