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Notes on product management and roadmaps
News from RightBuild, and practical ideas for product managers who want to spend less time on admin and more time on product.
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Zero-Based Roadmapping: Making Every Product Investment Earn Its Place
Most roadmaps are inherited, not justified. Borrow zero-based budgeting from finance, split capacity into four buckets, and make every item earn its place.
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Showing the Value of a Request: How to Prioritize When Everything Feels Urgent
Sales, customers, leadership and competitors all want something different, and they all want it next. Here is how to compare requests fairly and show the value of each one.
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Stop chasing, start running the operation
Product ops was meant to be about building the system, not chasing people for updates. The Catch-up report sends the nudges for you.
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The job nobody can hold in their head
Product management is forty small things arriving at once, through different doors. The Catch-up report turns them into one list to start your day.
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Stop Shipping Features Nobody Cares About: The Product Manager’s Guide to Defending the "Why"
Roadmaps easily become wish lists. Here is how to shift the conversation from what we are building to why it matters, without alienating your stakeholders.
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Introducing RightBuild: the roadmap that explains itself
Plans change. The work that change creates should not eat your week. Today we are launching RightBuild to take that work away.
New to a term? See the product management glossary.
Spend the week on product, not admin
Create a Workspace on the Starter plan and let RightBuild keep the roadmap current while you run the product.
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