Planning & Delivery · Planning
Now–Next–Later Roadmap
NOW–NEXT–LATER Roadmap · Product planning artifact
Roadmaps become false promises because exact dates and distant feature lists imply too much certainty.
Why use it
Separate committed near-term work from next opportunities and later options.
How to apply
- Define the specific management situation and desired outcome.
- Gather the minimum facts, constraints, and perspectives needed to use the tool.
- Apply Now–Next–Later Roadmap, make key assumptions explicit, and compare the result with realistic alternatives.
- Record the decision, next owner or action, and a testable criterion for the next step.
Output
A flexible Now–Next–Later roadmap.