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Roadmaps

Choose how product direction, sequencing, status, and time horizons are governed and communicated.

Recommendation

Choose the roadmap audience and source of truth first.

Productboard fits customer-informed planning, Aha! portfolio governance, Jira Product Discovery Atlassian discovery, and Linear execution-connected roadmaps.12

For: Product organizations communicating planned direction internally or externally

Main trade-off

Roadmap tools make direction visible while adding hierarchy, status, integration, seat, audience, history, and expectation-management overhead.1234

Four roadmap operating routes

Discovery, portfolio, ecosystem, and execution proximity change the correct system.

  1. Audience and promise

    Separate internal planning from external communication and define what statuses and dates mean.1

  2. Planning hierarchy

    Model products, initiatives, outcomes, ideas, projects, releases, dependencies, and ownership.2

  3. Source of truth

    Decide whether discovery, portfolio strategy, Jira work, or engineering projects should anchor the roadmap.4

  4. Governance and cost

    Confirm editors, viewers, contributors, permissions, integrations, exports, history, plans, and migration.12

Roadmap-system routes

Select the route matching the authoritative planning workflow.

Customer-informed product discovery

Choose Productboard

Feedback insights, prioritization, and roadmap communication should share a product system.

Verify: Verify planning hierarchy, contributor and seat models, integrations, status governance, data, and exports.1

Portfolio product management

Choose Aha!

Strategy, hierarchy, planning, releases, and roadmap governance span products or teams.

Verify: Confirm which Aha! products, seats, integrations, hierarchy, reporting, and commercial terms are required.2

Atlassian-centered product discovery

Choose Jira Product Discovery

Discovery and prioritization should connect to an existing Jira delivery estate.

Verify: Confirm creators/contributors, views, Jira linkage, permissions, plan limits, and public communication needs.3

Execution-connected roadmap

Choose Linear

Roadmap direction should remain close to engineering projects and execution.

Verify: Verify product-planning depth, external audience needs, workspace model, integrations, data, seats, and migration.4

Boundary: This Task excludes project-management methodology and any claim that published dates are commitments.

Plans, work, and shipped change

A roadmap is neither a raw feedback queue nor a changelog.

Feedback versus direction
Requests are evidence; roadmap status is a governed product statement.12
Roadmap versus tracker
A delivery tracker manages work while a roadmap communicates direction and sequencing.12
Roadmap versus changelog
Roadmaps describe planned or considered work; changelogs record shipped change.12

Official resources

Verify current product boundaries, deployment options, data handling, plan limits, pricing, and operating requirements in first-party material before adoption.

DocumentationLinear initiatives

Sources

Official product documentation supporting the bounded routes and decision criteria on this page.

  1. 1
    Productboard roadmapping

    Productboard · Accessed Official

  2. 2
    Aha! Roadmaps support

    Aha! · Accessed Official

  3. 3
    Jira Product Discovery documentation

    Atlassian · Accessed Official

  4. 4
    Linear initiatives

    Linear · Accessed Official