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Work from customer needs to product functions, compare technology options, then check the evidence and capacity behind the next commitment.
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Agree the equipment family, planning horizon, participants and next commitment.
Record source, observation, interpretation, confidence and the remaining question.
Connect needs, product functions and candidate technologies. Keep unknown and adverse relationships visible.
Put evidence and decision gates before the commitments they must inform.
Expose competing demands on engineers before agreeing the sequence.
Name who maintains the map and what finding would change the choice.
An original fictional industrial monitoring example informed by the published IfM T-Plan approach. Method credits and direct references are included. The pack complements the original IfM resources.
Explore the connected example in your browserAn industrial example of separating the function a product must provide from the technology that might deliver it, with an evidence checklist and a linking grid.
Read the worked example →Prepare a product and technology roadmapping discussion using a fictional industrial monitoring example, four workshop jobs and editable evidence and decision records.
Read the worked example →Compare an industrial technology pilot with a competing engineering project, check capacity and dependencies, and make the next investment decision explicit.
Read the worked example →Three short InnovationFlow.app walkthroughs using the Bike of the Future training example. Captions carry the explanation, so you can watch without sound.
A roadmap changes. The reason should stay with it.
Open an item’s lineage to inspect its recorded events.
See the image change and the reason recorded with it.
Keep the change, its author and its reasoning available for the next review.
Three promising projects may need the same engineers at the same time.
Read the monthly capacity limit alongside the peak demand.
Then inspect when the engineering demand peaks.
Review the sequence before committing. Make the resource assumptions visible.
Useful workshop detail is easily lost between a meeting and the next roadmap review.
Open the item to see its description, image and discussion.
The cargo concept carries a specific user-test question.
Keep practical questions beside the item your team is developing.
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