The benefits of using Project Roadmap
Christopher Pond
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I've seen many very good items on LinkedIn about Microsoft's new Project Roadmap capability - how to set it up and how to use it.
This is the start of a number of changes for the Project Service within Office 365. In fact, after the initial release, there's already been an update to allow you to add items to a Roadmap from the schedule page in PWA (view more at Paul Mather's blog).
And if you need supporting getting it made available in your Office 365 environment, @Chris Boyd has produced this useful email pro-forma.
The reasons to use Project Home and Roadmap are variable and will continue to change as the new Project Service continues to deliver additional capabilities.
- Individuals can create and share their own Roadmaps across multiple Project Online schedules and Azure Boards
- PMOs / EPMOs etc. can create and share Roadmaps across multiple Project Online schedules and Azure Boards
- In both cases these can be Private or Publicly visible
The benefit is that Roadmaps provide near time visibility across your project portfolio, update on a timed basis. This enables you to understand the current status and make decisions more quickly on up to date information.
It can also help reduce / halt the time consuming cut, copy, paste, manual creation of Roadmap style views in PowerPoint, Visio and Excel (in my 20 years in the PPM arena I've seen some quite amazing things that people have enabled these products to achieve). In the UK we would call this "the cottage industry of report creation".
Here at CPS - Microsoft Partner of the Year 2018 (Project & Portfolio Management) and edison365 - we'll continue to keep you up to date with the latest capabilities - and most importantly - the benefits of using them as individuals and across your organisation.