Are you tired of missing important deadlines and struggling to align your team around your product milestones? Do you want to communicate key dates outside your team’s control and raise awareness of their impact on your roadmap? If so, you'll be excited to learn about the new "Events" feature on your roadmap.
Events allow you to identify and communicate significant dates that impact your roadmaps such as new regulations going into effect, tradeshows, cross-team meetings such as quarterly portfolio reviews, and summits. By incorporating these events into your roadmap, you can raise awareness of their significance and provide justification for certain deadlines. This feature is a great visual marker for teams to plan their release and align teams around the deadlines.
Raising Awareness on External High Stakes Deadlines
One of the key benefits of Events is that it allows you to communicate important dates that are out of your control. For example, if you're working on a project that involves compliance with new regulations, you can use Events to identify the date when the regulations will go into effect. By doing so, you can raise awareness of the impact of the regulations on your project and ensure that your team is aware of the deadline.
Be Better Prepared for External Events by Marking the Dates on your Roadmap
Another benefit of Events is that it helps teams plan their releases more effectively. By identifying key events and aligning them with project milestones, teams can plan their work more efficiently and ensure that they meet their deadlines. For example, if you're planning to release a new product at a tradeshow, you can use Events to identify the date of the tradeshow and align it with the product release date. This will help you ensure that your product is ready for the show and that you meet your deadline. Alternatively, your sales or marketing team can become aware of the products and features that will be released before or after an event to plan an unveiling of the product to the market. Product Marketing and Sales can review the latest in product releases and prepare for the event.
Make sure your Team is Prepared to achieve its objectives going into a meeting
In addition to helping teams plan their releases, Events is also a great tool for aligning teams around product milestones. By incorporating events into your roadmap, you can provide a clear timeline for your team and ensure that everyone is working towards the same deadlines. This can be especially helpful for large, cross-functional teams working on complex projects. These events can be pre-set global meetings to approve a product for launch or a cross-functional meeting to approve a product line to go to the next stage.
Group Similar Events Together
With Gocious you can group events into types such as summits, internal reviews, regulatory. Each Event type will have its own color on the roadmap so you can draw the right attention to them. For example you can mark regulatory events as red so that it shows it’s an event that cannot be missed. Users can then select to turn on or off the types of events they want to track helping reduce the noise in the roadmap. It’s communication without the chaos!
Events is a powerful tool that can help you rally the team behind significant milestones that need to be met for your organization to stay competitive. By identifying important events and aligning them with your roadmap, you can raise awareness of their impact and provide justification for certain deadlines. If you haven't tried Events yet, give it a try and see how it can help you improve your product roadmap planning.
