This document discusses how to build a strategic roadmap using agile planning. It begins with defining key terms like strategy, roadmap, vision, goals, and missions. It then explains why having a business roadmap is important for staying focused, creating accountability, prioritizing actions, communicating plans, and tracking progress. The document provides a step-by-step process for developing a roadmap, which includes defining the vision, identifying goals and milestones, breaking goals down into epics, prioritizing epics, and selecting epics for the first milestones. It emphasizes keeping the roadmap simple and focusing on the most valuable work.

1. Build a strategic
roadmap execute
using agile planning
Nefin John :
Technology Evangelist , Product Manager, Architect
Founder : KiddyDojo.com
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Twitter : @nefinjohn

2. About me :
Failed
Founder
Husband
Dad
Technologist
Speaker
And Partial
Color Blind

3. What will you learn today ?
Some good definitions
How to build roadmap
Examples
Questions if any
Why do you need
strategy before planning
How to plan with agility

4. Understand key terms
Strategy
Roadmap
Vision
Goal
Mission
Agile
Planning

5. Why do you need business roadmap ?
To stay focused
on path so that
you reach your
goal ( and only
your goal)
Create individual and
departmental accountability
for execution
Prioritize the actions to
facilitate investment
discussions and
planning for with the
rest of leadership.
To communicate to the
your executives and
team
Track and report
Progress
Plan time for resources and
costs for capital needs. Only
11% of managers say they
have the resources they need
to pursue the company’s
strategic objectives

6. What does it look like ?
In short
There is no one right way to visualize or document it.
There are tons of ways show it
There are tons of tools to do it..
But there is a right way to develop it !!

7. How do I build my business roadmap ?
1. What is your big vision
you are building this
startup for ?
4. For each goal
what is the actual
major set of works
(epics) needed
7. Prioritize
your epics
based on what
is most
valuable for
business
3. Identify the goals
you need to execute
your mission.
2. How are you
materializing you
vision ?
8. Agile - Only
do what is
important to
achieve the
next milestone
9. Plan and execute
5. Identify
milestones
Every action you take from now own
MUST to be aligned to your vision
Mission may
change over the
time but not the
vision !!
These are the strategies you
need to focus on !! (Themes)
6. Draw a
roadmap
10. Track progress and
celebrate the milesotne
completions !!

8. Let’s do it together !!
1. KiddyDojo’s vision is to “Prepare the generation for tomorrow”
2. I want to teach skills like sales, marketing, entrepreneurship,
risk-taking, empathy, product design, ‘accept failure’ and
leadership to kids early in life. (mission)
3. My Strategies- (1) Need a product (2) Need web presence (3) Build
corporate functions (4) Sales enablement (5) Investor reachout (6)
Customer success (7) Marketing and PR (8) Charity
And so on….the list can be big… but dont over do !!
4. Let’s break down each
goal (strategy) - Don’t over
do because strategy
changes with internal and
external situations

9. Let’s do it together !!
Need a Product
# Need MVP
# Mobile Product
# Additional features
# Kids conference
# Demo days
# Mentor network
# and many more
Internet Presence
# basic website
# social media handles
# branding
# mobile website
Corporate Function
# Need HR
# Legal team
# Board of directors
# Legal entity
# IP Protechtion
# blah blah
There will be many many more….
The objective is to not OVER DO !!!
Keep it simple for now..
Because things may change !!

10. Let’s do it together !!
1. KiddyDojo’s vision is to “Prepare the generation for tomorrow”
2. I want to teach skills like sales, marketing, entrepreneurship,
risk-taking, empathy, product design, ‘accept failure’ and
leadership to kids early in life. (mission)
3. My goals - (1) Need a digital product (2) Market the Product
(3) Sell the product (4) Deliver value to customer (kid and parent)
(5) Keep my stakeholders happy (6) Build a great organization
4. Let’s break down each
goal (strategy) - Don’t over
do because strategy
changes with internal and
external situations
5. Milestones .. how do you
want to do it step by step
- Must be time boxed
6 Visual Milestones .are
great for communicating
the idea with leadership

11. Public
Beta
Private
Beta Traction
Soft
Launch
Funding
100X
Growth
EXIT
M/A
Let’s do it together !!
For each one of these you need
1) Start date 2) End Date 3) Objective 4) Success criteria
TIMEBOXED
MEASURABLE
GOAL DRIVEN

12. Let’s do it together !!
1. KiddyDojo’s vision is to “Prepare the generation for tomorrow”
2. I want to teach skills like sales, marketing, entrepreneurship,
risk-taking, empathy, product design, ‘accept failure’ and
leadership to kids early in life. (mission)
3. My goals - (1) Need a digital product (2) Market the Product
(3) Sell the product (4) Deliver value to customer (kid and parent)
(5) Keep my stakeholders happy (6) Build a great organization
4. Let’s break down each
goal (strategy) - Don’t over
do because strategy
changes with internal and
external situations
5. Milestones .. how do you
want to do it step by step
- Must be time boxed
6 Visual Milestones .are
great for communicating
the idea with leadership
7 Get all epics and
prioritize it in the
order of how
valuable it is

13. Let’s do it together
Need a Product
# Need MVP
# Mobile Product
# Additional features
# Kids conference
# Demo days
# Mentor network
# and many more
Corporate Function
# Need HR
# Legal team
# Board of directors
# Legal entity
# IP Protechtion
# blah blah
Internet Presence
# basic website
# social media handles
# branding
# mobile website
# Need MVP
# basic website
# social media handles
# branding
# Mobile Product
# Additional features
# mobile website
# Legal entity
# Need HR
# Legal team
# Board of directors
# IP Protechtion
# Kids conference
# Demo days
# Mentor network

14. Let’s do it together !!
1. KiddyDojo’s vision is to “Prepare the generation for tomorrow”
2. I want to teach skills like sales, marketing, entrepreneurship,
risk-taking, empathy, product design, ‘accept failure’ and
leadership to kids early in life. (mission)
3. My goals - (1) Need a digital product (2) Market the Product
(3) Sell the product (4) Deliver value to customer (kid and parent)
(5) Keep my stakeholders happy (6) Build a great organization
4. Let’s break down each
goal (strategy) - Don’t over
do because strategy
changes with internal and
external situations
5. Milestones .. how do you
want to do it step by step
- Must be time boxed
6 Visual Milestones .are
great for communicating
the idea with leadership
7 Get all epics and
prioritize it in the
order of how
valuable it is
8 Pick the first 2 milestones
and put the epics that are
important to get those
milestone completed
9 . Focus on milestone
and execute

15. Public
Beta
Private
Beta
Soft
Launch
EXIT
M/A
Let’s do it together !!
For each one of these you need
1) Start date 2) End Date 3) Objective 4) Success criteria
TIMEBOXED
MEASURABLE
GOAL DRIVEN
# Need MVP
# basic website
# social media handles
Feb 2019
# branding
# Mobile Product
Oct 2019
Legal entity
# IP Protection
# Additional features
Dec 2019

16. Questions ??
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