Now-Next-Later Roadmap Template

Communicate your priorities over broad timeframes with an emphasis on the near-term.

Now-Next-Later Roadmap Template

Communicate your priorities over broad timeframes with an emphasis on the near-term. This visualization is ideal for teams operating in fast-changing environments where release dates may be subject to change.

Columns:

Releases (named Now, Next, Later)

Groupings:

By features, by objectives, or by hierarchy

Swimlanes:

Products

Now-next-later roadmap is good for:

Communicating with large audiences (e.g. an All-Hands or Town Hall meeting). Simple, streamlined layout reduces noise and is easy for everyone to understand. Communicating broad plans without committing your team to specific deadlines.

Now-next-later roadmap is not good for:

Communicating with executives. If your audience needs any kind of detail - deadlines, teams, or company objectives, for example - this won't be enough information. Consider an Objectives timeline roadmap.

I really can’t express how excited I was when I found productboard. What completely sold me was the power of mapping user feedback to features on our roadmap.

– Tom Daly, Principal Product Manager, Samsung NEXT