Roadmapping

The Roadmapping phase is where the Tech Lead and the Product representative collaborate together to define a Roadmap of Milestones for the project. During this process we take a number of things into account.

  • technical dependencies & constraints
  • best way to show client progress without fabricating Demos or doing Demo Driven Development.
  • make sure we can internally deliver testable versions to stakeholders

This is done in Jira using the Roadmap feature. The high level Milestones are broken out and defined & prioritized first based on the criteria above in collaboration with Product.

The Product person then takes the User Stories from the Estimations phase, cleans them up (adding any new ones, adding details to stories, etc.), and organizes them into the roadmapped milestones.