A Smart product roadmap template is a product roadmap 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 roadmaps. It gets to work immediately in the background, and configures your product roadmap 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.”
Nick B., Small Business Project Manager – G2 Review
“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.”
Kemper R., Atlassian Reviewer
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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.”
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Visor Product Roadmap Templates – Key Benefits:
Minimal Effort When Creating Product Roadmaps
Generate fully configured product roadmaps and other visualizations easily in just a few minutes. Save time and effort and spend them on higher-value activities.
Visor’s AI learns from thousands of product roadmaps to generate roadmap that meets your requirements. The AI also infuses your product roadmap 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 roadmap 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 roadmap as and when you require.
Keep your stakeholders updated at every step with product roadmaps that update in real-time. Share your product roadmaps easily using email invites or reusable sharing links.
Use Visor’s Product Roadmap 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 roadmap.
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 the product roadmap template with data from other apps?
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 the Visor product roadmap template.
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 product to create product roadmaps that comprise all the products in your organization or business unit. If this is of interest to you, you can also use our portfolio roadmap template.
What criteria can I use to organize and group the data on my product roadmap?
You can group the items on your product roadmap by any dropdown field in your data. The best criteria for you will depend on the scale of your roadmap, how detailed you need it to be, who your audience is, and how they plan to use the roadmap view.
Some common examples of how Visor users group data in their product roadmaps include:
Product
Initiative
Assignee
Project Lead
Priority
Status/Stage
Can I use this template to create different views of my product roadmap for different stakeholders?
Yes, you can easily create multiple versions of your product roadmap that are tailored to different audiences using the same real-time data.
Settings you may want to adjust when creating product roadmaps for different audiences include:
Creating multiple views of your roadmap for different team members, teams, stakeholders, or purposes (such as review meetings) is easy. All these views stay in sync with your data source, so you can have as many different perspectives of your product plan as you like without having to manually reorganize or update the data for different stakeholders.
“Zoom” or Timescale: Quarters and months for your executive board and sprints for your engineering team.
Data Groupings: Group data by the assignee for your team views and by the strategic initiative for your executive board
Levels of Task: Choose to show all task levels for personal views, epics to tasks for team views, and epics only for senior stakeholder views
Creating multiple views of your roadmap for different team members, teams, stakeholders, or purposes (such as review meetings) is easy. All these views stay in sync with your data source, so you can have as many different perspectives of your product plan as you like without having to manually reorganize or update the data for different stakeholders.
Can I adjust the timescales used in the product roadmap template?
Yes, you can adjust the timescales shown on your product roadmap at any time, here are the options:
Weeks & Days
Sprints & Days
Months & Days
Months & Weeks
Quarters & Weeks
Quarters & Months
Years & Months
Can I organize my product roadmap in sprints using this product roadmap template?
Yes, to organize your product roadmap by sprints, click on the “More” button in the product roadmap view, then select “Zoom,” and from the dropdown menu, choose “Sprints & Days.”
Can I use Visor’s Product Roadmap Smart 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.
Although the Visor Free plan does not include the Gantt chart view, you can still use the Timeline view to create your product roadmaps for free, either by using Smart Templates or from scratch.
Why is using a Smart Template for my product roadmap better than a generic product roadmap template?
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 roadmaps and other visualizations infused with best practices and fully customized to your precise requirements and objectives.
The difference between Smart Templates and regular templates for a product roadmap 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 for your product roadmap gets you off to the best possible start, saves you hours per roadmap created, and saves you heaps of frustration. It’s a genuine game-changer in your ability to plan and visualize the development of all your products.
Who is this product roadmap template for?
This product roadmap template is for any product manager who wants a stunning, easy way to visualize their product plans. It is especially powerful for product owners or managers using Jira or if you need to create portfolio roadmaps that include projects for multiple products in a single, cohesive view.
Can I add milestones to product roadmaps using this template?
Yes, you can easily set specific tasks as milestones in the product roadmap that Visor’s AI Smart Template generates. The AI does not set these milestones, instead all you need to do is select the milestone option in the “Display As” dropdown field on your product roadmap view.
Can I nest epics, user stories, tasks and subtasks (or other parent and child relationships) using this product roadmap template?
Yes, product roadmaps created in Visor have comprehensive task-nesting support. Nesting is made easy in Visor. You can nest records below another record using:
Drag-and-drop
Keyboard shortcuts
The record settings drop-down menu
If you import projects from apps like Jira, Asana, or Salesforce, Visor can maintain your nesting in full, so you don’t need to waste time re-nesting your project data.
Can I create multiple product roadmaps using Smart Templates?
Yes, you can easily create multiple product roadmaps using Smart Templates. Just create a new workbook in Visor, and when prompted to select “What is this workbook for?” click the ‘Use Smart Template” button, and let the AI start working with your data and your inputs to create your new product roadmap.
Besides product roadmap templates, 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.
If you already have a Visor account, simply click New Workbook from 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.
What is a product product roadmap used for?
Product roadmaps are used to:
Visualize and adjust your product development plan
Align internal and external stakeholders
Provide a substantive view of your product strategy
Assist in planning discussions and scenario planning
Track the completion of product development tasks at a high-level
Help non-engineering and product stakeholders to understand the product strategy
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