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When Strategy Breaks: How AI Helps Product Teams Prioritize, Plan, and Adapt

Jeremy Hornby

Most roadmaps do not fail from bad ideas. They fail when hidden assumptions go untested and planning becomes guesswork.

Product leaders today are expected to respond to shifting priorities, cross-functional pressures, and market instability without losing focus. That is why the second article in our Product + AI: The 8 Zones of Impact series turns to a core leadership challenge: strategy and planning.

🧠 In Part 2: Prioritization, Tradeoffs, and Scenario Planning

AI isn’t just another roadmap tool. It changes how teams surface tradeoffs, build rationale, and plan with optionality. But only if your systems are ready for it.

In this new Roadmap to Mastery article, we explore:

  • How AI exposes silent misalignments in prioritization
  • Why scenario planning improves decision-making before reality forces your hand
  • What it takes to build plans that don’t break the moment something shifts
  • A case study from a media company that cut roadmap chaos by 40% using AI-assisted planning

📍 What You’ll Learn

This article delivers:

  • Strategies to strengthen roadmap clarity with fewer meetings and less politics
  • Tools to link initiatives directly to strategic goals, not stakeholder pressure
  • Signs your team is drifting and what AI can surface before it’s too late
  • Planning rhythms that help PMs and CPOs shift from reactive to resilient

Whether you are working on your roadmap next week or months from now, the best time to strengthen your planning system is before the cracks show. Get the frameworks, case studies, and playbooks in this exclusive Roadmap to Mastery series so you can make better bets under pressure.

🧭 Read the Full Article

🔒 Part 2 of 4:

How AI Strengthens Strategy and Planning in Product Teams
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