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Our new Interval Roadmap converts our dashboards into a streamlined vertical roll-up, clearly displaying product plans by time intervals.
Now, your product management teams can easily understand and monitor their development plans by month, quarter or year, over a 1-, 3-, or 5-year timeframe.
What Are the Benefits of Interval Roadmaps?
Where the current Plans roadmap will plot the plans by product line (one product line per row), the Interval Roadmap focuses on all plans set to be released in a specific time interval, grouped in columns. Inside each column, you can see the details of each product plan — such as new module releases, projected costs, estimated revenue, and whichever metrics matter most for the organization or the audience. Cost/benefit financial metrics can then be parsed at the interval — through each level of month, quarter, year, and the total duration of the roadmap view you have created.
Refined Multi-Year Plan Presentations
As much as your product development teams may enjoy preparing a multi-year plan, the time it takes to translate ideas and complex interdependencies into documents and slide shows can give any product manager a headache.
With the interval roadmap, product managers can easily present a clear and concise multi-year plan to executives, investors, and other stakeholders without leaving the roadmap software. It also makes it easy to show year-on-year what the portfolio will bring in terms of benefits to the company.
Reduced Time on Meeting Prep
Reconfiguring product portfolios into a vertical display saves your team hours of meeting and presentation prep. Instead of translating metrics into spreadsheets, charts, or slideshows, teams can click a few filters and display the interval roadmaps with all the necessary data. Saving time on meeting preparations means teams can focus more on delivering an excellent presentation.
The Interval Roadmap has our standard filters, including:
- Market Divisions (like Region or Brand)
- Product Line Categories
- Plan Stage
- KPI(s)
- Plan Properties
- Feature Families
Enriched Communication and Transparency
Using Gocious product roadmap software helps keep product stakeholders informed and reduces information silos. With Interval Roadmaps, product managers can share a 360° view of their product portfolio to increase transparency in an easy-to-access dashboard.
Whether executives seek the data themselves or ask their leadership teams for reports, Interval Roadmaps makes it painless to answer essential questions, such as how many products are waiting for approval this year or how many products are launching next year.
The Interval Roadmap is a clear, high-level executive-facing view where filters are easy to navigate, and noise is filtered, providing the right amount of information for the right audience.
How do Interval Roadmaps Work?
The Interval Roadmap accesses the same information as the product portfolio roadmaps do, presenting the data in a way that is more focused on the financial implications of each interval, instead of the activities of each product line. This can be especially helpful for stakeholders and executives.
Rather than viewing product lines on a horizontal timeline to compare the activities of each product line, the Interval Roadmap sorts all products into a vertical column based on the time intervals.
You can specify the time intervals based on the frequency of their releases and the period you want to review, whether monthly, quarterly, or yearly. This will set the columns and how the plans are grouped. The plans are listed in their respective interval in chronological order. You can also set the total duration of the roadmap to 1, 3, or 5 years. This will determine how many intervals (columns) to display in total.
Once these settings are established, stakeholders can review the progress of each plan scheduled for release within that timeframe. The vertical columns make it easier to see - across the entire portfolio - which plans are set to be released, and how they will impact the financial metrics.
To make it easier to identify product lines, plans are color-coded and the diamond positioned across the top of the card will display its scheduled date.
Hide the Noise and Reveal the Metrics that Matter
Like our other dashboards, Interval Roadmaps reinforces the metrics that matter most to your stakeholders. With dynamic filters, you can display precisely the data you need for your presentations. These custom metric points can include some of the following:
- Production cost
- Projected profit
- Total investment
- Market share
- Profit
- Number of products scheduled for release
Improving Operational Efficiency for Your Teams
Organizations are better equipped to make strategic product decisions when they have clear oversight of their portfolios. Establishing clear oversight requires product roadmap software that simplifies the data and paints a clear view of every plan on the timeline.
When Our Customers Succeed, We All Win
Gocious' main mission when enhancing our product roadmap software is to reduce the friction in complex product management processes with streamlined, easy-to-use solutions. Ideas for creating new features come from listening to our customers share their struggles with their everyday product management tasks.
We recently heard a valued client declare their need for a vertical roll-up of their product plans according to their preferred timeline, and we immediately recognized the benefit that such a feature would offer manufacturing teams everywhere.
We made the Interval Roadmap our next priority, not only to satisfy the client who requested it but also to serve the needs of our other manufacturing clients. Once we presented the plan for the new feature, other customers were excited to use Interval Roadmaps in their own operations.
How to Access the Interval Roadmap
The new Interval Roadmap feature is now available to all users of the Gocious product roadmap platform. With our API features, you can also integrate Gocious with your complete suite of business intelligence tools to create a seamless data stream.
Ready to see how Interval Roadmaps can save your management team time while improving future planning and communication across your portfolio? Sign up for a demo today, and let's discuss how our product roadmap software can drive innovation, mitigate risk, and ensure alignment for your teams!