Smart product backlog templates are visualizations configured by Visor’s AI based on your specific requirements and objectives.
Visor’s AI only needs a small amount of information to configure your product backlog templates. It gets to work immediately in the background, and configures your product backlog templates in a few minutes or less.
“I was looking for a way to link Gantt charts to our Jira projects, but this allows me to do so much more.”
Nick B., Atlassian Reviewer
“5/5 – Visor is packed with features that are easy to use. It gives team members a clear view of the project timeline and their role in the project.”
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“I’ve tried just about every roadmapping platform you can think of and Visor is the first one that allows me to roadmap at both the epic and story/issue level.”
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“Visor’s integrated Gantt chart feature empowers visual project planning, enabling us to track timelines, dependencies, and resource allocation. Five out of five stars!”
Camilla B., Product Manager – G2 Review
“The integration with Jira allows for you to keep a central truth center, but still handle the many use cases teams have for roadmapping and backlog planning.”
Gabby C., Atlassian Reviewer
“Visor for JIRA enhances collaboration and project planning with its intuitive interface and integrated Gantt chart feature.”
Use real-time data from apps like Jira and Asana in Visor’s product backlog planning templates. Create and share crystal clear, beautiful product backlog views and trackers that stay in sync and up-to-date with your work and task management apps.
Full Range of Customizable Product Backlog Formats
Create product backlog views using Gantt charts, Kanban boards, or other view types, that all stay in sync as your product backlog changes and progresses. Equip your team with different formats for different purposes without extra effort.
Generate fully configured product backlog view and trackers, and other visualizations easily in just a few minutes. Save time and effort so that you have more time to execute.
Product Backlog Management Shaped With Best Practice
Visor’s AI learns from thousands of product backlog views created by other users to generate product backlog visualizations that meet your requirements. The AI also infuses your product backlog views with best practices, and helps you avoid the mistakes and frustration of trial and error.
Visor’s AI does the heavy lifting, but you still have full control. After the AI has taken care of the time-consuming product backlog configuration, you can change and customize any detail you like. The AI saves you time, but you’re still in charge. You can even use the AI to create new versions of your product backlog views as and when you require.
Keep your stakeholders updated at every step with product backlog views and trackers that update in real-time. Share your product backlog visualizations easily using email invites or reusable sharing links.
Use Visor’s Product Backlog Templates With Existing Data From Your SaaS Apps
Connect Visor to popular SaaS apps or input your project data directly into Visor to create your product backlog views.
Import nested Jira data (e.g., Epics, Stories/Tasks) in minutes. Visor maintains your data’s structure, allowing you to visualize project plans and push out edits.
Visor pays attention to the details, treating your data exactly as Salesforce does. Import and edit your data, including dropdown field selections and contact names.
Connect, visualize, and update Asana projects including sub-tasks and custom fields. Easily make bulk edits and connect with project data from other apps.
Can I use Visor’s product backlog templates for free?
Yes, upon registering you will have a 14-day free trial of Visor’s Team plan, giving you access to all of Visor’s premium visualization types. After this trial period you can choose to select a Team or Starter plan, or continue on the Visor Free plan.
The features required to organize your product backlog are included with Visor’s Free plan.
What are the benefits of Visor’s product backlog template?
Visor’s AI creates a custom product backlog template for you in minutes, giving your product backlog template the exact characteristics you need without you having to spend hours applying modifications and tweaks.
The product backlog template comes in a range of formats including Kanban boards, table views, Gantt charts, and more, giving you a versatile toolkit you can use to organize and review your product backlog with your team.
Using Visor’s product backlog template will help you to populate, groom, organize, and progress your product backlog with greater ease and efficiency.
Visor’s product backlog templates look great and are crystal clear, which is an under-appreciated benefit when you need to find and move your product backlog items quickly.
Can I use data from other apps in Visor’s product backlog templates?
Yes, Visor has bi-directional integrations with Jira, Asana, Salesforce, and other apps. This enables you to use your product data from these apps in Visor’s product backlog templates.
The bi-directional integration keeps Visor in sync with your apps to preserve your single version of the truth and prevent manual updates. You can even import multiple projects to create product backlog views that incorporate all the teams, projects, or products in your organization or business unit.
This means you can import product backlog items like user stories and bugs from Jira into Visor, update their status in Visor, and then sync them back into Jira too.
Can I use live data from other apps (for example Jira) in Visor’s product backlog templates?
Yes, you can connect Visor with apps like Jira, Asana, and Salesforce, to visualize your app data in Visor’s crystal clear views, which you can easily share with stakeholders that lack direct access to those apps too.
