Build a strategic IT roadmap
Proactively plan and deliver the technical capabilities your internal users need
Define key IT initiatives
IT makes the business go — it provides the critical technology that powers company growth. Not only do you have to keep things running smoothly right now, but you also have to plan for the future. Set clear goals, OKRs, and initiatives to capture big areas of investment, and create a strategic roadmap that shows the timeline for accomplishing them.
Discover what teams need
Give internal teams one place to share feedback. Use a private ideas portal to streamline the way you collect, review, and prioritize incoming requests. Categorize requests by department and promote impactful opportunities directly to your roadmap. Keep your colleagues informed of status to build transparency and goodwill.
Set clear priorities
Every IT team knows that there are more projects than people and time. Base prioritization decisions on your high-level strategy and what internal users need most. Make sound investments with the resources you have, managing your budget, tracking costs, and optimizing team workload to set realistic delivery dates.
Track dependencies
Bring clarity to the way you plan and implement complex IT rollouts. Standardize release templates, workflows, and approval processes. Then, capture every date, deliverable, and dependency needed to ensure project success. Create a Gantt chart and share it internally so everyone knows the timing for new tools and technology updates.
Showcase results
Show how IT contributes value to the organization. Create a dashboard to track progress against your goals in real time and demonstrate the impact of IT investments. Report on delivery data (including initiative status, rollout progress, and the number of monthly updates shipped) to support each area of the business.
Key capabilities for IT teams
Establish a workspace | Use a purpose-built workspace for IT teams in Aha! Roadmaps with custom workflows and templates | |
Set IT strategy | Define goals and initiatives (including OKRs) and show how planned work ties to your strategy | |
Prioritize investments | Set budgets, track costs, and assess team capacity to make informed IT investment decisions | |
Build a roadmap | Choose from a variety of roadmap templates to communicate IT plans with internal stakeholders | |
Collect internal requests | Create a private ideas portal where colleagues can submit feedback and vote for existing requests | |
Prioritize work | Use scorecards to assess the impact of each item in the backlog and rank them in priority order | |
Coordinate delivery | Plan releases to manage complex rollouts and track dependencies between work items to mitigate risk | |
Report on KPIs | Analyze IT data with 75+ example reports and create charts and dashboards to show strategic impact | |
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