Perspective
The hardest roadmap question is what you are not going to do
Technology roadmap and strategy
Most technology roadmaps are too long. They accumulate everything the business wants, everything IT has been asked to address, and everything that seems strategically important, without forcing the prioritization conversation that determines what is actually achievable with the resources and time available. The discipline of a good roadmap process is not in capturing all the options. It is in having the explicit conversation about what gets deprioritized, who accepts that decision, and what the criteria are for revisiting it.
Further reading · CIO.com
5 IT Roadmap Gotchas in a Disruptive Era
This is the kind of problem I help companies work through.
If your technology roadmap keeps slipping or drifting from where the business is headed, that is the conversation.
I work as a fractional CIO or CTO for companies that need senior technology leadership without a full-time hire.