Roadmapping Services

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What is Roadmapping? Roadmapping is the process of creating strategic visual plans that show how an organization moves from its current state to a desired future state. A roadmap outlines goals, initiatives, milestones, dependencies, investments, ownership, process indicators, and timelines in a single, clear, and structured view.

In Dragon1, roadmapping is the practice of creating visualizations of enterprise change over time. These visualizations help stakeholders understand direction, impact, dependencies, and sequencing of change across business and IT domains.

This is an example of the roadmapping services for creating a business services roadmap.

What are Dragon1 Roadmaps? In Dragon1, a roadmap is not a plan. It is a visual representation (or multiple visual representations) of how an organization evolves from its current state toward a target architecture.

With roadmapping in Dragon 1, you can visualize, for example:

• Business capabilities and their maturity over time
• Application lifecycles (introduce, change, retire)
• Technology evolution and platform shifts
• Data architecture improvements
• Transformation initiatives and their impact
• Dependencies between changes
• Strategic objectives and their realization path

These roadmaps show how elements of the enterprise change over time in the organization.

Creating Roadmaps for You in Collaboration

We have created a roadmapping services for you, and if you want, we can create one or more roadmaps for you. You and your team members can give feedback on the roadmap anytime, anywhere via the Viewer on your iPad and Smartphone.

Dragon1 platform and its specialized roadmapping tools enable close collaborations between us, like the Workplace with its messaging features, Data Manager, Visual Designer, and Viewer.

How does it work?

Suppose you want to create a technology or strategic roadmap:

• We will first create a project or campaign with a deadline and plan the activities or schedule the tasks to execute.
• You will then collect the necessary and available data, for instance, in an Excel sheet.
• Next, we will upload the data automatically and enrich the data manually.
• Then we will build a visual roadmap using the data, and you will comment on the roadmap visualization.
• We will iterate this cycle four or five times in two or three weeks.

We will be using all the important features in the web applications to perform the task:

• In the Data Manager, we also will upload and import the data. And we will show you how to do that yourself at any time. You can take over this work at any time if you like.

• In the Visual Designer, we will build a model using the data and build a view and visualization on top of the model. Also, we will demonstrate how it provides a comprehensive explanation and how to use the Dragon1 software. We will eventually provide you with everything you need to do it yourself.

• In the Viewer, you will watch the published intermediate versions. Furthermore, the roadmap allows filtering multiple selections to view the roadmap, including filtering by individuals and changes made, and applying these filters to workflow people as part of the product workflow.

Often, a roadmap is part of a bigger plan. If you prefer, you can create in time all the deliverables and a complete presentation on the platform, working with a single source of truth, thus increasing the quality of data you use.

The Big Five Roadmaps

Dragon1 is not only an EAM platform. It is also a method for Enterprise Architecture. As part of that, we have defined the Big Five:

• #1, Strategic Roadmaps / Business Roadmaps
• #2, Product Roadmaps
• #3, Technology Roadmaps / IT Services / Applications Roadmaps
• #4, Scenario Roadmaps
• #5, Transformation Roadmaps

Scenario Roadmapping Example

A scenario roadmap maps strategic business outcomes to specific IT and operational changes over time using what-if scenario views.

This is an example of the roadmapping services for creating roadmaps for scenarios for an educational program.

Applications Roadmapping Example

An applications roadmap maps software assets to business strategies over time. It displays system lifecycles, dependencies, and transformation milestones (e.g., migrating to cloud, application rationalization).

This is an example of the roadmapping services for creating a roadmap for the lifecycle of applications.

Product Roadmapping Example

A product roadmap is used to communicate changes and directions in technology and strategy, together with the main phases, stages, and activities. These roadmaps can be viewed as high-level planning focused on communicating change.

This is an example of the roadmapping services for creating roadmaps for a product introduction.