Standard 4: Planning

Digital roadmap

This standard supports your agency to design its Digital Roadmap. The Digital Roadmap visualises your agency’s key initiatives across the digital horizon. It should be high level, align with the agency’s overall business strategy and goals, and with the Strategy. Your agency can use the Digital Roadmap to visualise and map its progress on a half-yearly basis.

What the digital roadmap should show

Key initiatives across the short, medium, and long-term
Implementation milestones for planned activities and upgrades
ERP modernisation outlined, including major phases and tranches
Your approach to strategic cloud planning

For larger or higher‑risk initiatives, your agency may also show

Pre-investment pilot activities for major or critical initiatives
Tranching for relevant digital initiatives
Genuine off-ramps or points where an initiative may pause, stop or change direction
Major cyber security uplift programs that are multi‑year or affect critical services. For example, Essential Eight uplift, remediation of critical vulnerabilities, or uplift related to Systems of Government Significance (SoGS).

Digital roadmap (including sample data)

Example of a Digital Roadmap across a ten-year horizon running from 2026 until 2036. Greater detail in the accordion below.

This image shows an example Digital Roadmap across a ten-year horizon running from 2026 until 2036. Four example strategic goals are listed with a series of example key initiatives plotted across the ten-year horizon. Additionally, each example initiative is highlighted with the intended funding source: TBD Funding, Internally Funded and Externally Funded. Initiatives that are linked as Dependency are indicated with a blue arrow.

New systems and major upgrades

Provide more information on each major initiative and outline critical new systems or major upgrades across the short, medium and long-term digital horizon. This standard accompanies the visual Digital Roadmap.

Initiative, program of work, or system

Provide a high-level overview of the initiative, program of work or system.

Proposal Type

Outline the proposal or business case stage. For example Pilot, First Pass Business Case (1PBC), Discovery, Second Pass Business Case (2PBC), Implementation, next tranche/phase, sustainment.

For larger or higher risk initiatives, consider separable tranches or phases with clear decision gates and off ramps:

Purpose

Define if the system is a new capability, or if it enhances or replaces an existing capability

Funding source

Outline the intended funding source, for example internally funded, externally funded, unfunded or to be determined.

Standard 4: Planning