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1.7 KiB
Markdown
46 lines
1.7 KiB
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# Roadmap and Opportunity Prioritization
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## Purpose
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Choose what to do next by comparing opportunities, maintenance work, and strategic bets against explicit decision criteria.
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## When to use
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- Too many plausible initiatives compete for limited time
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- Feature work and maintenance work need to be balanced
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- A team needs a more defensible roadmap discussion
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- Promising ideas need sequencing rather than more generation
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## Inputs to gather
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- Candidate initiatives or workstreams
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- Decision criteria such as impact, urgency, effort, risk reduction, or strategic fit
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- Dependencies, timing constraints, and team capacity
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- Evidence for expected payoff or avoided risk
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## How to work
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- Make prioritization criteria explicit before ranking work.
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- Compare user value, strategic value, and risk reduction together.
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- Treat maintenance and enabling work as first-class opportunities when they materially improve future delivery.
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- Distinguish what is urgent, what is high leverage, and what is merely attractive.
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- Produce a sequence that a team can actually act on.
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## Output expectations
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- Prioritized list or roadmap recommendation
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- Clear rationale for order and tradeoffs
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- Notes on what to defer, revisit, or validate next
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## Quality checklist
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- Priorities reflect stated criteria rather than intuition alone.
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- Sequencing respects dependencies and capacity.
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- Lower-priority items are deferred for a reason, not forgotten accidentally.
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- Maintenance work is evaluated on outcomes, not optics.
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## Handoff notes
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- Note what new evidence would most change the ranking.
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- Pair with maintenance and technical debt planning or structured brainstorming when the decision needs deeper shaping.
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