Digital Products — Roadmap¶
Current state: no committed products¶
As of this writing, no product in this venture has been approved for build. This roadmap is intentionally a placeholder rather than a populated schedule, because populating it with dates or committed products before any research or prioritization has happened would misrepresent the venture's actual state.
What exists instead of a schedule¶
- A backlog of 28 candidate product ideas across four categories exists at ../../portfolio/product-backlog.md. These are ideas with problem hypotheses, not commitments.
- A prioritization model exists at ../../portfolio/prioritization-model.md describing how items will eventually be ranked, once research produces signal.
- No item currently has a research date, a build date, or a target launch date.
How this roadmap will populate¶
A product earns a place on this roadmap only after it clears the gates defined by the company-level artifact lifecycle (../../../../docs/architecture/artifact-lifecycle.md), applied here as:
- Backlog — idea exists with a problem hypothesis (current state for all 28 items).
- Research — problem and customer hypotheses are tested; see ../../portfolio/research-backlog.md.
- Definition — a product specification is drafted in
products/<slug>/(brief, data dictionary, calculation specification, test plan). - Build — the product is actually constructed against its specification.
- Test — the product is validated against its test plan and the relevant standards in ../standards/.
- Release — the product ships, with documentation, versioning, and (for marketplace products) a listing that matches tested capability.
Only products that have cleared at least the Definition gate should appear on this roadmap with any indicative timing, and even then, timing should be described as indicative rather than committed unless a human owner has explicitly committed to it.
Next update¶
This document should be updated the first time any backlog item clears the Research gate, at minimum to note which item that is and where its specification lives.