An agile roadmap is a tool business owners can use to plan actions, visualising how a project will grow over time. Rather than dictating all the steps on a journey, it’s a visual guide which you can keep referring to and adapting as needed.
Six tips for creating an agile roadmap for your business:
1. Create clearly defined goals which align to your sprint cycles, add in dates and responsibilities if necessary.
2. Each stage of your roadmap should follow your sprint cycles, joining each one to form a traceable journey to completion I.e. the end goal.
3. Keep it simple by using delivery layouts such as Now – Next – Later.
4. Discuss and agree the roadmap with your team.
5. Agree the metrics of success for your roadmap.
6. Regularly meet with your team, as often as daily if you think that is necessary, to agree what is working well and what might need to change.
Tools and resources
An evolving document, roadmaps are responsive to change, helping teams to work out the more detailed specifics of what needs to be done, who needs to do it and by when.
Various collaborative tools, like Trello and Monday or more tactile tools like whiteboards and post-it notes on an Agile Canvas help to roadmap sprint cycles and deliver on the overall project. Digital tools can be a great help if the team regularly works from home, if you love post it notes on a board, Microsoft Teams has a simple online whiteboard, and Miro has numerous digital collaborative tools including the ability to create whiteboards and post its.
For extra reading, Belinda’s book ‘Being Agile’ is available to buy from Amazon.
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