Strategic Technology Roadmap Worksheets
We all know that technology commercialization success starts with the end in mind, a product with market viability.
We all know that technology commercialization success starts with the end in mind, a product with market viability. However, it’s not always clear at the outset what the defense and the commercial market want from your product. Successful companies find a way to create a living technology development strategy that evolves as you learn more about your market and customers.
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to flip the narrative on traditional technology development by creating the first draft of your living technology roadmap. The roadmap will give focus and purpose to your R&D efforts, while providing your team with clear decision pathways. The technology roadmap will become the foundation of your company’s strategic plan, guiding everything from funding strategy to staffing plans.
At this workshop, you’ll learn how to maintain the roadmap as a living document within your company. You’ll also learn how to build a team to own the roadmap and guide its execution. Finally, you’ll begin to translate your roadmap into an actionable business strategy that’s rooted in your company mission and vision.
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Workflow Diagram Template
Works best for:
Diagramming, Mapping, Process mapping
The Workflow Diagram Template maps out and represents processes or systems using standardized symbols and shapes. By delineating the various steps or stages in a process, it ensures that tasks flow seamlessly from initiation to completion. One of the standout benefits of using this template is its clarity. By translating processes into a visual format, all participants can gain a comprehensive understanding at a glance, eliminating confusion and ensuring everyone is on the same page. This clarity not only promotes efficient task execution but also fosters collaboration among team members.
Detailed Empathy Map With Personas
Works best for:
Empathy Map
Understand your audience better with the Empathy Map Personas template. This tool helps you capture insights into your customers' needs, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. By visualizing these personas, you can tailor your product development, marketing strategies, and customer interactions to better meet their needs and enhance user satisfaction. Ideal for teams focused on customer-centric solutions.
Value Stream Mapping Template
Works best for:
Project Management, Strategic Planning, Mapping
A value stream map can help you refocus your business on steps that actually provide value to your customers, cutting out wasteful and inefficient processes. With this template, you and your process team can collaborate on a value stream map today.
Sprint Planning Template
Works best for:
Agile, Sprint Planning
The Sprint Planning Template is a useful tool for agile teams to organize and conduct sprint planning sessions. It enhances team collaboration and communication by providing a clear visual layout of sprint goals, tasks, and timelines. The interactive design ensures team alignment toward sprint objectives, leading to effective teamwork. The template is a central hub for planning, discussion, and decision-making, creating a collaborative and productive environment.
Communication Roadmap
Works best for:
Roadmap, Mapping, Planning
The Communication Roadmap template enables teams to plan and execute effective communication strategies. By outlining key messages, channels, and stakeholders, teams can ensure consistent and targeted communication throughout a project lifecycle. This template fosters alignment and transparency, enabling teams to engage stakeholders effectively and mitigate risks associated with miscommunication.
Buyer Persona Template
Works best for:
Marketing, Desk Research, User Experience
You have an ideal customer: The group (or few groups) of people who will buy and love your product or service. But to reach that ideal customer, your entire team or company has to align on who that is. Buyer personas give you a simple but creative way to get that done. These semi-fictional representations of your current and potential customers can help you shape your product offering, weed out the “bad apples,” and tailor your marketing strategies for serious success.