From Lombardo, C. Todd,McCarthy, Bruce,Ryan, Evan,Connors, Michael. Product Roadmaps Relaunched (pp. 156-159):

  1. Your, or someone else’s, gut
  2. Analyst opinions
  3. Popularity
    1. "We truly believe that outsourcing your product strategy to your customers is a mistake in nearly all situations."
  4. Sales requests
  5. Support requests
  6. Competitive me-too features
    1. "The quickest way we’ve found to reduce the value of your product is to get into a tit-for-tat feature war with your competition."