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title: "Run a monthly roadmap review"
description: "A four-step monthly routine to check the roadmap against results, retire work that no longer matters, and leave with decisions every team can explain."
url: https://lidvizion.ai/guides/run-a-monthly-roadmap-review/
site: Lid Vizion
index: https://lidvizion.ai/llms.txt
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# Run a monthly roadmap review

A four-step monthly routine to check the roadmap against results, retire work that no longer matters, and leave with decisions every team can explain.

For: Founders, product owners and leadership teams whose roadmap is either frozen or changes every week.

A roadmap is a set of bets. Without a regular review, it either goes stale while the business changes or gets rewritten every time someone has a new idea. A short monthly review keeps it honest: what shipped, what it changed, what to stop, and what comes next.

## Step 1 — Prepare one page

**Goal:** Bring evidence, not opinions, into the room.

1. List what shipped since the last review and the outcome each was meant to change.
2. Show the measure for each outcome, even if the answer is “not yet known”.
3. List new requests and problems that arrived, grouped by theme.
4. Note anything blocked and why.

**You finish with:** A one-page pre-read shared before the meeting.

## Step 2 — Review results

**Goal:** Learn from what already shipped.

1. For each shipped item, decide: working, not working, or too early to tell.
2. Agree follow-up work only where the evidence supports it.
3. Record what the team learned about customers.
4. Keep the discussion on outcomes, not on who was right.

**You finish with:** A short record of results and lessons.

## Step 3 — Decide what changes

**Goal:** Adjust the roadmap on purpose.

1. Stop or shelve items that no longer serve a current goal.
2. Add new items only by naming what they replace.
3. Confirm the next cycle’s top priorities and their owners.
4. Check capacity so the plan is realistic.

**You finish with:** An updated roadmap with explicit stops and adds.

## Step 4 — Communicate

**Goal:** Make sure everyone hears the same story.

1. Share the decisions and the reasons in writing the same day.
2. Tell sales and support what changed and what to say to customers.
3. Update the roadmap tool so it matches the decisions.
4. Set the date of the next review.

**You finish with:** A written update and a roadmap that matches it.

## Common pitfalls

- Reviewing activity instead of outcomes.
- Adding work without naming what it replaces.
- Decisions that live only in the meeting.
- Skipping the review when things are busy.

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## See it as a workflow

- [A product roadmap reset](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/product-roadmap-reset/): Leadership Replace a roadmap made of requests with a short list of outcomes, priorities and owners that engineering and leadership both trust.

## More guides like this

- [Publish release notes every release](https://lidvizion.ai/guides/publish-release-notes-every-release/)
- [Run a weekly product metrics review](https://lidvizion.ai/guides/run-a-weekly-product-metrics-review/)

## Related answers

- [What does a fractional product leader do?](https://lidvizion.ai/answers/what-does-a-fractional-product-leader-do/)
- [When should a company hire a fractional product leader?](https://lidvizion.ai/answers/when-should-a-company-hire-a-fractional-product-leader/)

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