Curate a Flow Roadmap

Turn insights into action with a flow roadmap

With strategic alignment, validated boundaries, and feasible futures in view, the final step is to bring it all together in a practical, navigable plan.

A Flow Roadmap is the connective tissue between vision and execution. It helps your organization take an iterative, low-risk approach to structural evolution—while staying focused on improving flow.

Capture key decisions with Flow Decision Records

At the heart of the roadmap is a series of Flow Decision Records (FDRs). Each record documents a specific decision, including:

  • The flow-related challenge or opportunity it addresses
  • The teams or services impacted
  • Dependencies or enabling changes required
  • The rationale behind the decision and how it supports strategic alignment

FDRs are designed to maximize clarity and utility—not just for current leaders, but for those who come later. They form a traceable, evolving narrative of how and why flow-informed changes were made.

Organize change with Now / Next / Later planning

We align decisions along a Now / Next / Later structure, making it easy to:

  • Sequence efforts based on urgency, feasibility, and strategic value
  • Identify and address dependencies between decisions
  • Create space for We can if… thinking to overcome early-stage blockers or path dependencies

This structure provides a practical, visual approach to managing change while keeping flow at the center.

Why this matters

Without a clear and flexible roadmap, even the best insights get lost—or worse, stall in endless debate. The Flow Roadmap ensures that insights turn into coordinated action by:

  • Making decisions visible, traceable, and reusable
  • Providing a shared reference point for cross-team alignment
  • Minimizing risk in the early stages of change

Whether you’re implementing small shifts or major reconfigurations, the Flow Roadmap keeps your organization moving forward—intentionally, iteratively, and in flow.

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