What organization do you work with?

I like how you extended this to road-mapping a future state. The one challenge with this is with the diagram in play, it’s hard to show progression over time outside of one step. The most beneficial view would likely show how multiple technologies evolve together, with milestones/critical dependencies and other parts of the business. Need to think about this more.

something that i’ve been saying of late, and probably more relevant to back-office type programmes is that technology innovation in enterprise should be mirrored by an equal change in culture and/or business processes.

If the output of a programme is a technology product/deliverable – it stands to reason that the business would need to re-engineer its culture and/or processes to maximise the impact of said deliverable.

Otherwise one is merely reskinning a proposition.

One of the challenges in my operating context is that techies are not naturally equipped to play nice in a true cross-functional teams.

In facing some of these challenges head-on I’ve been playing with a number of different tools and toys to break the executional thinking of maps.

In a ‘nudge’ manner of behavioural change I’ve started mapping current state features of an existing landscape. This seeks to apply a design lense in a manner that moves the technologist away from solving a problem using a tech-how-do-i lense to a more customer-centric propositional design lense.

I’d go as far as to question whether technologists should be defining product visions. In this instance I use the technologist as an executional delivery developer.