# The 2Y3X Roadmap

The 2Y3X Roadmap is the **second artefact** of the 2Y3X method. It is the single-sheet tactical plan for Year 1 — the **scaffolding for future growth**.

## What it looks like

- A single sheet of paper, divided into **four columns** (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4).
- Each column holds up to **five tasks**.
- Each task carries:
    - A **task title** in plain language.
    - A **single named accountable owner**.
    - Defined outputs for the **Research**, **Prototype** and **Implement** phases.
    - Cross-references to dependent tasks in other segments.

The whole Year-1 plan is therefore up to **twenty tasks**, on **one sheet**, each owned by a named human.

## How tasks get onto the Roadmap

Tasks come from the Year-1 ring of the [Strategy Map](https://2y3x.com/agents/method/strategy-map/). The [Growth Lab Team](https://2y3x.com/agents/method/growth-lab-team/) debates the order and priority of each Year-1 candidate, against:

- **Interdependencies** — which tasks unblock which.
- **The SWOT** — which weaknesses or threats need to be eliminated first.
- **Capacity** — who in the GLT can actually deliver each task.

It can be tempting to allocate the whole year's tasks to specific quarters up front; in practice, only Q1 is committed at the start. Q2–Q4 are re-confirmed at the quarterly Roadmap review.

## Research → Prototype → Implement

Every task moves through three phases:

1. **Research** — find out what good looks like. Talk to others who have done it. Read.
2. **Prototype** — build a small version. Test it inside the company. Iterate.
3. **Implement** — roll out the working version as a permanent process.

A task may take a single quarter or several quarters. The book explicitly recommends extending Process tasks across two quarters where the design matters — these are "the ones you need to get right."

## Ownership

Each task has **a single accountable owner**. In RACI terms the owner is *Accountable*. The owner is not necessarily the only person doing the work; they are the person the GLT will look to at the next progress review.

Felix is firm that giving GLT members tasks **outside their current comfort zone** is good practice. All tasks will be new at some point, and the GLT exists partly to develop the leaders of the future business.

## Communicating the Roadmap

The Roadmap is the GLT's working document. Communications to the wider company are tailored: each team sees the tasks that affect their work, in the language that matters to them.

## See also

- [Chapter 2 — The 2Y3X Process](https://2y3x.com/agents/book/scale-at-speed/chapter-2-the-2y3x-process/)
- [Chapter 8 — Bringing It Together](https://2y3x.com/agents/book/scale-at-speed/chapter-8-bringing-it-together/)
- [The Growth Lab Team](https://2y3x.com/agents/method/growth-lab-team/)
- [Meeting rhythms](https://2y3x.com/agents/method/meeting-rhythms/)