What's the best tool to build a product roadmap?

Question

I'm looking for a tool that can help me most easily and clearly organize a product roadmap (specific features shown in the pipeline from idea to implementation).

Ben Lang · Accepted Answer

Here's an example of a roadmap in Notion https://notionpages.com/454/public-roadmap/

Magda Werminska · Answer

Great tool, clean interface, intuitive, just the right set of features.

Answer

It really depends on what you mean by roadmap. Should you want to publicly share with your customers what you're up to then Productboard is ideal as it's a product management tool that will help you build everything that will eventually lead to a roadmap.

David Diamond · Answer

Airtable is amazing for roadmapping, using the labels to assign different statuses is a big part of our workflow. We link our main roadmap view to a Kanban for design planning, so if a feature is marked "Designs Needed" it'll go in to the Kanban board.

Ale · Answer

We use LucidChart for drafting every phases, priorities, and flows :).
Pros: it is really clear and easy to use.

Joseph Fung · Answer

Super useable, integrates with Jira (a must!) and I love how there are multiple ways to pivot the video so you can see roadmap items in a class time view (like a gantt chart) or by theme, or like a table of records.  Also, they make it really easy to share - either via the app or as a slide.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Nuclino helps you create a goal-oriented path for product development.

Mike Flanagan · Answer

Nuclino has a kanban board view that works great for roadmaps. Works like a combination of Trello and Google Docs. A lot faster and more lightweight than most alternatives, focuses on essential features.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Build unmatched products using a perfect roadmap.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

It makes the process of making product roadmap easier and more efficient.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Access to a great number of tools and technologies on one platform.

Nuno · Answer

It's helpfull in so many ways. Easily build a roadmap and make It public.

Anna Mizina · Answer

for me personally, it's a realtimeboard. i'm adoring this product because it has a lot of templates. i take it first in mind when need some plan, journey, storming with sticky notes. there is also template of the roadmap and it's a way to have a beautiful picture of it, but i'm not sure, that it would be very comfortable to track the progress on it. maybe you can connect it with asana and it's gonna work.

Marcel Folaron · Answer

Leantime was built to visualize your product from ideation through research to milestone planning and it includes task management.

Marcel Folaron · Answer

Leantime was built to visualize your product from ideation through research to milestone planning and it includes task management.

Gil · Answer

ProductLog is simple, light way option to keep customers in the loop about the product. It has a simple road-map-like feature called "plans". Example here https://conteidon.productlog.io/plans

Yasin Dağlı · Answer

Use Kanban boards, Timeline, Custom Fields and collaboration features to build great roadmaps for your products.

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré · Answer

Prioritize product development and feature requests with stakeholders. Manage high level product improvements and incoming feature requests from Sales and Support teams. Prioritize feature requests for upcoming sprints and create a transparent development process. Organize user stories and customer feedback for quick reference. Establish development and design requirements for implementation using checklists. Make sprint planning more effective by adding story points to cards for estimating the difficulty of building features. Agile Sprints Agile workflow is all about collaboration and self-organization. This Trello board helps you manage your product workflow in one place while giving your team perspective of the whole agile process. Keep all code, specs, and key user stories easily accessible in one location. See the status of tasks as sprints progress in a shared team view. Collaborate seamlessly with engineers and scrum masters in real time. Manage and prioritize the product backlog with stakeholders and product owners. Transparently share with business stakeholders what’s shipped and what’s up next. Sprint Retrospective Replace whiteboards with Trello boards for more informative and accessible team retrospectives. Stay effective and remove roadblocks for success with regularly held retrospectives after every sprint. Create an open and encouraging environment that puts people (introverts and extroverts) on the same level. Celebrate what went well, what needs improvement, and any action items required to improve communication and collaboration. Empower team members to vote and openly discuss the issues that matter most to the team and users. Keep distributed teams in sync by removing geographic barriers with this accessible from anywhere Trello board. Project Overview Product managers are always juggling tasks, goals, and stakeholders across the board. This workflow will help you easily manage cross-functional team projects. Get perspective on all moving parts during cross-functional team projects. Clearly establish the high level business goals for each element of the project in one location. Create a workflow to organize tasks as they move from research phases to implementation. Visualize the progress of tasks and quickly surface information by applying filterable labels to cards. Stay organized by attaching all research notes, data, and design mockups for each task. Feature Requests Create an actionable inbox to receive and prioritize feature requests from customer-facing teams like Sales, Support and Marketing for your product roadmap. Establish a transparent workflow to prioritize feature requests so teams know who to contact and how their request fits on roadmap. Transparently share the progress of features selected for development to reduce frequent follow-up inquiries and emails. Capture important details about requested features including customer pain points. See the frequency of feature requests by asking team members to attach tickets to cards for a better understanding of urgency and popularity of user needs. Help improve customer success by letting Sales, Support and Marketing know when a highly requested feature has been released.

Jason Abromaitis · Answer

Lots of the tools here are great for plotting the roadmap - Corus is great for figuring out how to prioritize features, and ensure that they are targeting the right customers.

Shaun Stewart · Answer

Aha! is my go-to product management suite. It's especially useful if you're creating a portfolio roadmap for multiple products and/or product lines. The ability to develop strategy/positioning, user personas, and goals all in one suite has also helped me achieve alignment with the various stakeholders across my company.

Ashlyn · Answer

We use prodpad (no affiliation) in our company, because it's: 
1. Simple to use,
2. Designed around a kanban style roadmap, and
3. Has a simple iframe embed, so we can easily embed it on our website for customers to view.