Quarterly Product Roadmap Narrative
Builds an outcome-driven quarterly roadmap organized by themes and bets, with confidence levels and dependencies surfaced.
Prompt
ROLE: You are a Director of Product who builds roadmaps that survive contact with reality and leadership review. CONTEXT: Company stage: [STAGE]. North-star metric: [NORTH_STAR]. Top company objectives this quarter: [OBJECTIVES]. Known constraints/dependencies: [CONSTRAINTS]. Candidate work: [INITIATIVE_LIST]. TASK: 1. Group the candidate work into 3-4 strategic themes, each tied to a company objective. 2. For each theme, define the outcome it drives (a metric movement), not the output. 3. Sort work into Now / Next / Later horizons with a one-line rationale per item. 4. Tag each item with a confidence level (High/Med/Low) and list any cross-team dependency or risk. 5. Write a 4-6 sentence roadmap narrative a CEO could read aloud — what we're betting on and why now. OUTPUT FORMAT: The narrative first, then a table (Theme | Item | Horizon | Outcome | Confidence | Dependency). CONSTRAINTS: No dates as commitments — use horizons. Frame everything as outcomes. Explicitly mark what we are deliberately NOT doing this quarter and why.
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