{"id":47567,"date":"2023-10-20T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/why-all-startups-should-have-a-post-it-note-roadmap-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:54:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:54:11","slug":"why-all-startups-should-have-a-post-it-note-roadmap-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/why-all-startups-should-have-a-post-it-note-roadmap-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Why all startups should have a Post-it note roadmap &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/post-it-notes-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"post-it notes\"><\/div>\n<p>Walk into any leading corporate or tech company and you\u2019ll immediately be accosted by bright Post-its on all walls.<\/p>\n<p>For the uninformed, these aren\u2019t a cheap way of decorating \u2013 these capture features or action items for the teams\u2019 product roadmap or development sprints.<\/p>\n<h3>Why put your product roadmap on the wall?<\/h3>\n<h4>It takes people on the journey<\/h4>\n<p>Like slides in a pitch deck, this is something you can take people to again and again to have a collaborative discussion about where you are and where you\u2019re headed.<\/p>\n<h4>It\u2019s inspirational<\/h4>\n<p>Rome wasn\u2019t built in a day, but with a series of incremental releases. Showcasing your milestones will showcase the progress you\u2019re making and of the big picture vision.<\/p>\n<h4>Keep the team in alignment<\/h4>\n<p>As you take on employee one to 100 plus, your communication overhead increases exponentially.<\/p>\n<p>Taking it out of your brain and putting it on the wall keeps your team focused on the plan, even when you\u2019re not there to relay it.<\/p>\n<h4>It\u2019s a valuable planning tool<\/h4>\n<p>There\u2019s only so many hours in a day. When you roadmap visually, it\u2019s easy to see where you\u2019ve overcommitted. Use this as a valuable sanity check if you\u2019re trying to do too many things at once.<\/p>\n<h4>It\u2019s a great sanity check tool<\/h4>\n<p>When you\u2019re down in the detail, shaving yaks, taking a moment to step back and remember the big picture can help you get back on track.<\/p>\n<p>Creating your visual roadmap doesn\u2019t have to be an arduous task. All you need is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A wall<\/li>\n<li>Post-it notes<\/li>\n<li>Plans and ideas (no shortage of those<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A great roadmap is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High level \u2013 not detailed<\/li>\n<li>Covers the next three months, revised every three months<\/li>\n<li>Structured (consider Kanban, Gantt, Horizon formats)<\/li>\n<li>Made quickly<\/li>\n<li>Shared within the team \u2013 or even publicly like Buffer does.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your team is remote, consider having an online version which mirrors your offline one. Great tools for this are Trello (free), ProdPad (paid), and Aha.io (paid).<\/p>\n<p>Does your startup have a roadmap? If not, why not?<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was first published on the BlueChilli blog.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow StartupSmart on<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Facebook,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Twitter,&nbsp;LinkedIn.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walk into any leading corporate or tech company and you\u2019ll immediately be accosted by bright Post-its on all walls. For<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}