12 templates
Roadmap templates
Product, technology and programme roadmaps whose arrows are CHECKED against their dates. Lanes for themes or teams; items placed by quarter, month, half, year or on a Now / Next / Later horizon; four statuses (planned, in progress, done, at risk), each with a symbol as well as a colour so the figure survives greyscale; milestones on a band of their own with guide lines, or inside a lane; and a status date that draws the today line. Every dependency is checked: a prerequisite still running when its dependent starts is drawn red and named with the overlap in days, a loop or an unknown prerequisite is an error, and with a status date the engine reports what is overdue and anything marked done or in progress before it was due to start.
Roadmap — B2B SaaS Product, FY2027 by Quarter
A fiscal-year product roadmap for a fictional workflow-analytics SaaS across five lanes, from core platform to mobile: 16 items (3 done, 5 in progress, 7 planned, 1 at risk) and 3 milestones on a quarter axis with a 14 May 2027 status date. All 11 dependencies finish before their dependents start, and the longest chain runs from the SOC 2 Type II report through EU data residency and bring-your-own-key encryption to Enterprise tier GA on 1 Dec 2027. Illustrative roadmap.
Business & StrategyRoadmap — Now / Next / Later for a Consumer App
A customer-facing Now / Next / Later roadmap for a fictional running app, deliberately free of dates: 14 items (2 done, 4 in progress, 7 planned, 1 at risk) across five lanes and three captioned horizons. All 7 dependencies point forward to a later horizon, so nothing is promised before the work it waits for, and two chains run the whole width of the roadmap: adaptive plans to a coach marketplace, and watch sync through a recovery score to an injury-risk warning. Illustrative roadmap.
Business & StrategyRoadmap — Core Banking Modernisation, 2026–2029
A four-year technology roadmap for a fictional building society replacing its mainframe core, drawn by half-year: 17 items (5 done, 5 in progress, 7 planned) and 2 milestones across five lanes with a 15 Mar 2027 status date. All 17 dependencies finish before their dependents start; the longest chain, six steps, runs from core vendor selection through the cloud core build and the savings, mortgage and current-account migrations to the mainframe switch-off at the end of 2029. Illustrative roadmap.
ArchitectureRoadmap — Five-Year Research Consortium by Work Package
A five-year consortium grant on peatland restoration laid out by work package on a year axis, with deliverables and the funder's review points as milestones: 16 items (4 done, 4 in progress, 7 planned, 1 at risk) and 4 milestones in six lanes, status date 20 Sep 2027. All 20 dependencies finish before their dependents start; the longest chain, seven steps, runs from the kick-off through site instrumentation, the v1 carbon model, the mid-term review and the policy briefs to the final synthesis and the programme end. Illustrative roadmap.
Research & AcademicRoadmap — Hardware Product Through EVT, DVT and PVT Gates
A stage-gated hardware roadmap for a fictional 22 kW wall-box EV charger, from engineering validation to mass production, with gate reviews as milestones on the band above the lanes: 16 items (3 done, 5 in progress, 7 planned, 1 at risk) and 4 milestones over six quarters, status date 10 Jun 2027. All 22 dependencies finish before their dependents start, including CE (LVD, EMC, RED) and UL 2594 testing after design validation, and the longest chain runs from the G2 concept freeze through EVT, DVT and the CE campaign to the retail launch. Illustrative roadmap.
Project & PlanningRoadmap — LLM Support Assistant From Pilot to General Availability
A month-by-month roadmap for taking a fictional retailer's customer-support LLM assistant from an internal pilot to general availability, with evaluation, retrieval, safety and cost work in their own lanes: 16 items (4 done, 4 in progress, 7 planned, 1 at risk) and 3 milestones, status date 19 Apr 2027. All 21 dependencies finish before their dependents start — the customer beta waits for red-teaming and the DPIA, and GA waits for online evaluation — and the longest chain, six steps, runs from the golden set through CI evals, model routing and the semantic cache to GA and the voice pilot. Illustrative roadmap.
AI & PipelinesRoadmap — New Degree Programme From Validation to First Intake
A month-by-month roadmap for a fictional university launching a BSc (Hons) Data Science — 18 modules of 20 credits, 360 in all — from academic approval through the validation event to welcome week: 15 items (3 done, 2 in progress, 9 planned, 1 at risk) and 3 milestones across five lanes, status date 18 Jan 2027. All 19 dependencies finish before their dependents start; the longest chain, eight steps, runs from academic approval through learning outcomes, module specifications, the assessment strategy, the validation event and open days to first intake. Illustrative roadmap.
Project & PlanningRoadmap — ERP Rollout in Three Regional Waves
An operations roadmap for a fictional logistics group moving 2,550 users onto one ERP in three regional waves after a single global template: 13 items (2 done, 2 in progress, 8 planned, 1 at risk) and 5 milestones across six lanes over six quarters, status date 23 Aug 2027. All 20 dependencies finish before their dependents start — testing waits for the template build and the mock migrations, users are trained before each go-live, and waves 2 and 3 each wait for the go-live before them — and the longest chain, ten steps, runs from fit-gap workshops to programme close. Illustrative roadmap.
Operations & OpsRoadmap — Zero Trust and ISO/IEC 27001 Certification
A security roadmap for a fictional insurer moving to zero trust and certifying to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 within the year, with the Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits as milestones: 15 items (5 done, 3 in progress, 6 planned, 1 at risk) and 2 milestones across five lanes, status date 7 Jul 2027. All 14 dependencies finish before their dependents start — the internal audit and the 93-control Statement of Applicability before Stage 1 — and the longest chain runs from the risk assessment to closing audit nonconformities. Illustrative roadmap.
Risk & ReliabilityRoadmap — Biotech R&D Pipeline by Asset and Phase
A five-year R&D portfolio roadmap for a fictional biotech with one lane per asset — an oral MASH candidate in Phase 2b, an antibody in Phase 1 and an oncology programme in IND-enabling studies — plus CMC and medical affairs: 13 items (2 done, 4 in progress, 6 planned, 1 at risk) and 6 milestones by half-year, status date 10 Feb 2027. All 14 dependencies finish before their dependents start, with each data readout gating the next phase, and the longest chain runs from the Phase 2b study through readout and the end-of-Phase 2 meeting to Phase 3. Illustrative roadmap.
Life SciencesRoadmap — Net-Zero Transition Plan, 2026–2035
A ten-year climate transition roadmap for a fictional food manufacturer, one lane per emissions scope plus reporting, with the SBTi validation, the 2030 near-term target (Scope 1 and 2 down 42% on 2020, the 1.5 °C minimum) and 2035 net zero for Scope 1 and 2 as milestones: 13 items (3 done, 5 in progress, 4 planned, 1 at risk) and 3 milestones on a year axis, status date 30 Jun 2027. All 12 dependencies finish before their dependents start, and both targets wait for the work that delivers them. Illustrative roadmap.
Business & StrategyTeaching Case — A Roadmap Whose Arrows Contradict Its Dates
A small product roadmap that looks plausible on a slide and is not, with each defect deliberately left in for the checker to find: the data-warehouse migration overruns into the quarter in which self-serve analytics is due to start (31 days of overlap), a pricing launch is dated 16 days before the billing rebuild it needs is finished, the mobile redesign was due to finish in April but is still in progress on the 20 May 2027 status date, and SSO is marked done though it is not due to start until July. 8 items in 3 lanes and 1 milestone. Illustrative roadmap.
Project & Planning