<aside> 💡

We built & open-sourced this for startup people teams that want a simple template they can use when building their People & Culture Roadmap. If you’re struggling with how to build your roadmap, you might find our roadmap playbook helpful too. That lives in our content hub, accessible with our Content Pass ✨ which you can try for free here

🧠 Card Layout (Goal-Outcome-Action Format)

Each roadmap card should reflect why this exists, how it connects to the business, and what success looks like.

The level of detail needed is more a reflection of how your company likes to do this kinda thing but a good starter kit is below:

Card Template Example:

🧩 Initiative Name: Manager Enablement Sprint

Linked Business Goal: Reduce execution friction by increasing manager decision confidence

Problem To Solve: Too many escalations slowing product delivery

Success Metric: Escalation volume ↓ by 25% by Q2

Owner: People Ops Lead

Delivery Mode: Pilot → Feedback → Scale

Links: Business case | Slack comms plan | Enablement doc

This keeps cards focused, strategic, and shareable.

🪄 Optional Tags for Filtering

• Business outcome: #retention #speed #costs #trust
• Workstream: #onboarding #performance #comms
• Confidence: #validated #inDiscovery #needsExecBuyIn
• Phase: #pilot #scale #maintain

🧭 Where This Lives

• Make it open to whole company and link back to from your regular comms for #transparency and #no-surprises 🙂
• Use Notion database (Board View) or Airtable with filters/saved views for execs, ICs, etc.
• Create a “Strategy Layer” view with only:
  • Business Goal
  • Outcome
  • Success Metric
• Sync it with your execution tracker (e.g. Asana, Jira, Notion task list)

🎯 Bonus: Use This for Roadmap Review Meetings

Instead of walking through tasks, anchor roadmap reviews around:

1. Which business outcomes are progressing?
2. Which metrics are we moving?
3. Where are we stuck or need decisions? </aside>

🚀 People Roadmap

People Roadmap