Narrowness or broadness of a roadmap. It determines what objectives will be addressed in a certain project. It also decides the timeline of the roadmap. More narrow maps are typically in shorter intervals, broader ones are longer.

Scope

Following the pupil, light passes through the lens, a curved and transparent ocular structure that provides additional focusing power. The lens is connected to muscles that alter its shape, enabling it to focus on light reflected from objects at varying distances.

Lens

Roadmaps need to be flexible as objectives and needs change as what they are used for and who uses them can change as a project progresses. These two components can help achieve this:
- Scope
- Lens

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A High Level Map that communicates current, next, and future work for a team to solve a problem or improve/create a product.  It is designed to assist a team’s ability to establish and perform the necessary steps of achieving a particular goal.  It is meant to be a guiding document rather than a strict schedule; a centralized resource that all team members can access.

UX Roadmap: Definition and Components

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UX Roadmaps: Definition and Component

- Context
- Themes
- Confidence Estimates
- Disclaimers

Structures and Components of Roadmaps

Adaptations

- Based on user research: Themes should be thought of as user problems to solve, and specify how future research should be done.

- Contextually Appropriate: Roadmaps should be relevant to the organization's overall strategy and adapted to the needs of the users.

- Collaborative and Living: Components of a roadmap are always liable to change as projects, users, team members, and goals change. So roadmaps should always be adaptive.


Characteristics of Successful Roadmaps

Release Plans cover how problems are to be solved. Roadmaps cover what problems are to be resolved.  

- Project Management plans track more specific, measurable steps to resolve and issue. Roadmaps cover broader, higher level ideas to accomplish a vision

- Product Backlogs are a tier rank priority list of accomplishing tasks that are actionable. Roadmaps inform how priority decisions should be made

- Customer-Journey Maps focus on users’ journey in interacting with a product. Roadmaps communicate future work


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