Module
Module 6 of 6Lesson 1 of 1~17 min

Final workshop: your product's outcome-based roadmap

The final workshop: you assemble the roadmap for your own product from everything the course has built. You leave with a document ready to discuss with the people around you, a grid to judge how solid it is and tools you can reuse in every planning cycle.

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Lesson objective

By the end of this lesson, you will have assembled your product's Now, Next, Later roadmap, tied to measurable outcomes and justified by your trade-offs, you will have self-assessed it with a grid, and you will leave with an exit kit and a 7-day and 30-day application plan.

Topics covered

  • roadmap workshop
  • now next later roadmap
  • product roadmap
  • roadmap self-assessment
  • product planning

Where it fits

Final workshop

How do I assemble and defend my own product's roadmap?

Lessons in this module

  1. Final workshop: your product's outcome-based roadmap (this lesson)

What you will learn in the course

This lesson is part of the course Prioritize and build an outcome-based roadmap

  • Tell outputs, product outcomes and business outcomes apart, and phrase a team's goal as a measurable change in behavior it can influence.
  • Write useful OKRs (a qualitative objective, measurable key results, guardrails) and spot their common failure modes.
  • Choose and apply a prioritization method suited to the question at hand (RICE, ICE, Kano, opportunity scoring, cost of delay, WSJF), taking its limits into account.
  • Handle requests from sales, support and leadership starting from the problem behind them, and say no or not now with reasons.
  • Build a Now, Next, Later or theme-based roadmap tied to measurable outcomes, with external commitments shown separately.
  • Communicate uncertainty and dates according to horizon and audience, and review the roadmap on a written rhythm and set of triggers.
  • Use AI to synthesize roadmap inputs (feedback, requests, data) while keeping evidence traceable and the decision human.

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