A product roadmap is a document that acts as the singular authority for information on a product's progress, including roles and timelines for all related teams and stakeholders. It aggregates all product information from every team involved in the development project, providing a single source of truth for updated information. The key components of a product roadmap include product features, user stories, epics, product releases, initiatives, goals, timelines, and capacity planning. A well-conceived product roadmap has several benefits, including improved goal alignment, transparency about timelines and progress toward milestones, more effective product planning, clear translation of product strategy, creation of a single source of truth, streamlined development strategy, and clear outlining of priorities to fend off non-outcome-driven tasks. The product manager is responsible for building, maintaining, and facilitating the product roadmap, and they must interact with other departments throughout the company to build a roadmap that aligns with greater company goals. To create a product roadmap, one must identify the product strategy, gather stakeholder perspectives, determine product goals and features, define feature priorities, match goals with releases, set a timeline, and apply project management frameworks like Agile if necessary. There are seven types of product roadmaps, including theme roadmaps, product portfolio roadmaps, releases x features roadmaps, capacity roadmaps, task management roadmaps, now/next/later roadmaps, and product vision roadmaps, each with its own templates to help guide the process. Finally, presenting a product roadmap effectively requires tailoring it to the audience, mapping back to company goals, telling a story, showing proof, making it airtight, being realistic, and keeping the roadmap concise.