24: Why You Should Run Your Business Without Roadmaps

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- No roadmaps. No public launch dates. That’s how our product team works at Drift. It’s how David did things at HubSpot, and Performable, and all the way back. But the "product roadmap” is one of the most essential parts of any product organizations. How many times have you heard “well let’s get it on the roadmap” or “its on the roadmap for Q3.” So this week on Seeking Wisdom, we’re talking about how you can run your business without product roadmaps and public launch dates. Hint: it all comes back to being customer driven. Catch all of the previous episodes of Seeking Wisdom on Medium now! seekingwisdom.io Make sure you subscribe to Seeking Wisdom on your favorite podcast app so you never miss a new episode :) Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Seeking Wisdom, we're going to talk about one of your favorite topics.
0:06.4	What's that?
0:07.0	Roadmaps.
0:08.1	Oh, no.
0:24.5	So this was something we were kicking around for an idea.
0:31.1	And a question that comes up all the time is people ask you about product teams.
0:32.8	Talk about it here at Drifts.
0:37.3	Something that you talked about a lot at HubSpot too is that there's no public roadmap.
0:40.9	And a roadmap is something that is so historical,
0:44.6	it's so essential to like the life of a product team and an engineering organization.
0:47.5	And you actually started with a story.
0:49.3	Talk about how last week you met with a bunch of execs
0:52.1	from another company.
0:53.0	So maybe let's use that story to kick off this.
0:55.6	Sure.
0:55.9	I met with an exact CEO and a couple of execs from another company here in Cambridge.
1:02.4	And, you know, we were talking, they were asking questions about how they should organize
1:06.4	their product organization and what have I done and what has worked and kind of best practice around
1:11.6	it. And we finally got to a part towards the end where, you know, we were talking about,
1:16.7	you know, my belief and not having public roadmaps and kind of working towards release dates,
1:24.2	especially public release states. There are times when you have those kind of things internally, but the idea of a public
1:31.1	roadmap or public release date shouldn't exist.
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