Agile Product Roadmaps for Software Architecture

Software architecture can be beautiful, but business and engineering reality is often inconvenient and messy. James Siddle explains how living product roadmaps help you deal with reality without compromising your architecture vision. Youll learn Agile roadmapping techniques and how to engage with stakeholders to move toward your architecture goals while avoiding wasteful endeavors.

Agile product roadmaps describe key stepping stones toward major objectives but also provide regular checkpoints against measurable goals and opportunities for tactical reprioritization. James Siddle explains how living product roadmaps help you deal with reality without compromising your architecture vision, particularly when the benefits are not easy to measure. You’ll learn Agile roadmapping techniques, drawn from real-world case studies at the UK Home Office and major retailer Marks and Spencer, as James walks you through the concrete steps for building a roadmap and provides guidance on the role that roadmaps play in engaging with stakeholders for business case development, objective setting and assessment, and ongoing tactical prioritization. Topics include