When was the last time you had confidence in a roadmap to show you where the product could go and how the teams might take it there? Too often, teams can’t see the next set of necessary features, because the roadmap contains everything for at least five years. Can your customers depend on your roadmaps to know when to expect features? And, while some leaders want to see options, many want certainty about which feature will arrive when.
No wonder roadmaps get a bad rap. They don’t provide enough of the right information for anyone.
Instead, we have options in how we create and present roadmaps to which viewer. When we think of roadmaps as products, we can create personas. Then, we have options about which information we expose to each persona.
Learning objectives:
1. How to create a roadmap that helps the team focus on what they need to now, while offering a look-ahead to the future.
2. How to use your product’s place in the technology adoption curve to consider one of several possible customer-focused roadmaps.
3. How to show options in a rolling wave roadmap, especially if your product is full of innovation and not very predictable yet..