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Define your Product Rollout Plan

The Rollout Plan Template - Powerpoint Presentation
The Rollout plan Powerpoint Presentation

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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Powerpoint Roadmap + Dashboard

This Powerpoint Roadmap Template has 2 great Project Dashboard formats - Highlights & KPIs

This excellent Project communications tool  – the Powerpoint Roadmap + Dashboard template – shows a clear workstream project plan, and also shows current status in a handy “Dashboard” format.

Features of the Powerpoint Roadmap

  1. Timeline
  2. Milestones
  3. Workstreams
  4. Risk level Legend
  5. Dashboard (for status reporting)
  6. “On Radar”
  7. Communicates project status QUICKLY
  8. Great for Executive Communications

>> Download the Powerpoint Roadmap + Dashboard Template here

Other Powerpoint Roadmaps

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Roadmap with PEST

Visio Roadmap PEST Template - Strategic KPIs & Benefits

This Roadmap Template features a PEST factors area, where important Political, Economical, Social and Technological factors can be listed on the timeline.

Roadmap with PEST factors area
This Roadmap with PEST factors area. Click to enlarge.

This helps strategic planning by encouraging you to uncover the environmental factors will affect your projects and business.

Features of the ROADMAP with PEST:-

  1. Timeline
  2. KPI
  3. Projects
  4. PEST

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Our PEST Templates

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Roadmap Templates

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Product Roadmap Examples

Project Schedule Roadmap

The Project Schedule Roadmap has a great presentation style which matches modern infographic layout.

Product Roadmap shows Timeline, Workstreams and Dashboard
This Product Roadmap shows Timeline, Workstreams and a Project Dashboard

Product Roadmap

  1. Product Title & details
  2. Project Timeline (in quarters, and you can change this)
  3. Workstreams areas, for Marketing, Development, KPI
  4. Product Dashboard (with RAG – Red, Amber, Green): Delivery, Budget, Resource, Marcomms, Dependencies  Risks, Issues, Radar
  5. Impressive “Activity Bar” graphics

See the Product Roadmap Template.

Picture of The Product Roadmap Template, with Project Dashboard
This template features both the Product Roadmap, and the Project Dashboard

Product Roadmap with Dashboard – 2

  1. Three Workstreams
  2. Product activities, with a RAG status
    1. Red – high risk
    2. Amber – medium risk
    3. Green – all ok
  3. Timeline
  4. Milestones on the timeline
  5. A project dashboard for project status
    1. Successes
    2. Upcoming releases
    3. Live risks
    4. Blockages
    5. Caveats

See the Product Roadmap Template with Dashboard 2.

The Agile Roadmap shows iterations alongside the Roadmap

Agile Product Roadmap

The Agile Product Roadmap format is a Powerpoint template that has slides for

  1. Agile Iterations Roadmap
  2. Agile Roadmap with Dashboard
  3. Agile Theme Summary Roadmap
  4. Agile Roadmap 2-Year Summary

These templates are used in scenarios when a roadmap is required for stakeholder communications, and when it needs to be aligned with multiple Agile delivery workstreams.

View the Agile Product Roadmap.

Roadmap Template - showing KPI, STATE, Projects, PEST factors
This Roadmap Template shows KPI, STATE, Projects, PEST factors

Product Roadmap with PEST factors

This Roadmap displays

  1. Business Change – START and TARGET STATEs
  2. KPI – Revenue and Market Share
  3. Projects & Initiatives
  4. PEST factors; Political, Economical, Social, Technological.

View the Roadmap Template (also features PEST area).

Download the Roadmap Template with Resources and Budget
This Roadmap with Resources and Budget is perfect for project communication

Product Roadmap with Budget & Resources

This Product Roadmap emphasises the Product Investment, in terms of resources and budget.

Features:

  1. 5 workstreams
  2. An area against each workstream to detail the resources and/or budget allocated to that workstream
  3. A “Summary” area where the resources and/or budget can be summarised
  4. A timeline with example milestones
  5. The milestones can be dragged along the timeline, and the dates change automatically
  6. A legend for the timeline areas

See the Project Roadmap with Budget and Resource Template.

A screenshot of the Transition Plan Template (Roadmap Format)
View our recently added Transition Plan Template

Product Transition Roadmap

This Roadmap is designed to communicate Transition Plans

  1. Timeline
  2. Milestones
  3. Event markers in each workstream
  4. Management workstream (to show coordination activities in the transition project)
  5. Communications Workstream (announcements, comms)
  6. HR Workstream (transition HR issues management)
  7. Relocation Workstream
  8. IT Workstream (PC and telecomms)