article thumbnail

Innovation Roadmaps: What Are They Good For, Anyway?

Innovation Excellence

At the heart, product roadmaps show the major milestones of a project’s lifecycle. Maintaining Product Roadmaps is a useful discipline in just about any organization that has more than one product. But aside from capturing product timelines, what good are they?

Roadmap 76
article thumbnail

Bringing The Business Along

Innov8rs

Next, we’ll explore some best practices that can help you bring the business along and develop leaders’ confidence more quickly, increasing the chances of success of your innovation projects and/or ventures. By starting small and framing any innovation project as an experiment. Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.’s

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Unleash Your Visual Superpower!

Boxes and Arrows

We all sketch before we design, but too often the sketches go in a drawer when the project starts, often never to be seen again. One team I’ve worked with helps bridge this gap on strategic projects by maintaining an “experience roadmap.” The roadmap is a collection of prototypes showing what each release will look like.

article thumbnail

Stop Building Products No One Wants: How to Experiment Your Way to Success

Moves the Needle

In many cases, they also act as the voice of the customer to make sure that new products are aligned with what the customer wants. Their key responsibilities are to make sure that must-have features are prioritized, that project milestones are being hit, and that the project is staying on budget.

article thumbnail

The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. No time is considered for design of the overall framework. Scrum teams jump into feature releases. They’re building inside out instead of outside in or holistically.”.

Agile 111
article thumbnail

Top 10 Product Development and Innovation Management Predictions for 2024

Planview

The variety of success indicators will only grow and get more diverse, with more organizations incorporating circular economy principles into their product innovation practices, emphasizing product reuse, recycling, and refurbishment to drive resource efficiency and minimize waste.