Program Management

CHAPTER 14Adaptable Roadmaps

This chapter focuses on the adaptable change roadmaps and how diversity of views and cocreation strengthen benefits traceability and stakeholders’ satisfaction. It is important to understand the impact of when program roadmaps are designed and adapted around value. Adaptability is a key quality in future program roadmaps to address the high degree of complexity and uncertainty encountered in program work. Rediscovering how we plan, adjust, and refine our roadmaps requires a learning appetite on the part of program leaders and team members. This pays off in enabling the creation of relevant and guiding roadmaps for programs’ success.

Key Learnings

• Get immersed into the importance of closely sensing stakeholders’ needs and the balancing of the fitting light governance
• Learn the critical importance of cocreation to secure shared ownership
• Learn how to value and consistently practice extracting diverse perspectives to support traceability and securing ownership of benefits
• Develop a strong appreciation of how cultural understanding enables critical ownership and contributes to the success of adaptable leadership practices

14.1 VALUE‐BASED PROGRAM ROADMAPS

Key Learnings

• Building on the ideas of the change scientists and the core team
• The foundational enablers like the roadmaps that help us adapt and stay focused on achieving change
• Making sure that in what we design as roadmaps, the value‐based ingredient is increasing the effectiveness ...