Creating a Project Vision, Roadmap and Project Planning

A project without a vision - and a roadmap - to achieve that vision, is doomed to fail!

The project vision is the map that will guide you and your team to your destination. The product owner establishes this before any work begins. The vision tells you, your team, everyone really, where you're going and what valuable product or enhancement you'll deliver at the end to the client.

To determine your project vision you're going to have a meeting with the product owner. This meeting scheduled in your respective calendars, please attend these at the given time! After that meeting, you're going to all have an online session together to create the roadmap together using Jira!

The roadmap decomposes the project vision into small functional features or slices of work that help us achieve the vision; it's like a high-level project planning. The roadmap is something we're going to create using Jira, a project management software environment.

Blended Learning

• Please complete the Learning Jira Software course on Linkedin Learning which you can find here. Make sure to complete the course before your meeting with the product owner!

Today's objectives

After your meeting with the product owner, you and your team should get together online or in-person to start working on your project and complete the following objectives using Jira and Microsoft Teams:

• Form project teams.
• Assign project roles (PO, SM, dev. team)
• Set the vision for your project
• Set-up Jira and populate the project page.
• Plan a roadmap in Jira.
• Take a look at tomorrow's objectives, and plan a stand-up and sprint planning meeting for tomorrow

Now that we've created the roadmap, we're ready for tomorrow! Tomorrow, we'll take our next step: planning our first sprint; it's like a low-level project planning. We're also going to learn more about these stand-ups we've been doing and we'll learn about doing a sprint retrospectives after we've wrapped up a sprint!