Communicate what's coming up in future releases of your product.
Communicate what's coming up in future releases of your product! This roadmap is ideal for planning milestones with a fixed scope or new versions of your product on a regular release schedule (e.g. mobile app).
In this article:
- How to create a Release plan roadmap
- When to use a Release plan roadmap
- Learn more about using Release plan roadmaps
How to create a Release plan roadmap
Create your roadmap
- Navigate to your Roadmap board.
- From the drop-down menu, select Create Roadmap.
- Select Release plan from the left menu.
- Click Choose roadmap
- Click Add release.
- Select the desired release group.
- Select one release from the drop-down menu to create your first column.
Add or create more release columns
- Click Add release.
- To add an existing release, select it from the drop-down menu.
- o create a new release, click Add new release and give your release a name.
Rearrange release column order
- To add a column to the left or right, select the
menu and click Add right or Add left. Then select the release you wish to add.
- You can also change the order of columns by clicking on the release name to drag and drop it into your desired location.
Add features to a Release plan roadmap
There are three different ways to add a feature to a Release plan roadmap:
- Add the feature via a release group column on the Features board. For more information, see the article Plan releases to decide what to deliver, when.
- On a feature detail view, scroll down to the release group field. Click on the release group and select or create the desired release.
- On the Release plan roadmap, click the [+] sign to add or create a new feature within that release.
How to organize your Release plan roadmap
- Click Settings to open up the configuration menu.
- Use Swimlanes to organize your roadmap horizontally.
- Toggle Effort to display story points on each feature card.
- Toggle Owner to display the owner's avatar on each feature card.
Scale and Enterprise plans: Toggle Objectives to display any objectives associated with that feature.
- Toggle Show hidden cards to display feature and subfeature cards that have been manually hidden from contributors.
- Toggle Show subfeatures to display associated subfeature cards.
Organize by hierarchy
- Click on Settings in the top right corner to access additional organization options.
- Select Hierarchy to group feature ideas by their relevant components or sub-components.
Organize by objectives (Scale and Enterprise plans)
- Click on Settings in the top right corner to access additional organization options.
- Select Objectives to group feature ideas by their relevant objective.
- Toggle Priority to display how important this feature is towards the overarching objective.
- Toggle Team to display the team associated with the overarching objective.
- Click the down-facing caret on an objective to hide or expand its associated features.
- Drag and drop your objectives to adjust the order in which they're displayed.
How to share and export your Release plan roadmap
- After making any configuration changes, click Save roadmap. You will see confirmation once your roadmap changes have been saved, and the Save button will read Share.
- Click Share to configure your roadmap sharing settings.
- Click Print to print your roadmap.
- Click Export to image to generate a PNG of your roadmap.
When to use a Release plan roadmap
Release plan roadmaps are good for:
- Communicating about release objects which aren't time-bound, e.g. a release object called "Mobile update 10.2".
- Teams which don't release continuously, or which release less frequently.
Release plan roadmaps might not be good for:
- Communicating about roadmaps that are time-bound, e.g. a release object called "October".Consider using a Release timeline roadmap instead.
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