Janna Bastow & James Mayes | Theme-based Roadmapping | ProductTank Toronto
We're excited to welcome Janna Bastow and James Mayes from Mind the Product to Toronto for this month's discussion. We'll be discussing how to move to a theme-based roadmap by 2017 and learning more about Mind the Product's global product community. Janna Bastow is co-founder of ProdPad, product management software that helps product managers build a product roadmap everyone understands and solve problems flexibly. She's also co-founder of Mind the Product, a global community of product managers, and the ProductTank series of meetups. She likes to inspire great product conversations by asking: “What problem are you trying to solve?” James lives at the intersection of Product, Startupsand Talent. As one of the Co-Founders of Mind The Product, he has specific remit now for partnerships throughout the product world in order to ensure the sustainability of the events. He’s always looking for new ways to add value to the community and while not always being a product person historically, loves the opportunity to experiment! James is a dad, gadget-geek, and frequent flyer. Thanks to Shopify for hosting us!
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- 1. @ProductTankTO | #ProductTank | SPONSORED BY TWEETS AWAY! producttankto.com A MEETUP FOR PRODUCT PEOPLE, BY PRODUCT PEOPLE
- 2. #ProductTank TWEETS AWAY! @James_Mayes ProductTank as a Product or… A brief history of Mind The Product or… Seven Lessons in Product
- 5. Give your users a voice
- 6. Speak at a ProductTank! producttank@mindtheproduct.com
- 7. Let them record detailed feedback
- 8. Write for the blog! editor@mindtheproduct.com
- 9. Keep your users up to date
- 11. Consider an interactive user group
- 12. Keep the conversation going http://slack.mindtheproduct.com
- 13. Listen to feature requests and discover new sources of revenue
- 14. Need a new gig? New hire? http://jobs.mindtheproduct.com
- 15. Reflect your own passion in the product
- 18. HOW TO 🎆 Kick off 2017 🍾 with a THEME-BASED ROADMAP
- 19. I’m Janna Bastow I talk a lot about product management. Say hi at @simplybastow or janna@prodpad.com! 😃 Hello!
- 20. How’s 2016going for you?
- 21. I used to do this
- 22. Everyone else is doing it...
- 23. And it’s partly my fault 😫
- 24. What’s wrong with a timeline roadmap? 🍾
- 25. A timeline roadmap is....
- 26. … waterfall!
- 27. Over planning… or making it up
- 28. Release plan != Roadmap
- 29. What could possibly go wrong? 🍾 Made up release dates ☠️ Death marches 🍾 Mismanaged expectations 💸 Missed market opportunities 💩 Building the wrong thing 😓 Sad product managers
- 30. What’s the new way of doing it? 😎
- 31. Time horizons
- 34. “If we had a quarter for every time someone asked for a Gantt chart, we’d be rich.
- 35. ““One of the things we really appreciate about ProdPad is that there is a strong vision for what is best practice for Product Management. There were times for us where we’ve felt a bit uncomfortable about why ProdPad does things the way it does, but having adapted to ProdPad philosophies about theme-based roadmapping etc… we are much better off for it.” × Jason H, a ProdPad customer
- 36. Getting your boss on board 💪
- 37. Step One Separate the roadmap from the release plan
- 38. Step Two Wean them off the timeline format
- 39. Step Three Construct your counter- arguments
- 40. “This is the only way we can actually be Lean.” Argument One:
- 41. “We’re wasting time and duplicating work.” Argument Two:
- 42. “We don’t even know how big the team will be by then.” Argument Three:
- 43. “Let’s stop setting unrealistic expectations.” Argument Four:
- 44. “Let’s stop building the wrong things.” Argument Six:
- 45. “Let’s just try it” / “Sure, here’s the roadmap.” Argument Five:
- 46. As product manager, you communicate the vision, set priorities and ask the right questions.
- 47. As product manager, you communicate the vision, set priorities and ask the right questions. You’re NOT a glorified Gantt chart jockey!
- 48. Here’s to 2017! 🍾
- 49. 😃 Thank you! Any questions? Let’s do coffee or chat: @simplybastow // janna@prodpad.com