Technical Product Roadmap & Strategy
Create a strategic technical product roadmap that aligns engineering capacity with business objectives. Balance feature development, technical debt, infrastructure improvements, and innovation initiatives.
Why You Need This Service
Without technical leadership, product roadmaps become wishlists disconnected from engineering reality. Features get promised without understanding technical complexity, teams get overwhelmed, and strategic initiatives never happen because all resources go to putting out fires.
What You Get
12-month technical product roadmap
Feature prioritization framework
Technical dependency mapping
Resource allocation plan
Capacity planning model
OKRs and success metrics
Risk mitigation strategies
Quarterly review process
Our Process
Current State Assessment
1 week- Technical architecture review
- Codebase health assessment
- Team velocity analysis
- Technical debt inventory
- Customer feedback analysis
Deliverables: Current state report, Technical debt register, Velocity baseline
Strategy Development
2 weeks- Business objective alignment sessions
- Feature brainstorming and evaluation
- Technical initiative identification
- Competitive analysis
- Resource capacity modeling
Deliverables: Strategic priorities document, Feature evaluation matrix, Resource capacity model
Roadmap Creation
1 week- Timeline development
- Dependency mapping
- Risk assessment
- Milestone definition
- Success metrics establishment
Deliverables: 12-month roadmap, Quarterly objectives, KPI dashboard
Total Timeline: 4 weeks
Investment
Fractional C T O
$5,000-$8,000 for initial roadmap development
Ongoing
$3,000-$5,000/month for quarterly reviews
Total
$20,000-$35,000/year
Expected ROI
Better resource allocation and reduced waste from poorly planned initiatives
Success Story
Series A SaaS company, $3M ARR, 15-person engineering team
Challenge
Product roadmap constantly changing, features taking 3x longer than expected, team morale low from constant firefighting, technical debt spiraling.
Solution
Fractional CTO implemented quarterly planning process, created capacity model accounting for technical debt, established clear prioritization framework with product leadership.
Results
On-time delivery improved from 40% to 85%, team satisfaction score increased from 5.2 to 8.1/10, successfully shipped 3 major features while reducing technical debt by 35%.
Timeline: 1 month to create initial roadmap, ongoing quarterly reviews
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