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Technology Strategy & Roadmap
Define and Communicate the Technology Vision
✅ What’s expected
Craft a tech vision aligned with business outcomes (e.g., scalability, velocity, stability)
Make it clear, inspiring, and actionable for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
🛠️ Tools
Notion / Confluence – write and share the tech vision
Miro / FigJam – visualize evolution of architecture or capabilities
Loom / Slides – communicate the vision in All-Hands or async updates
🏆 Best Practices
Anchor vision in business objectives (OKRs, product roadmap)
Use Capability Maps or Wardley Mapping to communicate maturity/gaps
Review and update vision quarterly or bi-annually
📌 Example
“Our tech vision is to evolve our monolith into modular services, enabling faster releases and team autonomy by Q4.”
Develop a Rolling Technology Roadmap
✅ What’s expected
Maintain a clear, prioritized 6–18 month roadmap covering product features, infra, and technical improvements
🛠️ Tools
Maintain a clear, prioritized 6–18 month roadmap covering product features, infra, and technical improvements
Productboard – if integrated with product planning
Google Sheets – for lightweight visibility when formal tools are too heavy
🏆 Best Practices
Structure roadmap by themes: Product Delivery, Platform, DevEx, Risk/Compliance
Revisit roadmap monthly or quarterly
Communicate with time horizons (Now / Next / Later)
Ensure Scalability, Security, and Compliance
✅ What’s expected
Build foundations that scale safely, stay secure, and comply with relevant regulations (GDPR, PCI-DSS, etc.)
🛠️ Tools
AWS Well-Architected Tool – to review against cloud best practices
Terraform / Pulumi – infrastructure-as-code for scalable and auditable infra
Vanta / Drata – for early-stage compliance automation
🏆 Best Practices
Apply 12-Factor App principles
Align with OWASP Top 10, CIS Benchmarks, GDPR data flows
Define non-functional requirements (NFRs) like uptime, latency, and data retention
Foster Collaboration and Engineering Culture
✅ What’s expected
Create a culture of ownership, transparency, and experimentation
🛠️ Tools
Donut / Geekbot / 1:1s – build relationships across teams
Notion / Confluence – for engineering principles and values
Slack AMA channels – CTO-level transparency and open discussion
🏆 Best Practices
Define and promote engineering principles (e.g., “build for change,” “measure before optimizing”)
Hold regular engineering all-hands or demos
Encourage bottom-up idea contribution to roadmap
Prioritize Technical Initiatives That Enable Product and Growth
✅ What’s expected
Invest engineering time where it unlocks speed, scale, or strategic differentiation
🛠️ Tools
RICE / WSJF frameworks – for prioritizing initiatives
Engineering Impact Scorecards – to communicate ROI of internal projects
Retool / Airplane.dev – to quickly build internal tools for scale
🏆 Best Practices
Balance short-term delivery with long-term tech health
Use impact vs effort scoring for platform initiatives
Routinely reassess priorities based on product feedback and infra insights
Align Domain Strategy with Broader Company Objectives
✅ What’s expected
Ensure your tech strategy isn’t siloed — it should support and extend company-wide goals
🛠️ Tools
Company OKRs (via Gtmhub, Quantive, or Google Sheets)
Quarterly strategy reviews with product, marketing, and leadership
Strategy docs linking tech roadmap to business goals
🏆 Best Practices
Translate company goals (e.g., improve LTV, expand market) into tech levers (e.g., personalization, infra reliability)
Hold quarterly OKR syncs across departments
Evaluate and Adopt the Right Technologies
✅ What’s expected
Lead (or delegate) technology evaluation — don’t chase hype, but don’t fall behind
🛠️ Tools
Tech Radar (ThoughtWorks model) – adapted in Notion
StackShare / GitHub Trends – for ecosystem visibility
Lightweight RFC process – to vet new tool adoption
🏆 Best Practices
Evaluate new tech based on fit, maturity, community, and ROI
Pilot with a small internal project before broad rollout
Document decisions in ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)