As a product owner, you often start with a large chunk of backlog items (eg.: add a blog to an e-commerce website) which can be detailed later. So creating a roadmap of these large items could be helpful to: - gain an oversight on - prioritize - schedule large backlog items. Moreover, it provides an informative view for tracking the development's progression later on.

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3. Purpose of roadmap
Story maps are a great tool for digging deep into user journeys by
mapping out all the steps the user does in the product. This information
and user stories could be too granular to stakeholders who want to have
a quick (and high-level overview) of what will happen around the
product in the next few months or quarters.
Besides, as a product owner, you often start with a large chunk of
backlog items (eg.: add a blog to an e-commerce website) which can be
detailed later (as part of an existing story map, or on a brand new story
map). So creating a roadmap of these large items could be helpful to:
gain an oversight on
prioritize
schedule
large backlog items. Moreover, it provides an informative view for
tracking the development's progression later on.
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4. Purpose of roadmap
As above described, roadmaps are helpful when you plan a new product
or new features for a running product. Steps could be the followings:
1 Create a roadmap and create a card for each product
component (or feature idea)
Have a prioritization session and decide what's going to
be developed first
Detail the top-priority items by mapping out the user
journey on a story map (or extend your product's story
map with the new epic)
Arrange/schedule the rest of the roadmap items
Invite stakeholders to the roadmap
Roadmaps are also useful when you have already done the story
mapping session and the releases are scheduled. In this case, the
roadmap provides a convenient board to track the development's
progression. The steps are the following:
Pick a roadmap template that suits your needs
Decide how to group the items into columns eg:
Q1
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Q2
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Q3 or NOW
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NEXT
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LATER
Link a story map (or multiple story maps) to the roadmap
Import story map items (Hint: use the quick-add option
when creating the roadmap)
Invite stakeholders to the roadmap
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5. How to pick the right roadmap template
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StoriesOnBoard offers multiple roadmap templates that fit the most
product development use cases. To make the template selection easier
we provided an intuitive wizard for you.
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In order to select the right roadmap template you should answer
the following questions:
How features or epics are grouped on your story map?
Are you working in quarterly time-boxes or just picking
backlog items from the top of the backlog?
Should you share everything from your story map?
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How features or epics are grouped on your story map?
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If you use the releases for larger grouping stories into functionalities
then Release roadmaps or Portfolio roadmaps are great for you. If
you start by linking a single story map you can add more sources by
upgrading the release roadmap into a portfolio roadmap.
If you use the story map releases to slice the backlog into iterations
(e.g. sprint 12, sprint 13
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, then you get more value from the Epic
roadmap or High-level roadmap, where you can link multiple user
stories as an epic to the roadmap card. Similar to release-based
roadmaps, you can extend the number of story maps.
Are you working in quarterly time-boxes or just picking
backlog items from the top of the backlog?
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There are multiple ways to set up the column structure on the
roadmap. Here are the most popular structures:
time-based: if you're working with deadlines or quarterly
goals, choosing the Q1
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Q2
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Q3
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Q4 structure will be easy-to-
understand to every stakeholder. It's helpful in building a
shared understanding among internal teams. Eg: the
marketing team can plan the upcoming months or quarters.
priority-based: if your team is just delivering what's on the
top of the priority list, you can organize items into the NOW
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NEXT
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LATER groups, so you can communicate what's on the
dev team's table and what will come next. Plus, the 'Later'
column shows the low-priority items
process-based: this template is useful to communicate the
progress to the online teams or to the executives. So they
can monitor what's happening in the dev team, what will
come next, and what is already delivered.
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There are multiple ways to set up the column structure on the
roadmap. Here are the most popular structures:

7. How to pick the right roadmap template
Should you share everything from your story map?
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Sometimes you have too many items on the story map and would
narrow the scope. If you want to share just a hand-picked
selection of backlog items, then skip the quick-add pop-up and
add items manually.
All items are important? Don't worry, we save you a lot of time.
Quick add feature links and organizes all items on your roadmap.
Product roadmap templates on StoriesOnBoard
StoriesOnBoard offers multiple roadmap templates that fit the most
product development use cases. To make the template selection easier
we provided an intuitive wizard for you.
This roadmap allows you to schedule and visualize business or feature
releases on a kanban-style roadmap. Use this template if you use
releases for larger product increments, and everything is managed
within the same story map.
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8. How to pick the right roadmap template
Use this template when features or epics are structured on the story
map backbone. You can create a roadmap item from a single column or
top-level card.
If you grouped features into large business releases across multiple
story maps, this template is for you. Create a high-level overview of
your initiatives on a single roadmap and track progression effortlessly.
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Portfolio roadmap
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9. How to pick the right roadmap template
High-level roadmaps allow you to visualize large-backlog items from
multiple story maps on an easy-to-understand board. You can group
roadmap items with swimlanes for a better visuality.
High-level roadmap
Create a custom roadmap with items created from scratch. This
roadmap type allows you to create visualize high-level or company
initiatives.
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