Collaboration across geographies and development of shared vision remains one of the key problems in large organizations. In this article, we demonstrate how RMsis can be used by multi-locational teams to effectively collaborate and develop a shared product portfolio roadmap.
The Problem
A large multinational organization wants to chart out a roadmap for it's futuristic products with the following prevailing conditions
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- a set of requirements are allocated to a user, who owns and manages a the requirements.
Establish a
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Prioritization Mechanism
This function is
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- ( priority + criticality ) * votes
- any other alternative ?
generally defined by the user organization. Some of the choices could be
- Number of Votes by Evaluators
- Revenue / Risk
- Σ (Priority*Criticality) for all evaluators
Establish dependencies between Requirements
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Elaborate the Requirements
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Once consensus has been built on high level requirements, respective owners can elaborate the requirements using PDF / MS Word / Wiki documentation and share it with other participants for review.
Define Key Milestones
A list of Milestones is shown below.
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Build Consensus on the Roadmap
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Once the requirements have been reviewed and agreed upon, a baseline can be created for the Plan. The following snapshot depicts one such baseline for the plan.
References and Resources
Demonstration
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