Roadmapping
Roadmaps, release plans and communicating them to stakeholders.
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- Build an outcome roadmap
Builds a now, next, later roadmap organised by outcomes rather than features, showing the bets, evidence and confidence behind each and what is deliberately left off.
- Build a user story map
Builds a user story map with a backbone of user activities and tasks, a walking skeleton and release slices tied to outcomes, plus the questions to settle before planning.
- Plan a release
Builds a release plan with scope per release, dependencies, milestones, a feature-flag rollout strategy, go or no-go checks, a scope-cut order and a communications timeline.
- Plan stakeholder alignment
Maps stakeholders for a product initiative by influence and interest, with their concerns and decision roles, and builds a sequenced alignment plan with messages and meetings.
- Prioritize features
Prioritises a backlog with RICE, ICE, Kano or MoSCoW, shows every score and assumption, and tests how sensitive the ranking is to uncertain estimates. Use before roadmap planning.
- Push back on a roadmap request
Drafts a reply to a stakeholder's urgent feature request that acknowledges the need, shows the trade-off against current priorities and offers a real path or alternative without burning bridges.
- Prepare quarterly planning
Prepares a product team's quarterly plan with measurable outcomes, candidate bets scored with confidence, a capacity check, cross-team dependencies and a one-page plan for leadership review.
- Write a roadmap update
Writes a stakeholder update on roadmap changes that says what moved, why, what was traded off and what the readers need to do, tailored to the audience. Use after replanning.