Drivers, Road maps, Planning & Status

Our Drivers

Our motives and drivers are our sources for understanding which components are important to WIX or our users. Drivers are a significant part of building our backlog and roadmaps.
Our planning is done by gathering information from different groups and needs, monitoring support tickets from users and management requirements.
We compile all requirements into one board (see Backlog - EE - Open Requests in this article).

Our Drivers list

Group/Source
Name
Link to group backlog
Editor Classic
Ayelet Geva / Yaara Asaf / Nitzan Pode

Editor X
Gali Erez / Lior Dvir

Platformization
Maayan Koren / Moran Barkai
App builder (Blocks)
Hana Sinai Cohen
Wix.com (Marketing)
Shani Tiberg Shachar
Wix on Wix
Odelia Gal
Product Support Team Members
Eric Sonnenberg
Support (PSL)
Julianne Jash Mae Serrano

User Voice


Marketing
Idan Segal, Mikki Ben-Or

Backlog - EE - Open Requests

In this Monday board (build from our drivers list) we try to understand the scope of the projects, it's urgency and its source of demand. Through this list we prioritise projects. Once we agree on the priority, we will build our road-map.

Type of information we collect in our backlog list

Subject
Why
Open requests 
name of the request
Component Description
Brief explanation 'What is the purpose of the product'
Link to example
If there is a sample link of such a product works
Example images / gifs
Image, mock-up or animation that can be understood as needed
Request status
- New 
- Gathering info
- Not aligned with Focus Doc
- Added to roadmap
- Transfered
Request type
- New Component
- Improve existing
- Fix Standardization
- Fix Bug
- Fill Gap
- Other
Drivers
Who are the drivers? Wix Editor, Users, Wix-on-Wix project, etc.
SEO
Request for SEO Standardization
A11Y
Request for A11Y Standardization
Mobile
Request for Mobile Standardization
Product Effort (est.)
- Big
- Medium
- Small
- unknown 
Dev Effort
- Big
- Medium
- Small
- unknown
High Priority For
For example: Wix Ediotr, users equests
Also relevant for
If it's relevant to another teams in Wix
Existing Workarounds
Is there another solution
- None
- Problematic
- Yes
Contributable ?
Is another team can contribute it?
- Nope
- Yes - complex
- Yes - easy
Depends on
by doing this, we depends on (for example, Velo, Editor X etc.)
Is Dependency For
Beyond the team that requested it, are they dependent on this requirement in order to move forward?
Requested Deadline
Specify a date if there is a deadline for this request
Requester / Champion
name a contact person 
First created
When this request created (date)

Building the Roadmaps

The roadmap provides a strategy and plan for product development. Roadmap is based on long-term product team goals and need to communicate the process for how to achieve those goals. We manage our road-map in this monday board. 

The source for this road-map board is our 'EE - Open Requests' (backlog). Once we agree that a particular product is given high priority, we move the product (a single line from the list in the backlog) to the road-map board.
Roadmap should focus on:
  • User needs while solving meaningful problems
  • Incorporate key people- PM needs to include: customer feedback, engineering, company vision and product strategy
  • Communicate simple and easy to understand roadmap - goals and development mile stones. Don't need to be included: backlog list, bugs etc. 
  • Reflecting team contribution effort for company quarterly/yearly goals.


Product roadmap reduces uncertainty about the future and keeps product teams focused on the highest priority product initiatives. 

Key elements the roadmap follow:
  • Product strategy
  • Product goals
  • Which features should be focused on
  • Timeline for new features
  • Responsibilities

The editor elements team prepares the roadmap by collecting all the data. The Roadmap document is an internal document built by the team. This document is displayed within the official Wix Component Group Roadmap.

Roadmaps

See all our roadmaps in this article