Static roadmaps are often unengaging, quickly out of date and difficult to publish to a wider audience in a way that everyone understands them. A lack of common roadmapping structure can result in inconsistent reporting and clarity on progress or problems.
Without a strategic view of the roadmap, stakeholders can’t easily see the gaps in technology, resources or funding and it's difficult for leadership or teams to understand or track the impact of their decisions because relationships or interdependencies can't be easily visualized.
With no real time mechanism for employees to feedback on the strategy, the static roadmap becomes obsolete and can’t operate in an agile way.
By using a digital interactive roadmap with living content, ideas and insights, strategic decisions can be communicated easily and your roadmap can remain collaborative, agile, and adaptive to market conditions, rather than stuck in static documents.
A digital product roadmap ties the day-to-day work of product teams to the company’s vision for both the product and the wider business. Sharing and visualizing your product roadmap, will encourage internal transparency and assist the decision making process, as managers can clearly identify gaps in the product strategy.
Once the roadmap is visible, it may spark open conversations between stakeholders – resulting in a more collaborative organizational culture. Stakeholders gain a visual tool to see how a product is progressing and understand quickly how changes to the priority of one feature can impact other planned features and updates.
Roadmapping helps managers arrive at a clear, shared vision of an organization’s future and understand the transformational steps needed to get there. From the initial stages of development to the presentation itself, SharpCloud can cover the entire roadmapping process with ease.
SharpCloud has the design capabilities to clearly visualize your data and dynamic movement that rivals mainstream presentation software.
Take stakeholders on a journey through your roadmap with customizable data views and highlight key implementation issues, such as new system capabilities, project milestones, resources, and release plans. You can even dive deeper into the roadmap as questions arise or update data on the fly – all while giving your presentation.
Key benefits of a digital roadmap
Using data-driven visual software, leadership and teams can achieve benefits around transparency, collaboration and co-creation. Strategic roadmaps can be a shared focal point of all discussions and stakeholder presentations and actions and decisions can be easily tracked and monitored.