Roadmap guides
Ten short guides on the parts no tool does for you: what goes on a roadmap, how to present and share it, and how to keep it current. Each one is a judgement call rather than a feature, and the advice applies whatever you maintain the roadmap in.
- Internal vs external roadmapDifferent documents, not one with columns hidden. What to rewrite before the roadmap goes outside.
- How to keep a roadmap up to dateStaleness is a copies problem, not a discipline problem. What to change so the update happens.
- How to present a roadmap to executivesWhat to open with, what to hide, and how to keep the dependency question from taking the meeting.
- Should you have a public roadmapThe upkeep is the real cost, the three conditions that justify it, and when to take it down.
- Roadmap review meetingBring the diff and the decisions, not the board, and cancel the month there is nothing to decide.
- Roadmap slides in PowerPointDraw it once, export at slide size, re-export. Why hand-drawn boxes always go out of date.
- Roadmap vs project planDifferent units, different revision rules, and how to tell which one is being asked for.
- Roadmap without datesSequence and horizon instead of dates, which commitments keep theirs, and why the first bucket fails.
- How to share a product roadmapImage, file or live link. Each gets a different reply, so pick by what you want back.
- What to include in a product roadmapOne test for every item, plus the three things that belong on no roadmap outside the squad.
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