Creating a Strategic Roadmap for AI Integration
Explore how to create a strategic roadmap for transitioning to an AI product by aligning vision, establishing goals collaboratively, and developing a roadmap based on the agreed-upon strategy.
By now, we’ve brainstormed potential ideas. We’ve taken an inventory of our data, as well as the insights that can come from our competition and greater market, and we’re finally able to come to the drawing board and build a product strategy that will reflect the next major era of our product. Going from a traditional software product to an AI product is no small feat, and it should be treated as a massive overhaul of the product because so much of how we build, what we build, and how we store, collect, and use data will be majorly renovated.
Aligning strategy and roadmap
Building a product strategy will directly influence our product roadmap, and this will help us realize which parts of our product will need to transform first to succeed in the actualization of our product’s AI transformation and commercial success. However, there’s a big difference between creating a product strategy that fits in with our product’s new value system and creating a product roadmap that reflects that strategy. The roadmap is a proposed timeline of major milestones and features that will be built in the year ahead. The roadmap should not come before our product strategy is agreed upon by our key stakeholders. The roadmap is derived from this strategy and not the other way around.
Aligning vision, goals, and stakeholders
We don’t build what we can and hope for the best. We agree on what to build using the collective knowledge and wisdom we’ve gathered about our product and how to best go to market with AI capabilities. We will cover the product strategy process and a proposed list of how to develop a product strategy that works for all our major stakeholders later.
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