[Epic] Create and publish a Network Goods Roadmap

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What

Create a public and iterative roadmap that shows the hypothesis and experiments Network Goods is conducting in the space, and how they answer specific questions or add new capabilities to the Public Goods Space.

This experiment, in particular, wants to test the hypothesis of roadmapping as a network coordination tool that promotes collaboration between projects and organizations by highlighting paths for joint experimentation, complementarity, or deduplication of efforts, hence optimizing resource allocation and maximizing impact.

Using the internal and independent efforts within Network Goods as a sandbox to detail and evaluate the utility of the roadmapping process, we want to gather user feedback and list a clear set of requirements for the adoption of roadmaps as the go-to strategic alignment tool between independent but related entities in a given space.

Why

Roadmapping is often seen as a holy grail to solve coordination problems. And despite several efforts to define them, the definition of roadmapping is ample and has multiple interpretations.

• We claim that one of the main reasons roadmapping is not an effective coordination instrument is because people downplay the effort it takes to create and maintain it.
  • Roadmapping is both a knowledge-sharing activity and a tool for coordination, but the roadmap itself is an invitation to continue the permissionless dialogue and sharing of visions and milestones.
• Stakeholders fail to see the added value of the process of roadmapping itself - sharing knowledge, discussing assumptions and hypotheses, and deciding on the next best bet based on their own metrics - because there's no guidelines, references or demos on how to do it best.

How

This Epic/Initiative is done when:

🥇 We have demonstrated the utility* of a roadmap to coordinate and align strategies of independent initiatives. There's a public roadmap that people can contribute to, and the Network Good Roadmap serves as an invitation to other public goods organizations and entities in the space to expand the roadmap, sharing their knowledge, and hypotheses and allocating joint resources to drive quantifiable progress.

🥈 We have a documented process of creating the Network Goods Roadmaps, including DO's and Don'ts, that can be used by others to map different areas of activity.

🥈 We have a public iterable roadmap that communicates the work Network Goods is conducting in the public Goods space, which can be easily* updatable on a pre-defined cadence to share SitRep of the various projects.

*concept needs to be defined with stakeholders.

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References

• Digital Public Goods Alliance Roadmap