How

Product Category and Product Line Teams are building backlogs and understand the capacity and velocity of the Delivery teams. Product Category, Product Line, and Delivery teams all understand the business goals and have clear line of sight to how the work they are doing aligns to strategy and goals.

In order to effectively plan at the Epic level, Product Category and Product Line Teams must understand what the “Most Valuable” work is to the customer; this can be done using Story Mapping techniques. With knowledge of capacity and velocity, understanding of most valuable work and strategy alignment, the Product Category and Product Line Teams are able to prioritize work to create an Epic Roadmap for the next 3-6 months.