hello i'm deborah mcgrath senior technical product marketing manager at servicenow in this video i'll be demonstrating servicenow alignment planner workspace with roadmap planning executive strategists program managers and portfolio managers need a dedicated workspace to develop high-level plans to prioritize and manage the strategic initiatives that drive decision-making across their organizations and they need to be able to communicate that strategic thinking to stakeholders to make sure everyone is on the same page and working toward the same goals servicenow roadmap planning provides an end-to-end integrated experience with an elegant ui and powerful visualizations for planning and managing an organization's roadmap initiatives users can create roadmap plans for any type of waterfall or agile project work and display those plans filtered by any desired criteria they can easily adjust plan initiatives with a simple drag and drop and roadmap plans can be shared with others across the organization so everyone will know what the plan is and that they're working on the right things we're logged in as doug an executive strategist who is viewing a list of the roadmap plans he owns he can easily create new roadmaps for demands epics programs projects and other plan tasks have the initiatives filtered by desired criteria and share the plan with stakeholders across the organization including executives mid-level management and individual team members doug is also collaborating on four other plans that have been shared with him the cio pmo roadmap shows him a list of programs on a timeline this roadmap helps guide the organization's delivery teams on what programs they should be working on and when it's easy for doug to add a new item directly from the roadmap planning view without first having to create the task within another application on the servicenow platform doug can group his initiatives by one or more data elements such as by service or corporate strategy as shown here to help him and other stakeholders easily view and consider the plan from a variety of perspectives items can also be categorized by color in this case color coded by business unit to further help display planned work in a way that people will easily understand doug can also choose attributes to display on item bars and hover over a bar to see more selected details dragging and dropping the initiatives enables him to easily move the start or end date of an item or he simply clicks in to see even more item details in order to gain additional business insights about the initiative it's also easy for him to view unscheduled initiatives view and add attachments and collaborate with others about the plan these intuitive interactive roadmaps provide the simple at-a-glance insights for planning and communication needed by any stakeholder you just saw how alignment planner workspace with roadmap planning helps organizations drive decision-making by enabling them to quickly and easily create adjust and communicate their high level plans roadmap planning capabilities including simple drag and drop comprehensive filtering and personalization and powerful visualizations enable users to prioritize and schedule the tasks projects and goals and other initiatives they absolutely must accomplish for additional information visit servicenow.com itbm you