Category: Agile

Planning your Product Rollout is crucial. You need to design the workstreams, and put project controls in place to be sure your rollout stays on track.

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You can see our ready-made, tried-and-tested Rollout Plan Template here.

How to Plan your Product Rollout

Define “Success” – Your Rollout Objectives & KPIs

1. What does success look like? – you must document this with measurable success criteria.
2. Once you have this, you can identify some points in the rollout when you expect to be able to measure the “Performance” of the rollout.
3. You can record these as Milestones, and as KPIs to focus the team on.

Understand your Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies

1. In order to ensure the best possible rollout, you to understand what might affect your success negatively, and manage each of these factors.
2. In project management terms, this is your RAID log, and includes documenting and managing your:
   1. Risks
   2. Assumptions
   3. Issues
   4. Dependencies
   5. View RAID templates here
3. Track, mitigate and manage your RAID items through the Rollout process

Define your Phases & Timeline

1. With the above points in mind, set your timeline for the Rollout.
2. Base the timeline on a realistic and achievable timescale, and with your RAID items in mind.
3. If it makes sense to the whole project, split your timeline into Phases, and name them

Define your Milestones

1. Along with your KPI points, set milestones so that you can monitor project progress
2. Be sure to get regular Status Updates, and ensure the wider team and stakeholders get Status Reports

Set out your Workstreams & Project Activities

1. In Agile projects, and in larger Programmes, your team and activities should be arranged in Workstreams
2. Each Workstream should represent a team, or a particular area of delivery; e.g. “HR”, “DEV”, “CATERING”, “FINANCE”
3. Plan the project activities, and the KPIs out into these workstreams, along the timeline
4. Ensure the Workstream participants have contributed, and helped form each workstream plan

Communicate your Rollout Plan!

1. Agree the Timeline, Workstream, KPI and Activity plans with your team
2. Create a Rollout Plan Presentation, with your team
3. Present to all teams and stakeholders
4. Give your team and Stakeholders Status Reports frequently throughout the Rollout

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Business Documents UK Rollout Templates

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