Roadmap Health
Indicator - Roadmap Health
The Roadmap provides guidance on the priorities for creating features in the product. It is aligned with the Vision and Purpose of the product. It shows the current view of how the work of the teams will be ranked and ordered to deliver the best value to our customers and colleagues. The set of Roadmap items in the most immediate time-frame and how they are ordered guides the content and ordering of work in the Product Backlog.
Considerations
The Roadmap typically defines 2 or more time-frames - for example Now, Next, and Later. The Product Owner and the team collaborate to ensure that there is sufficient engineering capability to deliver the content of the most immediate time-frame (the “Now” in Now, Next and Later).
The content of the roadmap is regularly negotiated with key stakeholders and evolves in response to changing business priorities described by the stakeholders. In the investment or budgeting process, the Roadmap is used as the basis for identifying forthcoming work and to assess the potential value of that work.
Levels
Green
The Roadmap Is Healthy
The Roadmap is defined, reflects the vision and purpose of the product and is presented in a format negotiated with the key stakeholders of the product. The Roadmap is used as the basis for assessing and measuring the delivery of value in the Investment or Budget review process.
The Roadmap can be accessed by, and is actively shared with, stakeholders.
The content of the roadmap is negotiated regularly with key stakeholders and evolves in response to changing business priorities.
Amber
The Roadmap Is Not Completely Healthy
The Roadmap is defined, reflects the vision and purpose of the product but is not presented in an agreed format. This means that the Roadmap cannot easily be used as the basis for assessing and measuring the delivery of value in the Investment or Budget Review process.
The Roadmap can be accessed by stakeholders. The lack of an agreed format may impede our ability to share the Roadmap effectively.
The content of the roadmap is negotiated regularly with key stakeholders and evolves in response to changing business priorities.
Red
The Roadmap is Unhealthy
There is no current and effective Roadmap that is being actively maintained.
Where a Roadmap exists, there is little or no evidence that its content is being shared with stakeholders.
The Is little or no evidence of the content of the Roadmap being negotiated with key stakeholders. There is no evidence of the Roadmap evolving In response to changing business priorities.