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Project roadmaps provide a strategic overview of the major elements of a project. It should include objectives, milestones, deliverables, resources, and planned timeline.

Project managers can use roadmaps both to communicate a project’s strategic objectives to stakeholders and as an ongoing reference guide to keep them on track with their project’s progress. Just as a product roadmap communicates the why behind a product, a project roadmap should articulate the strategic reasoning for pursuing the project.

A project plan provides the task-level details of a project, presented on a timeline, to help project managers assign responsibilities and track all aspects of a project at a granular level. This document is primarily an internal resource for the project team to maintain an up-to-date view of how the project is progressing.

A project roadmap, by contrast, presents only a high-level, strategic view and does not delve into the day-to-day tasks or a detailed view of what everyone is working on. The roadmap is designed to help the team present an at-a-glance view of the project’s status to other teams, such as the executive staff, investors, the marketing and sales departments.

Because these tools each serve an important and different purpose, project managers should use both roadmaps and plans. They should first develop the roadmap – the strategic overview of the project – and then use this roadmap to break these strategic goals and milestones into the task-level details of the project plan.

First, a project roadmap serves as an ongoing reminder of the project’s strategic objectives. This is important because as teams make progress on any complex project, the day-to-day realities under which they’re working will often change. A second reason project managers should use roadmaps is their value in setting expectations, earning buy-in, and quickly updating other stakeholders, such as executives and investors.

When they ask for a status update on a project, these constituencies won’t want to sit through a task-by-task walkthrough of the team’s progress. They will be interested only in the strategic-level status -when a certain aspect of the project will be completed, which milestones your team has hit, if whether or not your project is coming in under budget.

Project managers can use this template when preparing project progress and status information. The product owner can use the slides in this template when discussing with the developers about the main objectives of the project and the deadlines for their implementation.

University educators can use the slides in this template to prepare courses on creating roadmaps or project management strategies. Startups can prepare a new product roadmap for discussion with investors.

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