ROAD MAPとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From road +‎ map.

発音

名詞

road map (plural road maps)

1. A map with a visual representation of roads used for automobile travel and navigation. A road map may contain other relevant data, such as terrain or railway lines.

   Coordinate term: street map

2. (figuratively) A plan of action, laying out the future actions of participants.

   road map for peace

   • 2022 July 26, Mike Isaac, “‘Operating With Increased Intensity’: Zuckerberg Leads Meta Into Next Phase”, in The New York Times‎:

     On the agenda: a “work-athon” to discuss the road map for improving the main Facebook app, including a revamp that would change how users browse the service.

   • 2023 July 6, Pamela Paul, “What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?”, in The New York Times‎:

     Through her characters’ personal growth and interpersonal relationships, Hoover offers readers an emotional road map to recovery from imposter syndrome, domestic abuse, betrayal, victimization.

3. (originally computing, computer hardware) A structured representation of objects to display a development plan, used in business for strategic planning and communications.
   • 1999, Marc Hamilton, Software Development: Building Reliable Systems, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 236:

     CPU speeds continue to increase with no end in sight. For instance, Sun's UltraSPARC processor roadmap, shown in Figure 16-2, show CPU speed increasing from 143 MHz in 1995 to 1.5 Ghz in 2002, roughly doubling every year as predicted by Moore's Law.

   • 2008, Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Peter N. Clough, Software Product Management and Pricing, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 77:

     In the software business, a product roadmap gives an overview how a product is going to develop over the strategic timeframe of up to 5 years in terms of new releases or versions, their schedules and major themes.

派生した語

• → French: roadmap
• → German: Roadmap

Further reading

• road map on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

名詞

roadmap (plural roadmaps)

1. Alternative form of road map.
   • 1997, George Mulholland, John Fassett, Charles Ehrlich, Global Growth of Technology: Is America Prepared?, page 76:

     And our semiconductor industry, I think, is showing the way as to how roadmaps can be used for very general, very generic and very energizing programs of a very broad nature.

   • 2022, Robert Kanigel, Young Man, Muddled, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 9:

     In 1966, I could not have imagined my life playing out as it has. That I would do the work I do. Or love the women I loved. My life and work seemed laid out for me, the future a detailed roadmap. The map was wrong.

動詞

roadmap (third-person singular simple present roadmaps, present participle roadmapping, simple past and past participle roadmapped)

1. (transitive) To construct a plan of action regarding (something).
   • 2002, Gary J. Chastek, editor, Software Product Lines: Second International Conference, SPLC 2, San Diego, CA, USA, August 19–22, 2002. Proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 335:

     More specifically, we believe that such an approach should be: […] Opportunistic in using available software but also planned when developing new software, with the latter carefully roadmapped.