What are the components of a product roadmap?

6 Key Things to Include in a Product Roadmap

• Product Vision. This is critical as it sets your company on the path to creating a specific product strategy.
• Strategy. This is the case you build for your product.
• Requirements. You need to get information to outline your needs.
• Product Plan.
• Markers.
• Metrics.

What is an epic roadmap?

Similar to the Feature Timeline, the Epic Roadmap supports portfolio management. It provides a calendar view of a single epic and its child features. Within each epic roadmap view, you can drill down to see details at the feature and requirements level.

What a product roadmap is not?

But then ask to see that product roadmap and what do you get? A few technical bits about what is planned, captured in a spreadsheet or bug tracking tool. This is not a roadmap. This is a collection of feature stuff — no strategic theme, impossible to understand how the work ties into the company’s goals.

Why do roadmaps fail?

The roadmap is just a list of features. This might be one of the most common reasons product roadmaps fail: product managers mistakenly assume the roadmap should just be a list of the features and other details they want to be included in a product.

What are the key characteristics of a product roadmap?

As we have stated above, the key characteristics of a roadmap are that it is: 1 A high-level plan, defining an overarching strategic objective and capturing the major steps planned for achieving… 2 A communication tool that helps communicate the product’s strategy. More

How to organize your product roadmap?

Yet another way to arrange your product roadmap is to group various components of the project (stories, epics, teams) according to color-coded bars or columns (or other elements).

What is a roadmap and why do you need one?

It also serves as a communication tool, a high-level document that helps articulate strategic thinking—the why—behind both the goal and the plan for getting there. Although we at ProductPlan generally discuss the roadmap as a strategic tool for guiding the development of products, it can be used for all types of strategic initiatives.

Can the roadmap be used for all strategic initiatives?

Although we at ProductPlan generally discuss the roadmap as a strategic tool for guiding the development of products, it can be used for all types of strategic initiatives. Indeed, businesses all over the world use our web-based roadmap software to create their organizations’ marketing plan, IT strategy , and others.