Christopher Global

Timelines and product roadmaps must be aligned efficiently to prevent delays. Particularly in industries with short time to market. Getting the greatest competitive market share depends on juggling scope and schedule during the product development process.

The product roadmap represents the strategy for the product development lifecycle. Each project timeline represents the scope and schedule of each product phase. Scope and schedule changes are often where they misalign.

Despite the fact that scope changes may be necessary to deliver a product, they can cause contentiousness within the business or external customers. And, we all face challenges when our schedules change. Thus, it is important to note that integrating project objectives with product roadmaps must be done with a discipline that combines both.

Methodologies such as project management can be customized. A major component of the integration process is change management. Whenever the scope changes, use project change management to prioritize and plan how to recover the schedule while adjusting the scope.

When schedule changes, use change management to accelerate where possible or adjust the timelines of other development phases or lifecycles. Keeping projects and products on track requires leaders to prioritize their efforts iteratively.