A list of projects is not a roadmap. Each project either strengthens the organization's ability to do the next one or it doesn't. Plan the capabilities deliberately and the use cases follow.
Three capability tracks
- Data — which sources are cleaned, connected, owned and documented. Prioritize the ones several use cases share.
- Platform — model access, evaluation tooling, logging, security patterns and deployment, built once and reused.
- People — who can specify problems, evaluate outputs and run systems; who needs training and who needs hiring.
Sequencing
Choose early use cases that build shared capabilities, such as one clean customer-knowledge source or a reusable evaluation harness. Each project should leave behind something the next team can use, and the roadmap should say what.
Ask of every project: what will this make easier for the project after it?