covered by the release and what features may be coming up in a short amount of time. This is what we call high fidelity near view. CHAPTER 4 NETWORK ROADMAPS Some stakeholders may be more interested in looking at the roadmap with a slightly longer timeline reference. Although they are still interested to know the items that are to be part of the roadmap, they are comfortable with a lack of specific details, and this is what we call medium fidelity medium view. Last but not least, some stakeholders, such as customers who are very important industry-level players, could be more interested in what comes into the product roadmap with a long time range in mind, which would give them important inputs about the following aspects. Evaluation of the product roadmap against some industry or technology roadmap. Give indicators about the seriousness of the organization to pursue a long-term vision for the product. Ensure that they don't get tied into a product that could limit opportunities for future growth and expansion plans, which they may want to evaluate in a partnership mode, for instance. is understood that such a view of the roadmap may not offer any details at all and could very well remain abstract and at a high level, and this is what we refer to as high level, fuzzy abstract long view. When we talk about fidelity in the following sections, we mean to tie these term to the accuracy with which roadmaps are being described. fi.del.i.ty Exact correspondence with fact or with a given quality, condition, or event; accuracy. The American Heritage Dictionary In the context of this chapter, high fidelity implies higher accuracy and specificity that is being targeted in a roadmap. This would depend on the period over which such accuracy is being planned, communicated, and executed. In the following sections, we'll look at some aspects of this to understand the different views and their granularity through examples. High Fidelity Near View What does a near term view of a technology roadmap look like? What is the level of d