Roadmap examples

I’ve written quite a few words concerning Decision Driven® Strategy roadmaps in the past week, so here’s a few pictures to illustrate important concepts.

Here’s a roadmap for an example water filter company that highlights their thinking concerning possible futures (alternatives across multiple decisions); the roadmap bars/text colors are controlled by the Preference (aka commitment level, decideness) attribute:

Strategy Roadmap to communicate Preference - Commitment Level

Here’s the same roadmap that communicates Implementation Status based on colors:

Strategy Roadmap to communicate Implementation Status

Now I’ve focused on a specific alternative “bar” and run a View Links “traceability” analysis.  I’ve used the results of that analysis to produce a filtered roadmap that shows just the decisions/alternatives linked to/from the selected alternative.  These filtered roadmaps are very useful for communicating “what-ifs”, aligning dates and highlighting problem areas that could cause slippage of a key capability or product.

Filtered Implementation Roadmap – with View Links Trace

I’ve built-in the ability to filter the roadmap view based on existing linkages or based on manually-selected decisions; this enables the user to create a wide variety of composite roadmaps to communicate strategic alignment status and challenges.

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