Introducing the Product Roadmap Wall
Building alignment and buy-in at all levels of your organization
Implementing a product roadmap in an Agile way can be tough. A roadmap is often a written document that isn’t easily accessible, which can lead to a variety of issues. A good agile roadmap should allow for agile practices such as daily standups and planning. They should also create high visibility and transparency, operate with low overhead, and provide the right information to the right people at the right time.
In this talk, Chris will share how he’s implemented a “roadmap wall.” He’ll show how to incorporate the roadmap components into a highly visible and actionable format. The roadmap wall has multiple benefits and will:
- give leadership and executives visibility into how their business objectives influence features, story backlogs, and priorities
- leverage delivery teams to understand technical feasibility tradeoffs
- show the options available to satisfy competing customer needs
- demonstrate a clear picture of how business objectives link to customer needs
- provide near real-time information for decision making
To realize these benefits, we’ll need to leverage a variety of familiar tools. Chris will show you how to use a kanban system to manage business objectives and OKRs, utilize priority queues, and incorporate WIP limits. You’ll learn how using an opportunity canvas and opportunity solution tree clarifies the customer’s need when roadmapping. He’ll show you a new way to use story maps when detailing features, improving communication and planning.
In the end, you’ll walk away with a new method for visualizing your product roadmap, giving your team better decision-making information.
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Time:
3:30PM Registration/Food/Drinks
4:00PM Presentation Begins
Location:
SEP's Product Design Studio
836 S. Rangeline Road
Carmel, IN 46032