From Lombardo, C. Todd,McCarthy, Bruce,Ryan, Evan,Connors, Michael. Product Roadmaps Relaunched (pp. 156-159):
- Your, or someone else’s, gut
- Analyst opinions
- Popularity
- "We truly believe that outsourcing your product strategy to your customers is a mistake in nearly all situations."
- Sales requests
- Support requests
- Competitive me-too features
- "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."