Create a Guide: Product Roadmap

[mariastudnicka]

Overview

We need to create a guide to making a Product Roadmap so that projects can stay clear and focused on the overall approved mission of the project and know where they are at any given time.

Special Adoption note

Maria has made a guide that explain roadmaps. Our goal with the Guides is to get specific about how to make one at Hack for LA. So interviewing the projects that have done it, and writing up the guidance for that is the primary mission. The material that Maria provided can be used for context.

Action Items

The phases in the guide-making process are listed below. Each phase displayed in blue is linked to a wiki page with instructions on how to complete that phase. Open the wiki page in a new tab, copy the instructions for each part into the section labeled 'Tasks' at the bottom of this issue, and complete each task listed.

• Gather Examples Solo (open in a new tab)
• Gather Examples Collaboratively
• Create a Guide Draft
  • If needed, create a template
• Have your guide peer reviewed
• Present your guide for leadership review

Resources/Instructions

Roadmap Guide
VRMS Roadmap Guide

Projects to Check

Tasks

• This is where you will copy instructions from the wiki page for the step you are currently on.

[Olivia-Chiong]

@mariastudnicka thanks for the comprehensive work on this. However, there needs to be more HfLA examples. Linking to what has been done but not showcasing it as an example doesn't allow for our community to efficiently work using those templates/examples. Please revise accordingly. Thank you!

[fchan218]

Prior version of issue

Overview

We need to create a guide to making a Product Roadmap so that projects can stay clear and focused on the overall approved mission of the project and know where they are at any given time.

Special Adoption note

Maria has made a guide that explain roadmaps. Our goal with the Guides is to get specific about how to make one at Hack for LA. So interviewing the projects that have done it, and writing up the guidance for that is the primary mission. The material that Maria provided can be used for context.

Action Items

• Gather examples of how other projects have done, adding each example as a link in the resources section
  • Once done, remove the "TG: Gather Examples" label and add the "TG: Draft Template" label
• Create a draft template, either in markdown format in this issue or a google doc in the old product management google drive new product management google drive>Product Management Guides
  • Once done, remove the "TG: Draft Template" label and add the "TG: Create Guide" label
• Create a guide on how to use the template
  • Once done, remove the "TG: Create Guide" label and add the "TG: Review Guide" label
• Review the guide with product management communities of practice
  • Once done, remove the "TG: Review Guide" label and add the "TG: Leadership Review" label
• Present to Hack for LA leadership team for sign off
  • Once approved, remove the "TG: Leadership Review" label and add the "TG: Place Guide" label
• Possibly create an issue template on .github
  • Include link to template under resources if you add it as a template in .github

Resources

Roadmap Guide

Project that have created roadmaps

• Open Community Survey
  • OCS Roadmap
  • Issue: Create project roadmap open-community-survey#43
• Internship
  • Internship Roadmap
  • Issue: Create a Roadmap internship#54
• HackforLA website
  • website Roadmap
  • Issue:
• Guides team
  • Guides Roadmap
  • Issue: Make a project Roadmap guides#36

Projects that are in process of creating roadmaps

• 100 Automations
  • 100 Automations Roadmap
  • Issue: Roadmap 100Automations/Website#473
• Data Science
  • Data Science Roadmap
  • Issue:

[fchan218]

Assignee, Labels, Project Board Placement, and Milestones for this issue in the Product Repo:

[fchan218]

Files in this issue:

Roadmap Guide

• This file will need to be moved to the knowledgebase-content Google Drive
• Unable to move this document to the knowledgebase-content Google Drive