📈Project Phase Roadmaps

Agile teams maintain their work direction to forecast their plans. Learn more about how teams build a project roadmap below.

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What are Project Phase Roadmaps?

Project Phase Roadmaps, also known as Sprint Plans, are maps of work across teams over a given timeline. They show an estimate of what work is going to get prioritized in each future iteration. They're not precise, and they change every week, but they provide a picture of short-term delivery into the future.

Here's an example:

A picture of a project roadmap that breaks down work estimates across functions. Credit: Tech Fleet.

Why are Project Phase Roadmaps Valuable?

Project roadmaps are valuable because they introduce clarity about what kind of work the team is estimated to be doing in their near future. It may always change, but it provides a visual for teams to reference when they need to know what's coming.

How are Project Phase Roadmaps Made?

Everyone across all functions should get together to make the project roadmap. They need to agree to project goals and project deliverables before breaking down the work.

They, as a self-organized team, are the ones who control the priorities depicted on the project roadmap. They consult together in what should be provided on it.

Who Maintains Project Phase Roadmaps?

The Project Manager and Product Owner functions own the project roadmap together. Project Managers are accountable for ensuring the project's on schedule, and product owners orchestrate the work required for the team to deliver the goals they want to achieve. They both work together to oversee the project roadmap and collaborate with the team on it.

Project Phase Roadmap Creation Workshop

Here's a Workshop Template your team can use before a project and during projects to outline their project roadmap.

https://www.figma.com/community/file/1475654745270475338www.figma.com

Here's a workshop template that teams can run to build and maintain the project roadmap. Credit: Tech Fleet https://www.figma.com/community/file/1475654745270475338.

When Should Teams Build Project Phase Roadmaps?

Project roadmaps are helpful to create before projects begin because they outline the resulting outcomes, and outline how the work is planned to happen each week. The team must come back to the project roadmap every week to adjust the upcoming priorities based on their work collaborating and delivering works in progress.

Key Components of Building Project Phase Roadmaps

1. Project roadmaps are comprehensive:

2. Project roadmaps are estimates:

3. Project roadmaps are maintained in coordination with the backlog:

How to Build Project Phase Roadmaps

Here are the steps:

1. Kickoff with a client

2. Outline the project goals

3. Outline the project deliverables

4. Create a project roadmap to break down work for the entire project.

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