Tag: Milestone

See a selection of templates and articles that feature milestones, and promote and feature the use of a Milestone in planning techniques.

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Resource Plan – define your project workstreams

Product Resource & Delivery Plan (Visio) showing teams, resources, themes and Timeline

The Resource Plan is a crucial part of workstream planning. i.e. who is going to work in which area, and where do you need each discipline?

Features of The Resource Plan

  1. Timeline with Milestones
  2. Three Workstreams, plus a management resource area
  3. Resources allocated in each workstream
  4. Legend for Resources and for Activity Statuses
  5. Notes areas

See the Resource Plan Template (Visio).

See the Powerpoint Resource Plan Template.

Scenarios when you can use a Resource Plan

  1. When planning your workstreams
  2. When outlining a re-organisation of a unit or business group
  3. When proposing a new Team Structure
  4. When working through Scenario Planning with your existing teams

Resource Plan Templates

 

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Powerpoint Roadmap + Dashboard

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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Delivery Roadmap

View the amazing Delivery Roadmap

The delivery roadmap template has 4 workstreams, a clear legend, and bold activity bars.

Features of the Delivery Roadmap

  1. Legend – Low, Med and High Risk
  2. Timeline (configurable)
  3. Summary phases and milestones
  4. Four workstreams
  5. Clear activity bars
  6. Annotations

Download the Delivery Roadmap Template.

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Roadmap Visio

Our Visio Roadmap Template experts have assembled a range of Visio Roadmap Templates

These Roadmap Visio templates:-

  1. Communicate the project plans, at-a-glance
  2. Give a clear indication of workstreams and team activities
  3. Show milestones, and key delivery points

Our Roadmap Visio Document Formats

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Product Roadmap Examples

Project Schedule Roadmap

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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)
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Product Managers need Roadmaps – get used to it.

One thing you must know is that Product Managers need Roadmaps. If you find a product manager without a Roadmap, you can bet they are working on one.

Why do Product Managers need Roadmaps?

Product managers, project managers, executives, business owners, and others, will often ask for a “roadmap“. A “Product Roadmap” shows the direction and mapping of the future of the product, and clearly communicates the activities and milestones that are planned along the way.

Product Managers need Roadmaps because they must show plans and strategy to investors and stakeholders, in a simple format.

It is essential that the template you use shows the Product plans at a glance; this is the advantage with the roadmap format – i.e. you do not have to digest complicated Gantt charts.

Properties of a Product Roadmap:

  1. One side of paper.
  2. Includes a timeline to show plans over time.
  3. Simple format. You are able to complete reading it within 5 minutes.
  4. Shows key projects and workstreams.
  5. Shows key risks.
  6. Communicates the important deliveries and milestones.

To clearly present a product roadmap, a specialist type of template is required.

Specialist Product Roadmap Templates

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