Some Industry Practice and Thoughts on Roadmaps Recently, I signed up for doing an internal talk about roadmaps, and what they are generally all about. I figured this post would be a good start to get myself into crystallizing the message up front. Keeping in mind, roadmaps are but one component in an extremely complex domain involving many sciences, so this is one of those scratching-the-surface-posts. Who's saying what out there Before we start inventing our own wheels, it's nice to review what is the state of roadmaps out there. Perhaps there is some "industry best practice" ;) So I'll begin by collecting information from the first, best sources I know about. I happen to follow a couple of product management authorities on Twitter: Melissa Perri and John Cutler . Then recently, our internal head of product recently pointed out Roman Pichler . Finally, there's the venerable Marty Cagan who I reckoned has written a thing or two about roadmaps, and that was indeed the case.…