![]() The NNL roadmap forces you to stay in touch with your business objectives and build with them in mind. With the NNL, instead of plotting out a tedious delivery schedule, you spend your time researching, building, and fine-tuning the product work of the present moment. It doesn’t make sense to go into detail about big, far-off ideas – just like it doesn’t make sense to assign them deadlines. The NNL roadmap saves time because you don’t waste hours planning stuff into the future that you ultimately might not (or should not) build. In a way, certainty is portioned out over time horizons – which gives you the chance to become more certain, rather than commit too early. The Now column is definite, while the Later column is full of possibilities. NNL allows varying levels of certainty, and product teams can differentiate and prioritize their work based on that. And because you’re not making hard and fast decisions about the future, it remains flexible to your needs when you get there. You can’t make decisions far off in the distance or future, because you can’t see it clearly yet. Time horizons are powerful because they allow you to move forward, yet only make commitments to what lies directly ahead of you. ![]() The fundamental thing about the NNL is that it removes the constraints of the timeline and gives you something much more human: time horizons. Informs more impactful product decisions.Allows for different levels of certainty.Here are five more reasons why you should use a Now-Next-Later (NNL) roadmap: The format keeps you moving forward without wasting precious resources. Now-Next-Later roadmaps are lean by nature, so they are a great fit for product teams that work in a lean way. This roadmap format conveys the overall product vision, as each element of work is tied back to a business objective.Īn example of a Now/Next/Later roadmap Why use a Now-Next-Later roadmap? The Now-Next-Later roadmap is a product management tool that organizes work into three-time horizons, from immediate to long term, starting with the most urgent problems to solve. ![]() Let’s dive in! What is a Now-Next-Later roadmap? But this post is all about the Now/Next/Later format, how to use it, and why it’s the better choice. There’s plenty to say about why timeline roadmaps are awful and how your team can ditch the timeline roadmap. Not churning out-of-date stuff from last year’s to-do list. I invented the Now-Next-Later roadmap because I believe that, rather than focusing on deadline-based delivery, product teams should stay focused on discovery.ĭiscovery means staying aware of customer needs and business opportunities, and ensuring that the company is building the right thing according to recent data. Timeline roadmaps insist on deadlines, which means product teams are deprived of the flexibility that allows them to do their best work. The Now-Next-Later roadmap exists because timeline roadmaps aren’t effective, simple as that. ![]()
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