Lenny Distilled

Metrics vs. roadmaps: Pick your religion

Strategy → Roadmaps & Planning

Metrics are going to be subordinate to the calendar. So we're going to have a roadmap. It's going to be a two-year roadmap.

Brian CheskyBrian Chesky's new playbook
Supporting

You can't ship something unless it's on the roadmap. So every single thing in the company, with the exception of some infrastructure projects have to be on the roadmap.

Brian CheskyBrian Chesky's new playbook
Supporting

I largely stay away from OKRs from a product perspective. I want to focus on velocity, which is just output, which is your roadmap, but they're pretty strong at more of the cross-functional side of things.

Geoff CharlesVelocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup ever
Nuanced

I have found that approach very useful during planning... 60% of our time on incrementals... 30% I want to allocate towards big new initiatives... 10% I'd like us to allocate towards stability and infrastructure.

Shreyas DoshiThe art of product management
Nuanced

I think for most teams, our roadmap for any feature team at Slack is that it's a portfolio and it's meant to be a portfolio that's diversified a couple different ways. One is you want to diversify things that are meant to be new capabilities versus making the thing you've already built a little bit better every day.

Noah WeissThe 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack's approach to product