Visor’s sophisticated bi-directional integration with apps like Jira and Asana maintains the integrity of your data and keeps Visor and your apps in perfect sync to preserve your single source of truth.
Is Visor primarily a tool for managing product backlogs?
No, although Visor is great for visualizing and managing your product backlogs it has many more valuable applications than this.
Visor is a better way to visualize your projects and portfolios of projects. It is mainly used by people working in apps like Jira and Asana who feel limited by those apps’ native visualization options.
Visor’s two-way integrations with these apps enables people to create beautiful, crystal clear visualizations of their projects that stay in sync with their project management apps. It also has useful features to manage, track, and analyze groups of projects (aka portfolios of projects), making it a powerful but easy to use project portfolio management software for organizations of all sizes.
Can I customize the stages used in the product backlog template?
Yes, you can completely customize the stages, columns, lanes, and groupings used in the product backlog template to fit your own processes.
When I’m using a board view as my product backlog template can I add lanes to improve the organization of my cards (the items on my product backlog)?
Yes, you can add and customize lanes in Visor’s Kanban board view when you’re using it to manage your product backlog. Once the AI has created your product backlog template simply click on the “Lanes” button in the board view and select the field you want to use to define your lanes (such as product, business area, initiative, team, or any other useful criteria).
If the criteria you want to organize your product backlog by does not exist in your data, you can create a custom dropdown field in Visor to add this criteria to your data. Just click the “New field” button, select Dropdown field, and add the field name and options. You can now organize the items in your product backlog using this additional criteria, giving you a much more structured approach and more options to categorize your various user stories and bugs.
Can I use the product backlog template to monitor the progression of work items too?
Yes, you can add additional stages to your product backlog view to track work items that have been moved from the backlog and are actually being worked on. You can even create additional views to track and assess the impact of your work items (such as features or improvements).
What else can I use Visor for besides managing my product backlog?
Visor has a wide range of uses besides managing your product backlog, here are just some of the most popular uses for Visor that we see:
Visor is an extremely flexible app and this versatility means it can be adapted to a wide range of uses, so if you have an unusual requirement you should try it, for free, and see if it is the tool you’ve been looking for but unable to find until now.
Can I create product backlogs that include tickets from multiple projects?
Yes, using Visor’s product backlog template you can create structured product backlogs that include tickets from multiple projects, and use lanes, filters, and other techniques to ensure your product backlog view stays organized and easy to use.
Can I add items into my product backlog from multiple organizations, instances, or different apps?
Yes, in Visor you can import items or tickets into your product backlog from different organizations, instances, or apps, and view them in the same product backlog view, or separate views, depending on your preference. For example you can import, combine, and visualize data from:
Multiple Jira instances in different organizations
Multiple Jira instances in the same organization
Jira, Asana, Salesforce and other apps either from one or many teams/organizations
You can also supplement data from all of the above examples with data added directly into Visor itself.
Why is using a Smart Template to create product backlog views better than creating your own plans from scratch or using generic templates?
Smart Templates in Visor are powered by AI, which uses your data, your prompts, and its learnings from thousands of human-created visualizations.
This enables it to produce product backlog views and other visualizations infused with best practices and fully customized to your precise requirements and objectives.
The difference between Smart Templates and regular templates is akin to the difference between wearing a finely tailored, top-of-the-line suit to an ill-fitting, under-sized, off-the-rack shabby suit and trying to make it fit like the professionally tailored version – it’s possible. Still, it will take you lots of time, effort, trial-and-error, and frustration to get there.
Using Smart Templates to create your product backlog view gets you off to the best possible start, saves you hours, and saves you heaps of frustration. It’s a genuine game-changer in your ability to plan and visualize your product backlog and projects.
What other templates are available in Visor?
Visor has a wide range of templates, which you can find in our Templates Library.
Templates in Visor are generated by AI based on your responses to a short series of questions, which enable the AI to understand what you are trying to achieve and produce a ready-configured template to suit your needs. This means that you are not limited to the set of templates we offer in our library, as the AI can meet needs that we haven’t listed or even considered.
How do I access AI-powered Smart Templates in Visor?
When you first log in to Visor, after entering your email address and how you want to use Visor, you will see a screen that asks, “What is this workbook for?” On this screen, there is a “Use Smart Template” button.
You can then pick from a range of popular template categories, or click “Other” to ask the AI to create something different to the available options. You can use the free text box to supply additional information to help the AI create a set of visualizations (or templates) that will best meet your needs.
To access Smart Templates if you already have a Visor account, simply click the New Workbook button within an existing workbook, or Create a new workbook from the workbook list screen. Then when you’re asked “What is this workbook for?” click the “Use Smart Template” button.
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