Product Roadmap Maker

A product roadmap is a high-level strategic document that visualizes the direction and priorities of your product over time. It's the single source of truth that aligns stakeholders—from the C-suite to the development team—on a shared product vision. The Product Roadmap Maker tool is a simple, interactive utility designed to help Product Managers and founders create and visualize a basic roadmap using the popular "Now, Next, Later" framework. This framework prioritizes initiatives based on urgency and strategic importance without committing to rigid deadlines, which is ideal for agile environments. This tool allows you to quickly add initiatives, organize them into columns, and rearrange them with a simple drag-and-drop interface, providing a clear, at-a-glance view of your product strategy.

1. Add an Initiative: Type a new feature, theme, or epic into the input field at the top (e.g., "Implement new user onboarding," "Improve search performance").
2. Add to Roadmap: Click the "Add Item" button. Your new initiative will automatically be added to the "Now" column.
3. Organize Your Roadmap: Drag and drop items between the "Now," "Next," and "Later" columns to reflect their priority. You can also reorder items within a single column.
4. Visualize Your Strategy: Use the board to present your high-level plan to stakeholders, facilitate discussions, and create alignment on what the team is focusing on.

• Simple and Visual: The Kanban-style interface is intuitive and makes it easy for anyone to understand the product strategy at a glance.
• Flexible and Agile-Friendly: The "Now, Next, Later" framework avoids specific dates, providing the flexibility needed in modern product development to adapt to new learnings.
• Enhances Communication: Provides a clear and simple artifact that can be used to communicate priorities to engineering teams, leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Facilitates Prioritization: The act of dragging items between columns encourages thoughtful discussion about the relative importance and urgency of different initiatives.