Project Roadmaps

With Projectplace project roadmap software, you generate clear roadmaps that help you:

• Communicate your goals crisply and concisely
• Use visual roadmaps to illustrate your plans and objectives
• Demonstrate projects clearly along with their timeline
• Call out what will be delivered, when
• Get buy-in from teams, management, and other stakeholders

Projectplace roadmap planning can be extended to all your activities. It is perfect for project roadmaps, product roadmaps, campaign roadmaps: virtually any activity that requires team effort over an extended period will benefit from this high-level planning. And it’s easy to get started!

Break down your work into Work Packages to simplify the building of your roadmap, and to plan and visualize multiple streams of work and track their progress.

A Work Package is a bucket of work items that share the same category. How you define your Work Packages depends upon how you want to set up your plan: this is a completely flexible approach that lends itself to your company, team, and project.

For example, if you want to set up your plan as a:

• Product Roadmap: each Work Package could be a product development team, responsible for performing work in agile sprints.
• Marketing Campaign: use Work Packages to plan thematically, like into themes of Video, Social Media, and Events.

Projectplace makes it easy to use project roadmaps. Get started with a few simple clicks in the Roadmaps workspace, then specify:

• Start and end dates for the timeline
• Key deliverables and milestone dates
• Dependencies
• Areas of high risk

Projectplace also enables you to:

• Manage and mitigate risk by color-coding activities of concern and providing text commentary. This offers an easy-to-spot visual cue for anyone viewing the roadmap.
• Select and update date ranges when change happens, or move a work activity from one Work Package to another. Immediately see the impact upon the timeline, deliverables, milestones, and dependencies, so you can make an informed decision.
• Attach documents and files to activities. For example, for a product roadmap, a customer spec document may be vital for many team members; for a marketing campaign, the post-mortem of the previous year’s campaign could be important information.
• Connect activities on the project roadmap to kanban boards, creating an executable environment for team members to get the work done.
• Set activities to “Done” once teams have completed them, to show any stakeholder that the work is being accomplished.
• Build a roadmap template from your current roadmap to enable you and others to reuse what you have built.
• Comment on the roadmap and the work teams are doing using the Projectplace collaboration capabilities, including the instant messaging features and the conversation boards.