Season 1 - Episode 32 - Teresa Torres

Teresa Torres is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and coach. She teaches a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery that helps product teams infuse their daily product decisions with customer input. She’s coached hundreds of teams at companies of all sizes, from early-stage start-ups to global enterprises, in a variety of industries. She has taught over 12,000 product people discovery skills through the Product Talk Academy. She’s the author of the book Continuous Discovery Habits and blogs at ProductTalk.org

"How we communicate the what and when without glossing over the ambiguity and uncertainty" - Teresa Torres

Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:30 - What is the purpose of a roadmap?
05:55 - What is the purpose of a customer in a roadmap?
11:23 - Who is the typical audience?
12:25 - Who owns and maintains the roadmap?
13:50 - How do vision, strategy, objectives etc. link into the roadmap?
16:45 - How do we communicate the vision of our product?
19:00 - Does different terminology get in the way?
20:27 - What are the key elements on a roadmap?
26:56 - What tools do you use for roadmapping?
28:55 - Do you have to use only a single tool?
29:42 - What are your roadmapping best practices?
30:48 - What is the biggest mistake or anti-pattern that you see on a roadmap?
32:24 - What about a pet hate, something you really don’t like to see on a roadmap?
33:27 - Are there any roadmapping resources that you go to around roadmapping?
40:05 - Whose advice do you listen to about roadmapping?
43:05 - If you had to distill your philosophy of roadmapping be in just 1 or 2 sentences, what would it be?
46:00 - How do you help people and how can they get in touch?

Thanks for watching 👍

Be sure to check out Teresa's links...
- Linkedin: http://linkedin.com/in/teresatorres/
- Blog: ProductTalk.org
- Community: http://members.producttalk.org/
- Product Talk Academy: https://learn.producttalk.org/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/ttorres
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ProductTalkVideos
- Book: https://a.co/d/gI71ptt


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