14 Roadmapping Tools Every Product Manager Should Know
Summary
Whether it’s displayed as a Gannt chart laying out a timeline of scheduled releases, a list view of prioritized to-do items, or a Kanban board assigning responsibilities to team members and tracking task progress, a roadmap helps a product manager see what needs to be done and who’s doing it. Brainbase relies on the tool as a hub for storing and analyzing OKR (objectives and key results) data and evaluating insights from sales teams and recurring themes in customer feature requests. Field types in a sheet can be configured for text notes, attachments, bar codes, dates and record links in third-party programs, and data can be presented in grid, calendar, kanban, gallery and form views. She can communicate information from the roadmap easily with team leads — mainly hardware engineers, industrial designers and program managers — without the need to create new accounts or download software. For some companies, traditional roadmaps can be eschewed altogether, said Abbie Bys, who is the director of product at Lumere, a software service provider for hospital systems, which was acquired by GHX in January.