How Problem/Opportunity templates facilitate efficient and successful decisions on your Roadmap

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1. Framing the problem: How wrongly prepared decisions and imbalanced roadmap contributions slow down value creation
2. What we want to achieve by applying the problem/opportunity template to decide on our roadmap items
3. The magic of decision gates and roadmap phases as main elements of our framework
4. Our template for problems/opportunities to download or use in Miro
5. Detailed descriptions of required deliverables for each gate and phase

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1) How wrongly prepared decisions and imbalanced roadmap contributions slow down value creation

💸 🧠 Overspending and underspending in decisions

When preparing a sufficiently educated decision you can destroy value from two simple sides: Underspending and overspending.

Underspending means that you don’t spend enough time and resources to identify and validate the problems and potential solutions. Thus, you are working on the wrong things and fail to stop unpromising projects.