Step 2 · Strategy

The Software Roadmap: how do your processes become software?

Two days of workshop: process analysis, user story mapping and the MVP cut, together with your team. Afterwards we create a click dummy as a tangible preview and your roadmap with stages and an effort estimate. Before the first line of code, you know what will be built, in what order and within what frame.

Request the Software Roadmap · 7,499.00 €How the roadmap works
Who is the roadmap for?

For companies that want to build, but not blindly.

The direction is set: away from workarounds and Excel side-ledgers, toward software that reflects your process. What is missing is the plan. The Software Roadmap is for you if you recognize at least one of these sentences:

  • “We know we want to build, but not where to start.”
  • “Before I invest six figures, I want to see what I am getting.”
  • “Our most important process lives in the heads of three people.”
  • “I need a plan with numbers for management and shareholders.”
What you get

Three things you hold in your hand afterwards.

Click dummy

The most important screens of your future software, clickable and tangible. You and your people see the process in the software before a line of code exists.

Roadmap with stages

The build-out stages of your software, prioritized and with an effort estimate per stage. Every stage is bookable on its own, and none commits you to the next.

MVP cut

Stage 1 is your MVP: the most important process in fully usable form. That way your people work with the software early, instead of waiting years for the big launch.

How the roadmap works

Two days of workshop, then we work for you.

1 · Process analysis

Day 1: we break down your workflows. What makes your company special, where does it jam, which workarounds have crept in? With the people who live the process every day.

2 · User story mapping

Day 2: we break the process down together on the wall into user stories, prioritize the build-out stages and cut the MVP. At the end there is the map of your software.

3 · Click dummy & roadmap

Afterwards we work: from the story map come the click dummy and your roadmap with stages and an effort estimate. What you invest here: nothing.

4 · Debrief

We go through the click dummy and roadmap together and answer open questions. That ends the roadmap, with no obligation to a stage.

Price & crediting

Fixed price. Two credits.

User story mapping on the sticky-note wall with André and Joel Krämer
Strategy

The Software Roadmap

Two days of workshop with process analysis, user story mapping and the MVP cut, then the click dummy, the roadmap with stages and an effort estimate, plus a debrief. Carried out by André Krämer or one of our senior architects. All prices net plus VAT.

If you did the Software Compass beforehand, its 749.00 € are fully credited. If you then commission Stage 1, 25 % of the roadmap price (1,875.00 €) goes into the crediting.

7,499.00 €Fixed price · 2 days + click dummy Software Compass (749.00 €) fully credited25 % (1,875.00 €) credited toward Stage 1

And if you go the whole way?

Software Compass 749.00 €→Software Roadmap 7,499.00 € 6,750.00 €→Stage 1 − 1,875.00 €

The roadmap is step 2 of the Custom Software journey: the Software Compass is fully credited toward the roadmap, and the roadmap at 25 % toward your first stage.

Proven tools, no experiment

This is how the software a customer founded a company for came about.

We have used user story mapping workshops and click dummies for years on custom projects. At Systemische Hilfen Niederrhein, no off-the-shelf software fit the special process of placing integration staff. We broke down the workflows, cut the MVP and delivered in phases, each one usable right away. The result was so convincing that SHN founded Erna Software GmbH to license the solution to similar companies.

The Software Roadmap turns exactly this approach into a bookable format with a fixed price. And honestly: if the two days show that your project is smaller than expected, that goes into the roadmap just the same. You commission stages, not mammoth projects.

Request the Software Roadmap · 7,499.00 €
Frequently asked questions

Answered clearly.

What is the click dummy, and what can we do with it?

A clickable draft of the most important screens of your future software, still without programming behind it. You see how your process feels in the software before the first stage is commissioned. The click dummy is also useful for convincing employees and shareholders of the project.

Who from our side needs to take part in the two days?

The people who live the process every day, and the decision-maker. In user story mapping we break down your workflows together, and that only works with the knowledge from your team. Plan for two full days for those involved.

How does it continue after the roadmap, and what does the implementation cost?

The roadmap names an effort estimate for every stage, and Stage 1 is your MVP. Whether and when you commission a stage is your decision, no obligation arises. If you commission Stage 1 with us, 25 % of the roadmap price (1,875.00 €) is credited.

Can we also take the roadmap to another provider?

Yes. The roadmap and click dummy belong to you and are written so that any experienced development team can work with them. We are convinced you will want to go on with us, but we do not want to make you dependent on that.

Does the workshop take place at our place or yours?

Both are possible: on site at your place or with us in Bad Breisig. User story mapping thrives on working together at the wall, which is why we recommend being on site. The workshop is carried out by André Krämer or one of our senior architects.

Still unsure?

Start one step earlier: with the Software Compass.

If it is not yet settled whether custom software is even the right path, the Software Compass clarifies that: 90 minutes of strategy conversation for 749.00 €, with a results guarantee. The price is fully credited toward the roadmap.

To the Software Compass
The next step

Request the Software Roadmap.

Write us a short note about what it is about. We will get back to you within one working day with proposed dates. You talk to someone who understands processes and software.

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+49 2633 4899 430 · info@qualitybytes.de

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