Website Project Roadmap Organizational Rollout

After you get your website project roadmap done your next step is getting it out there in your organization. These activities will help make that happen successfully:

Preview your first roadmap – Folks all over your organization might be shocked when they see the first roadmap. Maybe their project isn’t on there. Maybe their project is different than what they want. Maybe They don’t quite understand what the roadmap is. Whatever the case, it’s worth your time to preview the first version as a “work in progress” to your team, your boss, and project sponsors. This is best done in person.

Update it or it dies – Your project roadmap will change frequently: after releasing a project, substantial change of project dates or as projects are added and deleted. And if you don’t update the roadmap when the plan changes, it will be constantly out of date and folks will start to ignore it. Use the roadmap as a good excuse to communicate your bright shiny future whenever you get the chance.

Soften the blow personally – When a project sponsor or other significant person is adversely affected by a project roadmap change, it’s a good idea to talk to the person before you send out an updated project roadmap. Blindsiding someone with bad news using a public document like your roadmap is never a good thing.

Widely distribute the website project roadmap – Get the roadmap out some place so that folks can see it. I’d recommend your intranet site as a good place to store the most recent version of the roadmap.

Now after working through the why, how and org roll out of website project roadmap, don’t you think it’s time to put one together? It’s not hard to pull together, I’d say an afternoon or two, and the benefits are simply huge. Create a website project roadmap for your organization, roll it out and let me know how it goes.

Want to learn more about website project roadmaps? Check out the website project roadmap resources.