Key Result Tagging: Outcome vs Output vs Input

The Measurement Hierarchy That Separates Motion from Progress

Stop celebrating deliverables while impact stalls—tag key results as Outcomes (impact achieved), Outputs (deliverables produced), or Inputs (activities performed) to measure what actually moves the business.

Key Result Tagging: R&D Tax Credit

From Engineering Work to Tax Relief—Tagging What Qualifies

Turn qualifying R&D work into tax relief by tagging key results that prove technical uncertainty, systematic investigation, and genuine innovation—making claims audit-ready before HMRC comes knocking.

Key Result Tagging: Validation Method

Experiments vs Assumptions—The Difference Between Science and Wishful Thinking

Distinguish hypothesis-driven experiments from assumption-based guesses—tag how you're validating key results to expose which teams build on data and which gamble on intuition.

Objective Tagging: Core vs Context

Crossing the Chasm by stopping the Resource Drain on Work That Won't Win the Market

How Geoffrey Moore's Core-versus-Context distinction helps SaaS leaders protect differentiation, outsource the ordinary, and explain tough resourcing calls to the board.

Objective Tagging: Customer Journey Stage

From First Touch to Loyal Advocate—Mapping Roadmap Work to Lifecycle Stages

Map your roadmap to the customer lifecycle—Awareness, Consideration, Conversion, Retention—and ensure balanced investment across every stage from first touch to loyal advocate.

Objective Tagging: Jobs-to-be-Done

Why Customers Hire Your Product—and How to Tag Your Roadmap Accordingly

Stop building features and start hiring your product for jobs—Functional tasks, Emotional desires, and Social aspirations—that reveal why customers truly choose you.

Objective Tagging: Kano Maps

Using Kano Maps to Build Love, Not Just Loyalty

Leveraging the Kano model—Must-Have, Performance, and Delighter attributes—to balance foundational reliability with wow moments on the product roadmap.

Objective Tagging: McKinsey's Three Horizons of Growth

How RoadmapOne users can use McKinsey's Three-Horizons model to structure short-term wins, mid-term bets, and long-term moon-shots without starving any of them.

Objective Tagging: Pirate Metrics (AARRR)

Charting the Customer Voyage from First Click to Profit

A deep dive into Dave McClure's "Pirate Metrics", showing product teams how AARRR tagging reveals funnel leaks, drives focused experimentation, and turns growth conversations with the board from foggy to forensic.

Objective Tagging: SAFe Enablers vs Business Features

Giving Platform Work the Story it Deserves

Demystifying SAFe's Enabler-type backlog items and showing product teams how explicit tagging sharpens conversations with technical architects and boards alike.

Objective Tagging: SVPG Product Risks

Categorising Value, Usability, Feasibility, and Business Viability to de-risk the Roadmap

Using Marty Cagan's four product-risk categories—Value, Usability, Feasibility, Business Viability—to tag roadmap items, focus discovery, and make risk mitigation a first-class metric.

Objective Tagging: The Balanced Scorecard

Turning Strategy into Everyday Product Choices

Translating Kaplan & Norton's Balanced Scorecard into a roadmap-tagging lens that aligns product portfolios with strategy through Financial, Customer, Internal Process, and Learning & Growth perspectives.

Objective Tagging: The BCG Product Portfolio: Stars, Cows, Question Marks, Dogs

Letting the BCG Matrix Tell You When to Milk and When to Feed

Applying the classic BCG Growth-Share Matrix (Stars, Cash Cows, Question Marks, Dogs) to product portfolios and showing how roadmap tagging clarifies funding bets.

Objective Tagging: The Innovation Ambition Matrix

Escaping the Core Comfort Zone

Use RoadmapOne to align ExCo on your your Product Roadmap. Analyse according to a dozen resource allocation models, including the Innovation Ambition Matrix. Instantly categorise Objectives according to Core, Adjacent, and Transformational.

OKRs for Product Teams

Many product teams struggle to implement OKRs in a way that drives meaningful outcomes rather than becoming another bureaucratic checkbox exercise.

Size REALLY Matters: Finding the Squad Size Sweet Spot

Discover how squad size impacts planning effectiveness, why individual-level planning creates fragility, and how to structure teams for accountability and successful delivery.

Start with Why: Why We Are Building RoadmapOne

In 'Start with Why', Simon Sinek's proposes that great leaders and organizations inspire action by first explaining *why* they do what they do before explaining *what* they do or *how* they do it. So here's our Why...