Intranet Rollout Project Roadmap
This is a practical guide to building a project roadmap for an intranet rollout project — a strategic, outcome-oriented view of direction over time, adapted to the realities of launching a company intranet or digital workplace.
What a Project Roadmap is
A project roadmap is a strategic, outcome-oriented view of direction over time. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Project Roadmap. On an intranet rollout project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for an Intranet Rollout project
Intranet Rollout projects live or die on launching a company intranet or digital workplace. A well-built project roadmap gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how intranet rollout projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Themes / workstreams
- Milestones by quarter
- Dependencies
- Outcomes
Intranet Rollout-specific considerations
Tailor the project roadmap to the risks that most often derail intranet rollout projects:
- Content ownership
- Adoption
- Search and information architecture
Example
On a real intranet rollout project, the project roadmap would be shaped by launching a company intranet or digital workplace. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — content ownership, adoption, search and information architecture — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.