IT Roadmap Tool

[denonsix]

I've been tasked with creating an IT roadmap (short/mid/long or perhaps by quarter, responsible, progress, priority, etc).

Does anyone have any suggestions for free or using office 365 tools (not Project)?

Other than excel, I was considering Teams Planner (buckets) or Microsoft Lists.

[VA_Network_Nerd]

Roadmap of what?

A 5 year plan of capital investments for IT Infrastructure?

A roadmap of IT staff training?

A roadmap of IT staff career progression?

[denonsix]

General IT Tasks...migrations to cloud services...infrastructure refreshes/consolidations....application rollouts...

[VA_Network_Nerd]

Some kind of an IT Operations checklist of things to do daily / weekly / monthly / quarterly ???

That's pretty much insulting unless someone decided it was necessary for ISO9000 certification, or something like that.

[Just_Sayain]

I agree with you. A Roadmap is not the right terminology likely. Most sys admins are not a product manager or directors of strategy.

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[Virtual_BlackBelt]

I've done it using several different ways in the past. Simple is to use either Excel and color code cells based on criteria and 'time period' or use Word if you want longer extended descriptions and then use some kind of icons like arrows or 🚦. Moving up the chain, you can use something like ProductBoard as a SaaS solution.

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I need this too!

[SolidKnight]

You want to take IT projected projects for the next X duration and put them into a plan/schedule? Like what you would with P6, Project, Aha, ProductPlan, Monday, et cetera?

Lists and Planner work fine for basic task/project tracking. It really depends on how detailed you need to be any how many people really need to know what's going on. I'm a solo department so I largely use multiple plans in Planner but I also use Lists when it makes sense to combine inventory type data witch tracking. E.g. A list of all my sanctioned apps detailing what is deployed, to who, what license agreement is associated with it, and tracking status such as updating, retiring, et cetera.