Jibility is the app for building your strategic roadmaps. We have encapsulated years of consulting experience into a simple platform to help you create your own strategic roadmap in just a few simple steps.
In this article, we will describe the basic components of Jibility and how to get started.
Starting and creating a new strategic roadmap
After you log into Jibility, you have the option to either create a new strategic roadmap using our capability-based 6 step method or our objective-based 4 step method. If you need help deciding which method to use then please refer to our "Should I start with 4 or 6 Jibility Steps" article.
To start a new strategic roadmap, click on either the 6 Step Strategic Roadmap with Capability Map or 4 Step Strategic Roadmap tile, as shown below.
View Samples Roadmaps
We have provided a few sample roadmaps for you to explore. You can open a sample roadmap and make changes to it. Your changes are NOT saved, so this is a safe play pen for you to try our features. You can also make a copy of our sample if you wish to start a new roadmap using our sample as a base. You can read about it in our "Starting a new roadmap from a Jibility sample" article.
Jibility Steps
Using Jibility is as easy as following the six or four Jibility Steps. After creating or opening an existing roadmap, you will land on the following page:
The Jibility Steps menu are on the right side of the screen. These menu will navigate to the Challenges, Objectives, Capabilities, Actions, Initiative and Roadmap steps. To understand more about the Jibility Step please refer to Jibility Steps - Why? What? and How?
Canvas properties
When you create a new roadmap, you are prompted for a document name, description and time horizon. These are your roadmap document properties.
To edit your roadmap document properties, such as to change the name of your strategic roadmap, click on the "Edit Roadmap Properties" button in the top right corner (as shown below).
An example of the roadmap properties popup is shown below.
Features common to each step
In each Jibility Step, there are some common features which are illustrated below.
The workspace area in the middle is the canvas area for the Jibility Step, where you fill in the details for that step.
To complete a step, drag and drop a new or pre-defined library item from the search result panel (on the left) onto the canvas area.
When you select an item on the canvas, then the properties for this item is shown in the properties panel on the right, where you can edit the selected item.
To remove an item from your canvas, select the item you wish to delete and click the delete icon (note that no warning is provided).
Here's an example of how you can drag/drop onto the canvas work area and also select and delete your object.
Supported Browsers
Jibility is designed to work on Chromium based browsers such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge (version 79 onwards).
How to get started?
The easiest way to get started with Jibility is to open and walk through one of our sample strategic roadmaps. We have made the following samples available:
IT Strategy Roadmap for a fictitious company called RedYabber;
Digital Transformation Strategy Roadmap for RedYabber; and
Business Strategy Roadmap for a fictitious company called InsureNorth.
For a step by step description of how Jenny (the RedYabber IT Manager) created her IT Strategy Roadmap have a look here RedYabber IT Strategy Roadmap.
Tips: Open one of the sample strategic roadmaps, change the title in the canvas properties and click the download button to save as your own. This is a good way to start your own strategic roadmap or just test making changes and learn.