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A Roadmap is Not a Project Plan

Your roadmap is about direction, while your project plan is about speed.

Roadmap: where are we going and how do we think we’re going to get there. This is primarily driven by business strategy. (see: How to format your roadmap to foster cross-team alignment)

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Project plan: when should we get there. This is primarily driven by resources and velocity.

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It’s easy to conflate your roadmap with a project plan, but they are fundamentally different tools that are essential to creating your product backlog.