Product roadmap

A product roadmap is a plan of action for how a product will be introduced and evolved over time. It is developed by the product owner, an Agile role responsible for managing the product backlog and feature set. The product roadmap is a high-level strategic view of the series of delivered systems mapped to capabilities and customer needs. The product roadmap takes into account the market trajectories, value propositions, and engineering constraints. It is ultimately expressed as a set of initiatives and capabilities delivered over time.

Purpose

The purpose of the product roadmap is to plan and to provide visibility to the release of capabilities to customers over time. The roadmap is initially developed in iteration 0, but as in all things Agile, the roadmap is updated over time. A typical roadmap has a 12-24 month planning horizon, but for long-lived systems, the horizon may be much longer.

Inputs and preconditions

A product vision has been established...