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Roadmap

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈroʊdmæp/nounCore term

In software engineering, roadmap means: A high-level plan that shows what a product team intends to work on over the coming months or quarters, and why, without detailing every task.

In Turkish: yol haritası, ürün yol haritası

How it is used

Shared with leadership, sales and customers in different versions. Teams build, update, present and commit to a roadmap. Many PMs prefer roadmaps organized around problems or goals rather than fixed dates, because dates create promises that are hard to keep.

Example sentences

  1. Offline mode is on the roadmap for Q3, but it isn't a firm commitment yet.

  2. Sales keeps promising features that aren't on the roadmap.

Common collocations

  • product roadmap
  • on the roadmap
  • share the roadmap
  • roadmap review
  • update the roadmap
  • milestoneAn agreed point in development when specific work must be delivered and reviewed, such as a playable demo, alpha or beta; publishers often pay the studio per milestone.
  • timelineThe planned order and dates of the main steps of a piece of work, from the start to the launch.

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