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12.4 Ideate & Roadmap

Next, you'll assemble a prioritized roadmap with all the ideas for improvement based on your user research. As you complete the tasks listed below and work on your roadmap, remember that the plan you create at this stage is in broad strokes; some of it will include guesswork. In a real-world situation, collaborators, such as your design and engineering teams, will help you make informed estimates. For the sake of this project, your best guess is good enough.

Complete the following tasks.

  1. Compile a list of proposed solutions based on what you learned from product research. If your research led to lots of ideas for product improvements, it would be a useful exercise for you to capture them. In this stage, you can list as many ideas as you can. For the next steps in this checkpoint, you'll want to focus on only 8-12 solutions.
  2. Prioritize the solutions using one of the methods you learned about in this phase. Choose between RICE and MoSCoW and prioritize your list. This is best done in a spreadsheet, just like you practiced in the assignment on those checkpoints.
  3. Estimate the time each feature will take to develop (guesswork is okay). Come up with a ballpark estimate (such as two days or two weeks) for how long you think each feature would take to develop. It's okay if you don't really know; you can still estimate which features will require lots of work (such as those that are complex or unusual) and which are easier to achieve. You will learn more about getting such estimates from your development team in the next phase. For now, your estimates can be very rough.
  4. Identify the top prioritized item on your solution list.

Assignment

Create a prioritized list and add it to your notion page/ google doc.

There is nothing to submit here, you will submit everything together in the end