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Which formats are people using to share the product roadmap with customers / teammates / investors?

Nick Russell
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Dan Robins
Hmmmm... it's such a tough one because it depends how granular you need/want to go. I guess this would differ depending on the intended audience. But my preferences are... - Kanban for internal (e.g. Trello or Jira), who can 'open' and find more details about certain items - Gantt style for engineers (e.g. Asana, Monday), as it show dependencies (e.g. when one feature takes longer than expected, it shows how the whole roadmap is effected) - A simple slide for investors - keeping things super high level, and at an epic (do they need to know all the details?!)
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Ben Dalziel
@dan_robins totally! it's about sharing the simplest picture you can get away with to each audience. It can be hard though because you have to do ALL the work, so it can be tempting to share all of it to everyone - "hey, look at this beautiful ticket sub structure, and naming convention!", but most people don't - and shouldn't - care.
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Dan Robins
@bdalziel Totally agree - the temptation is always there to provide all of the information just because you have... but it's certainly not always helpful! Here's to resisting temptation!
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Tommy De Rossi
I use a simple Kanban board with an "in progress", "under review" and "planned" columns. If i already know a feature will come next month i will also add a tag like "November" so people know when it will come out For this roadmap website i used Notaku, it uses a Notion database as CMS and is fully customizable (custom domain, logo, footer, font, background, etc) Notaku also let you embed the roadmap as a widget in your website (visit notaku.so for an example)
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Nick Russell
@xmorse Thanks for sharing this Tommaso! I like how you've mixed the Kanban approach with hard commitments where this makes sense, a nice way of blending the continuous format with time-bound releases. Haven't heard of Notaku before but will be sure to check them out too!
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Pavel Kukhnavets
It depends on particular tool you use and its features. For our projects, we use GanttPRO https://ganttpro.com/ - a Gantt chart maker that allows for exporting roadmaps in a couple of clicks. If you choose this PM platform, you can easily share your roadmap data with stakeholders using Excel, PDF, PNG, or XML formats.
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Nick Russell
@pavel_kukhnavets Thanks for sharing this Pavel! A Gantt chart will always be the first choice for a strictly time-bound roadmap. I'll be sure to check out GanttPRO 🙂
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