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Roadmap Evolution and Adaptive Planning Questions

How to build flexibility into roadmaps, manage changing priorities and market conditions, handle urgent requests without disrupting plans, and evolve roadmaps as new information emerges.

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You're evaluating moving from a feature-based roadmap to an outcome-based roadmap. Design a phased implementation plan across PMs, engineering, and go-to-market teams: include pilot experiments, success metrics, governance changes, and how to manage mixed portfolios during the transition.
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What is a 'buffer' or 'slack' in roadmap planning? Explain how you would size and justify a buffer for a quarter-long roadmap in a mid-stage product organization, including the inputs you would use to choose the buffer percentage.
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As a Product Manager at a SaaS startup, explain what an 'adaptive roadmap' or 'evolving roadmap' is. Describe its key characteristics, why teams prefer it over a fixed roadmap, three practical benefits, and one common pitfall to watch for when adopting this approach.
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Describe a repeatable quarterly roadmap review process you would run with executives and cross-functional leads. Specify required artifacts (for example, roadmap, metrics dashboard), the cadence and agenda, decisions to be made, and the escalation path when conflicts arise.
EasyTechnical
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Name three prioritization frameworks (for example, RICE, MoSCoW, Kano). For each framework provide a one-line description and one specific situation in which you would choose that framework over others.

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