Workshop Your Roadmap: Building Out A Product Roadmap in Real-Time | Startup Boston Week 2020

Effective Roadmap Building Techniques 🚀 Workshops are a powerful tool for building roadmaps and turning boring meetings into engaging and productive sessions. 🤝 It's important to set the tone from the beginning and be proactive and collaborative in defining the roadmap. 💡 Every good roadmap should have a clear objective, just like a resume at the top stating what you are trying to achieve. 💡 Encourage stakeholders to come with data and insight, not just wishful thinking, when building a product roadmap. 💡 Building a product without understanding the real needs of the users can lead to failure, even if it seems awesome to the team. 💡 Customer validation is crucial - "If someone can't defend why they want to use it, that's really important as well." 🍎 Adding humor, personality, and authenticity to a presentation can make it more relatable and impactful. 💡 A founder's first hire should be a product manager, not an engineer, to avoid getting too emotionally attached to the product. Personal and Professional Development for Product Managers 🧠 Emotional intelligence is what takes product managers from good to awesome, not just analytical skills. 🚀 Building an awesome product starts with building an awesome you, focusing on personal skills and growth.