Best product roadmap tools?

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What are the best product roadmap tools for collaboration and communication? Why?

Ivan Popov · Accepted Answer

@lewii So, I tried lots of web tools and services for roadmaps, but no one could be better than marker desk and brainstorm with your colleagues​

Answer

@lewii our team uses Coda to collaborate around our product roadmap. We found these templates super helpful:
https://coda.io/for/product-management

We found that a lot of other software tools weren't flexible enough for our team, but spreadsheets sprawled our data across dozens of files. What's nice about Coda is that it's a new type of document that lets our team have flexibility AND have a source of truth for our roadmap. Maybe worth giving it a shot.

Also agree with @kirschke that most teams end up doing work in documents anyway (hence our team using Coda as our go-to document).

Note: I'm on the Coda team, so I'm biased :)

Romain Sourdiaux · Answer

@lewii  if you want something flexible, I would suggest notion (https://www.notion.so/?r=941e40e3b7b249be84063bbcc78c20a1)

You can create simple kandan boards or "databases", create connections between elements, filter stuff, and for collaboration it's quite good, you get the history of changes made by people you shared it with, you can comment on stuff / resolve problems, and it's quite affordable and you can share pages publicly too!

We are using it for everything for our non-profit, from documentation to finance :)

(PS: We will earn credit if you join via the link I shared, and you also get $10 in credits to get started. All the stuff I said is not influenced by this credit thing)

Ferenc Forgacs · Answer

@lewii background story: I worked at an agency for years as the leader of the development team and because of the nature of the projects we worked on (crazy deadlines, disappearing clients, etc) in practice, we could never truly use a roadmap tool because maintaining the timeline would take too much effort and energy.
But, Asana https://asana.com/guide/examples/product/product-roadmap and Roadmap https://www.producthunt.com/posts/roadmap-v-1-0 were always on my list to give them a try.

Chris Kirschke · Answer

@lewii we've used Aha and tried Productboard and both are awesome and offer startup plans. That being said you need to  decide if they are really necessary first. Keep in mind that all of these compete against Excel and Powerpoint at the end of the day.

Best product roadmap tools?

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