![]() ![]() How well depends on how well equipped and what your starting position is now. You can also see into the middle distance (next), in various directions, to various levels of degrees. ![]() You’re a long way off and there are a lot of things you can do before you get there to gather resources and knowledge, but if there are known, chunky problems, like, “Get up the mountain” it’s worth noting them down so you and your team can keep an eye out for ways to break them down and solve them over the course of the months and years of the journey ahead. Maybe something to do with keeping warm or ice climbing gear, but that’s too specific, and you can figure that out when you’re closer. There are probably problems to solve there. ![]() That mountain top you aspire to conquer later on. You can also see way off into the distance. You can see what’s keeping your team busy right now and what problems are right in front of you. You’re standing here, at the present time, or what we’d call Now. It allows the product team to express different levels of granularity and certainty for each bucket. It does away with the timelines of the Gantt chart that end up trapping product people into committing false dates for their work, and instead groups initiatives into three buckets: Now, Next, and Later. This is where the concept of horizons come in.Ī great format for a lean roadmap is what we call the Now-Next-Later format of the roadmap. It’s up to you and your team to survey your surroundings, and decide what you have, and what problems you need to solve as you go.Įvery product is a unique journey. You’ve got certain resources with you now, and you’ll pick up more resources and knowledge along the way. It’s more like landing on a new, unknown shore, and knowing that you want to get to a big gold-topped mountain in the distance, and having to pick out the best path along the way. It’s not like building a pre-fab house, which is really just about gathering the materials and putting it all together in a series of precise steps. There’s no blueprint to follow, no ‘right way’ to do this. You’re building into uncharted territory. One fundamental thing to remember is that product is a big unknown. ![]()
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