Blending technology and strategy for effective roadmaps
A technical roadmap really highlights the
pieces of technology that will support a more strategic-type roadmap. The best
roadmaps that I've worked on, we don't even talk technology until the end, right?
We understand what problems we want to solve, what outcomes we want to achieve, and how will
we know we got there? And then we take a look at the application portfolio that a customer
might have. Quite often working with Cask, we are looking at the ServiceNow platform and how
can that solve and be that underpinning technology that marries into the strategic roadmap. But,
we don't go into it with our mindset that, “OK, we need ITSM and ITOM and ITAM and maybe a little
SPM later.” We really take a look at the execute upon that after that strategic roadmap is done.
But the technology piece is equally important, because if you don't have the technology,
you don't have the conduit for success, right? You have to have something that marries
it all together from a technological perspective. And there may be outside applications, you know,
that need to interface in some And your business case and understand what the organization is
going to get out of this, and often take that for buy-in or budget or something like
that to be able to execute against it.
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