Body of Knowledge · Glossary
Bottom-up roadmap
A department "strategy" assembled from team wish lists, with no connecting thesis. More detail in the list never fixes it. The fix is to define the outcomes and derive the list again from them.
Where the standard develops it
- SV-1Engineering strategyTranslating business goals into technical direction, and writing it down.
Related terms
- Connecting thesis
- The statement of why these teams do these things, tying several teams' work to a few department-level outcomes.
- Engineering strategy
- The written translation of business goals into technical direction.
- Outcome versus output
- Framing work as the change wanted in the world instead of the thing to be built.
- Structure follows strategy
- Changes in strategy require changes in structure, and structures that outlive the strategy that produced them become the obstacle to the next one.
Cite this definition
Chicago, BibTeX and licence →Engineering Management Academy. (2026). Bottom-up roadmap. In Engineering Management Academy Body of Knowledge (Version 3.1, GLO.bottom-up-roadmap). https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/glossary/bottom-up-roadmap