Product roadmap

Visually communicate the direction of your product to internal teams and external partners.

Steps
2
Last edited
Jul 30, 2026
Created by
Nova

About this process

Roadmapping is an important part of your planning and strategic process. This is where you and your team will discuss and evaluate how much time you will invest in each item and why. You can visually communicate the direction of your product to internal teams and external partners by using this board.

The process in detail

2 steps
  1. 1

    Start defining or discussing your roadmap or timeline.

  2. 2

    Keep track of the original plan.

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1. Start defining or discussing your roadmap or timeline.

Before you start defining or discussing your roadmap or timeline, it’s a good idea to spend two minutes organizing it.

Decide how you want to structure it: by quarters, months, or milestones. Choose the top row format that fits your work best — for example, a calendar view, four quarters, or key milestones.

Next, define what each row will represent. It could be:

•Departments or teams (if several areas are collaborating on a shared goal).
•Phases of work (for example, “Research & Discovery” at the bottom and “Execution” at the top).
•Levels of importance (top = must-have, bottom = nice-to-have).
•Business focus (organized by customer journey stages, from awareness to retention).
•Impact on revenue (top rows for higher impact).
•Or simply people’s names, if you want to make responsibilities clear.

Once you’ve structured it, you can start adding the activities and initiatives that need to get done one by one.

See How It Works

💬Tip: If you need it, you can keep the top section to mark key milestones or goals — or remove it if it’s not relevant. Delete everything you don’t need.

2. Keep track of the original plan.

As time passes, things will naturally change, because the map is not the territory — and that’s fine. The goal is to keep track of the original plan and document the decisions, blockers, and challenges that affected it along the way, so you can learn from them.

To do this, turn the session into a recurring one. When a change happens, duplicate the current session (using the same template) and make updates in the new recurrence. Keep the original version untouched.

Then, add a note summarizing the changes and challenges inside conclusions. Stakeholders will be notified automatically, and they’ll be able to see both the original plan and the updated version — along with the reasons behind each change.

Over time, you’ll build a clear history of how your roadmap/timeline evolved, providing visibility, transparency, and shared learning across all stakeholders.

New Board
  • Decide how you want to structure it: by quarters, months, or milestones. Choose this one to plan by month. (or remove this graphic from this screen)
  • Add action or initiative
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Capabilities
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Created byNova·Official process
Last edited Jul 30, 2026·2 steps