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Product Development, and Product Planning is increasingly becoming part of all entrepreneurial business activity. Find a colleciton of Product articles and Product Templates here

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Product Plan – define your product!

SWOT PESTLE Roadmap Template (Powerpoint)

This Product Plan format communicates high level Launch Plans, Timeline, Milestones and Objectives to executive board stakeholder groups.

Powerpoint Product Plan with SWOT and PESTLE – copyright business-docs.co.uk

The Powerpoint Presentation Product Plan template shown here is based on tried and tested template formats, and is designed to communicate high level product plans to Executive Board audiences.

This Product Plan template is suitable for any stakeholder group circulation.

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Product Plan – roadmap slide
  3. Product SWOT Analysis

The Product Plan Template can be downloaded now, for immediate use.

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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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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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Product Roadmap

The Product Roadmap is the most efficient, at-a-glance means of communicating product plans and product status. Use one of our templates to save you time.

This Product Roadmap shows Timeline, Workstreams and Dashboard

This Product Roadmap features:

  1. Timeline
  2. Workstreams
  3. Product Activities
  4. Dashboard – shows status of Delivery, Budget, Resources, Marcoms

Other Product Roadmap documents

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Powerpoint Roadmaps

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Visio Roadmap

Simple, 5 workstream Visio roadmap template

Why Visio Roadmaps are the best way to communicate plans – clear, concise, and workstream-based… Leave your Gantt at home!

Here it is – the Visio Roadmap Template.

Due to the popularity of our roadmap templates, we’ve also added a scenario: “Creating your project roadmap“

Roadmaps are fast becoming the preferred way for project, programme and portfolio managers to communicate project plans.

Why are Visio Roadmaps the best way to communicate plans?

This is because Visio Roadmaps provide:

  1. At-a-glance understanding of plans
  2. A sense of capacity
  3. A clear indication of allocation of project capacity
  4. A sense of priority
  5. A clear deliniation of workstreams
  6. Clear indication of dates and milestones

This is because Visio Roadmaps are a “1-pager”

  1. You have the plan, on 1 page, without complicated Gantt formatting
  2. Your stakeholders can hand them around
  3. Your stakeholders can talk around them, easily

Some Visio Roadmap Templates