RachellethePM Summaries

In my blog, I summarize valuable information from books pertaining to product management.
Thoughts & opinions are my own.

Summaries per Book

Newest Summaries

  • Product Roadmaps Relaunched, Chapter 7 – Prioritizing — With Science!

    The following blog post summarizes the seventh chapter of the Product Roadmaps Relaunched book by C. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan, and Michael Connors. Published on November 28, 2017. The seventh chapter is reviewed and summarized using my best judgment of the most essential information. Product teams often risk getting sidetracked and turning into…

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  • Product Roadmaps Relaunched, Chapter 6 – Deepening Your Roadmap

    On a theme-based roadmap, you can include additional information to your themes, subthemes, customer needs and system needs. Even though your roadmap is important and useful without this additional information, including some of these pieces may help sell and align key stakeholders on your roadmap.

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  • Product Roadmaps Relaunched, Chapter 5 – Uncovering Customer Needs Through Themes

    It is easy to fall into the trap of focusing your roadmap on solutions or features. But, as previously explained in this book, you’re better off focusing on customer needs or themes. This is because focusing on customer needs provides you with two things. Firstly, the confidence that you truly understand your customer and their…

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