Would you ever walk into a stakeholder meeting to present your roadmap without first gathering customer data to support your strategy and vision? Doing so would not only undermine your ability to gain approval for your plan, it might even get you fired. Yet many product managers will simply lay out their plans without explaining why these are not only good ideas but ones backed up by thorough research and analysis. This approach can jeopardize stakeholder support for a roadmap, which then turns every other product decision into a battle of wills instead of an even-handed assessment of the facts. This is one of many pitfalls that can torpedo a product roadmap presentation. To smooth out your path to stakeholder buy-in, here are five tips to facilitate alignment with your roadmap.