Build an outcome-based roadmap
A roadmap full of features and dates promises a lot and explains little. This lesson teaches you to structure your roadmap in Now, Next and Later horizons centered on the problems to solve and the outcomes you aim for, and to defend it calmly when people ask you for precise deadlines.
Lesson objective
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to build a Now / Next / Later roadmap organized around problems and desired outcomes, with an MVP defined by its hypothesis and a success criterion per horizon, and to defend it against requests for dates.
Topics covered
- product roadmap
- outcome-based roadmap
- Now Next Later
- MVP
- product communication
In the glossary
Where it fits
Prioritize, plan, hand off
In what order to ship, how to communicate it, and how to hand off without losing anything?
Lessons in this module
- Prioritize the backlog with RICE and MoSCoW
- Build an outcome-based roadmap (this lesson)
- Hand off to the development team
What you will learn in this module
This lesson is part of the course Design and validate a product experience with AI
- Map a flow with its edge cases and turn it into low-fidelity wireframes that cover every screen state.
- Prioritize a backlog with an explicit method (RICE, MoSCoW, value / effort), making the score's assumptions visible, and justify the trade-off.
- Build an outcome-based roadmap with success criteria, and write a handoff spec with acceptance criteria.
Related courses
- Product ManagementAdvancedRegular practice: you already use the tools or work on this topic.
Write specs that developers and AI agents understand
2 hr 30 min
- Product ManagementAdvancedRegular practice: you already use the tools or work on this topic.
Instrument a product and use data to make decisions
3 hr 30 min
- Product ManagementAdvancedRegular practice: you already use the tools or work on this topic.
Prioritize and build an outcome-based roadmap
2 hr 30 min