We're kicking off the new season of the DevDiscuss podcast with a topic one could say is near and dear to my heart — and very relevant to all of us here on DEV.
We're talking Forem — the open-source software that powers DEV and a growing number of online communities interested in transparency, accessibility, and authentic connection.
More specifically, this episode is dedicated to the Forem product roadmap — the plan we're following to accomplish critical goals as a community-building tool and business. Our product roadmap is two things in one: a 10 thousand foot view to help us arrive at the bigger picture and a 50-foot view to help us identify the granular details required to make it all happen.
In this episode, I was joined by two brilliant guests from the Forem team...
- Lisa Sy, Lead Product Designer
- Vaidehi Joshi, Lead Software Engineer
@lisasy, @vaidehijoshi, and I also dove into the differences between a product roadmap, vision, and strategy — and talked about the various audiences for this roadmap.
Whether you are active in our codebase or you're brand new to DEV, I hope that this episode helps you contextualize where Forem is headed and how your participation here is helping us drive the future of connection online.
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Acknowledgements
- @levisharpe for producing & mixing the show
- Our season five sponsors: CockroachDB, Cloudways, Scout APM & Rudderstack!
Top comments (6)
I've had a little sneak peak at the road map, some very exciting things coming ☺️
I'm looking forward to it
Congrats on Season 5! 👍😉
Congrats!! Excited to listen in!
Just waiting on that internal forem invite 😉
This is such a good listen. Especially when you get your question included 😎🎉
So looking forward to roadmap, as a creator, it all sounds fabulous.
i thought it was ben awad , but anyways noice