Okuzeka
Management & Leadership vocabulary · Strategy and Planning

Roadmap

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

/ˈroʊdmæp/nounCore term

In management & leadership, roadmap means: A plan that shows the main steps, projects or product features an organisation intends to deliver over time, usually in the order they will happen.

In Turkish: yol haritası

How it is used

Used in strategy, product and technology teams. You build, share or update a roadmap, and an item can be on the roadmap or taken off it. A roadmap is more visual and less detailed than a project plan.

Example sentences

  1. The mobile app is on the roadmap for the second half of the year.

  2. We'll share the three-year roadmap with all managers next week.

Common collocations

  • product roadmap
  • strategic roadmap
  • on the roadmap
  • update the roadmap
  • three-year roadmap
  • strategyA long-term plan that sets out where an organisation wants to go and the main choices it will make to get there, such as which markets to enter and what to stop doing.
  • objectiveA specific, measurable result that a team or organisation plans to achieve by a certain date, usually as one step towards a wider goal.
  • executionThe process of putting a plan or strategy into action and delivering results, as opposed to only designing or discussing it.
  • OKRShort for objectives and key results: a goal-setting method in which each ambitious objective is paired with a few measurable key results that show whether it was achieved.
  • contingency planA plan that describes what an organisation will do if something goes wrong or an unexpected event happens, such as a supplier failing or a key person leaving.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

More terms: Strategy and Planning

Practise with graded reading

Reading at the right level is the fastest way to make new words stick. Pick free English books by level: