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BigAgile's Product Roadmap functionality explained.

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Written by Swaran Dosanjh
Updated over a week ago

BigAgile's Roadmap screen allows you to automatically generate your Product roadmap based on your backlog and past delivery performance.

Roadmap Overview

In a nutshell, BigAgile will calculate your Increment velocity based on past delivery performance and plot your Product Roadmap across future Increments.

When viewing your roadmap, you can choose whether to base your Increment Velocity on no. of features or the size of features delivered.

When choosing No. of Features, BigAgile will use the number of features that have been completed over the past four increments to determine your Increment velocity.

When choosing Size of Features, BigAgile will add up the sizes of all features delivered over the past four increments to determine your Increment velocity.

You will notice values for Capacity and Load on each Increment. Capacity refers to the number or size of estimated features that can be completed based on your calculated Increment velocity. Load is the actual number/size of features that has been loaded in that Increment. In an ideal scenario, the Load is not larger than the Capacity.

You can refine and filter your roadmap by Stage and/or Project/Product if you want to.

BigAgile will show your active and planned increments (PI-4 and PI-5 in the example screenshot below) and the features you have already assigned to them. BigAgile will then determine how many more increments you would need to deliver your backlog and show them as Projected Future Increments (FI-1, FI-2, FI-3 in the example below). Your increments will be loaded to capacity with the features from your backlog, in priority order.

Each feature card will show the name of a feature, status/RAG (Done, On Target, etc.) and the feature's priority in the backlog.

Adjusting Projections

With BigAgile, you can also adjust your projections and generate a forecasted roadmap.

Using the slider, you are able to forecast what your roadmap would look like if you were to increase or reduce the number of teams.

You can also choose to run generate your roadmap based on a subset of your teams. This is particularly useful if some of your teams are more stable than others and so their velocity is more reliable.

To generate a projected roadmap, you need to click on the "Run" button after making your changes. This will update the roadmap shown on screen.

If you want to return to the default roadmap, you can simply reset your projection settings by clicking on the "Reset" button.

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