Alastair’s prioritisation model is excellent and shows how a SaaS software company can balance being flexible enough to innovate, while being structured enough to deliver.
Often stakeholders will want to have a detailed roadmap for the next 6-12 months, but as this model shows, anything beyond the next release is up for debate and anything beyond the next 3 months is strategic.
What a roadmap should show are the business and strategic goals, ensuring that the development focus is in the right place, but also allowing it to be fluid enough to meet these goals in the most appropriate way.
