Showing dependencies on your roadmap

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Benefit

Logistical dependencies are useful to see on the roadmap when planning out your strategy, making sure that the outcomes you expect to achieve are feasible.

This is particularly important when working with a high volume of product roadmaps (maybe where your product roadmap is split by delivery team as opposed to user value), as dependencies like this could be spread across multiple roadmaps.

How to do it

Find the initiative card, prompt the slideout and grab the card’s URL.

Add the URL to the relevant blocked initiative, with a note to say what’s blocking it. In the below example, we've noted the blocking Initiative in the description and inserted the URL into its name, just to keep things tidy. For a little extra flair, use some emojis!

Add a "dependency" tag and use the filters to make sure you have the visibility needed.

When communicating strategy to your leadership team; you can now easily show which initiatives are dependent on each other, and clearly present all the relevant information needed to move forward. Risks? What risks? You’ve got a hold on this now.