Components

Key parts to roadmaps (1, pg 150)

• The theme
• Hypothesis
• Goals and success metrics
• Stage of development
  • Experiment = is the problem worth solving? Problem Exploration and Solution Exploration phase (no code)
  • Alpha = is the solution desirable? Minimum feature set for a robust solution experiment, in code, for a small set of users
  • Beta = is the solution scalable? Solution is available to more people (not all) to test technical abilities of scaling.
  • Generally Available (GA) = solution is available to all and sales team can start openly talking about it
• Any important milestones

Further Reading

• C. Todd Lombardo and Bruce McCarthy’s book – Product Roadmap Relaunched (1, pg 150)

References

1. Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri