Glossary
Roadmapping
Create successful product roadmaps that align with your business goals. Learn techniques and best practices to plan and communicate your product's future direction.
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Business Development Planning
A business development plan is a written document showcasing the business’ aims, both long-term and short-term, and how they intend to reach them.
Business Plan
A business plan is a strategic document which details the business model and key tactics for a growing business or startup. It is especially important during the tricky first few years, or whilst seeking external investment.
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Cloud Adoption Roadmap
A cloud adoption roadmap is a tool to help businesses determine where they stand with cloud adoption today, and to act as a tool in their journey to full cloud adoption.
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Digital Roadmap
A digital roadmap is a blueprint that maps out the processes and technologies needed to move your business from its current state to a more optimized future version in line with your objectives.
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Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP)
Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) is a process by which organizations define how IT and information will be used in a business to achieve its goals.
Enterprise Architecture Roadmap
An enterprise architecture roadmap is a high-level overview of the direction a company's IT plans and projects will take over time.
eCommerce Roadmap
An eCommerce roadmap is a tool designed to organize the various systems and tools used by eCommerce businesses — putting teams back in control of the workflow.
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Feature Roadmap
Feature roadmaps keep track of the evolution and delivery of a product's important features. These roadmaps are intended to inform team members and external stakeholders about the direction and status of the feature development.
Feature-less Roadmap
A Feature-less Roadmap provides software development teams with a high-level view of the strategy behind the product they’re developing. It focuses on the “why” of a product as opposed to the “how”.
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HR Roadmap
HR Roadmaps are a visual tool used to plan HR strategies.
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Idea Roadmap
Ideas roadmaps are a visual tool used to manage and prioritize ideas.
Innovation Roadmap
An innovation roadmap is designed to visualize the steps and goals required for a team to achieve an innovation project.
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Lean Roadmap
Lean roadmaps help teams better communicate their intentions and development cadence.
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Multi-Product Roadmap
A multi-product roadmap is a powerful tool for multiple-product organizations. It simplifies product portfolio planning, interdepartmental collaboration, and strategic alignment.
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OKR Roadmap
While OKRs and roadmaps share some common elements, they’re really quite different methods of tracking product development. But is there room for both?
Operational Roadmap
An operational roadmap is a long-term plan that summarizes a team or department’s intended activities and operations.
Opportunity Solution Tree (OST)
An Opportunity Solution Tree, or OST, is a diagrammatic tool designed to simplify the product discovery process.
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Product Marketing Launch Plan
A product marketing launch plan is an action plan used when launching a product to market.
Product Objectives
Product Objectives are defined results you're working to attain for your consumers, product, or business and are clear, quantifiable, and inspirational goals.
Product Placement
Product placement is an advertising strategy that uses a brand’s product in a large medium. It’s associated with the film and TV industry where brands will offer money in order to get their product on screen.
Product Roadmap
Product roadmaps the vision and strategic objectives for a product over time. They give development teams and stakeholders a ‘single source of truth’ that captures all the steps needed to deliver against objectives.
Product Roadmapping Process
The product roadmapping process is the process of creating a visual summary of the vision and direction of your product offer that serves as an executive guide for your product development team.
Product Service Management
Product service management is the process of evaluating and enhancing a product to provide the best customer or user experience.
Program Epic
A program epic is a work effort constrained to a single release train, delivered by multiple teams, and spanning multiple Program Increment (PI) iterations.
Program Roadmap
A program roadmap is a high-level illustration of the direction of a product management program. It is a communication tool designed by a program manager and product team to describe and depict the program's lifespan, including its many phases and goals.
Project Map
When it comes to seeing a project through to completion, there are a lot of pieces to juggle along the way. That's where a project map can be a big help, allowing you to visualize and organize your work as you go.
Project Roadmap
A project roadmap is a visual overview capturing all critical elements of a project, from kickoff to final delivery.
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Release Demo
A release demo shows the work, and the progress of a project, at the end of each iteration.
Release Notes
A report that is released with a new product, a new version of a product, or an update to a product.
Release Plan
A document used to record the features contained in an upcoming release.
Release Roadmap
Release roadmaps outline features, new improvements, and bug fixes set to be launched in an upcoming release cycle.
Roadmap
A roadmap is a high-level strategic overview of a significant business initiative. Roadmaps are typically used to manage the development of a new product or the execution of a company-wide project.
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Scrumban
Scrumban is a combination of Scrum and Kanban. By combining the two, teams can visualize the organizational aspects of Scrum while benefiting from the flexibility of Kanban. It's a less rigid model that brings out the best in both workflows.
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Theme-based Roadmap
A theme-based roadmap visualizes a team’s goals and plans into strategic theme, so that the highest priority tasks can be tackled first.
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