# Initiatives and Roadmaps

Using initiatives is a way to categorize work items into larger initiatives, bets, strategic goals, or projects. Initiatives have a description, linked insights, and an activity feed similar to work items. However, they can be shared across spaces, which makes them great for cross-team work.

By enabling roadmaps, you can organize and prioritize your initiatives on boards. You can have multiple roadmaps, and roadmaps can also be shared across spaces.

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Initiatives are great for building a theme-based roadmap. Themes are common in product management to align teams and stakeholders on a roadmap, using terms that are also familiar outside the team. A theme is simply a broad initiative, experiment, bet, or a category of customer problems.

You can watch an excellent video [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUiwvYV6dPQ) about roadmaps.
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