Provides a frame of reference, setting, and circumstances, that makes the roadmap understandable to anyone. You can achieve this with these two components:
- Scope
- Time

Context

Confidence Estimates are assessments of the likely impact and/or success of different themes. It allows stakeholders to assess success of certain initiatives.

Confidence Estimates

States potential risks that are associated with any component of the roadmap.

Disclaimer

- Context
- Themes
- Confidence Estimates
- Disclaimers

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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

Structures and Components of Roadmaps

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

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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