5 ms·

Ask HN: What are the most popular product roadmap tools?

34 points by traviswingo 10y ago

hartator 10y ago
Trello and Asana are pretty good.
tomashertus 10y ago
Don't know if it is the most popular tool, but I can definitely recommend ProductBoard - https://www.productboard.com/ https://www.productboard.com/ It is beautiful app with many integrations(Zendesk, Jira, Trelo, Slack, etc) and many features which helps you to conduct research, prioritize what to build next, communicate plans and progress. Hubert, the CEO of PB, is also very active on Medium where he writes about product management - https://medium.com/@hpalan https://medium.com/@hpalan
Bookington 10y ago
Sounds stupid, but if you are talking big milestones and overall vision, Excel works just fine.
- imbeau 10y ago
  Yeah I've tried a lot of these and every time I find that I'm not actually doing anything productive, but just linking pieces of text together. They seem like the ultimate busywork tools.
rudimental 10y ago
Aha is such a tool - some PMs swear by it. It seems ok. It's super expensive.
- itomato 10y ago
  Aha is an excellent way to visualize and bootstrap a complex product. JIRA integration is effective and is bidirectional. When it is necessary to provide timelines that allocate not only dates, but effort in terms of hours that be mapped to cost, it beats MSProject. More efficient, more flexible and the trial period is sufficient to make the leap into a proper Agile tool like Trello,JIRA, orAsana via Zapier.
olegious 10y ago
Prodpad is great. Trello is also flexible enough to be used with many different workflows.
voycey 10y ago
JIRA Agile would cover most things you need, attractive if you are already tied into the Atlassian eco-system. https://www.atlassian.com/agile/roadmaps https://www.atlassian.com/agile/roadmaps
calciphus 10y ago
I've used Product Plan consistently for the last several years. http://productplan.com http://productplan.com Full disclosure: I helped them get started (supplied some early coding time).
- dsshanley 10y ago
  We use ProductPlan here, at Notion (http://usenotion.com http://usenotion.com) too, and we're really happy with it. We wrote a bit about it, and the ProductPlan team put it on their blog: https://www.productplan.com/data-driven-roadmap/ https://www.productplan.com/data-driven-roadmap/. At my last company, it was a mix of spreadsheets and Confluence.
maddyjk11 10y ago
If it's not already on your radar, be sure to check out ProductPlan. It's intuitive and very visual: www.productplan.com

34 points by traviswingo 10y ago

Trello and Asana are pretty good.

Don't know if it is the most popular tool, but I can definitely recommend ProductBoard - https://www.productboard.com/ https://www.productboard.com/ It is beautiful app with many integrations(Zendesk, Jira, Trelo, Slack, etc) and many features which helps you to conduct research, prioritize what to build next, communicate plans and progress. Hubert, the CEO of PB, is also very active on Medium where he writes about product management - https://medium.com/@hpalan https://medium.com/@hpalan

Bookington 10y ago

Sounds stupid, but if you are talking big milestones and overall vision, Excel works just fine.

imbeau 10y ago
Yeah I've tried a lot of these and every time I find that I'm not actually doing anything productive, but just linking pieces of text together. They seem like the ultimate busywork tools.

rudimental 10y ago

Aha is such a tool - some PMs swear by it. It seems ok. It's super expensive.

itomato 10y ago
Aha is an excellent way to visualize and bootstrap a complex product. JIRA integration is effective and is bidirectional. When it is necessary to provide timelines that allocate not only dates, but effort in terms of hours that be mapped to cost, it beats MSProject. More efficient, more flexible and the trial period is sufficient to make the leap into a proper Agile tool like Trello,JIRA, orAsana via Zapier.

olegious 10y ago

Prodpad is great. Trello is also flexible enough to be used with many different workflows.

voycey 10y ago

JIRA Agile would cover most things you need, attractive if you are already tied into the Atlassian eco-system. https://www.atlassian.com/agile/roadmaps https://www.atlassian.com/agile/roadmaps

calciphus 10y ago

I've used Product Plan consistently for the last several years. http://productplan.com http://productplan.com Full disclosure: I helped them get started (supplied some early coding time).

dsshanley 10y ago
We use ProductPlan here, at Notion (http://usenotion.com http://usenotion.com) too, and we're really happy with it. We wrote a bit about it, and the ProductPlan team put it on their blog: https://www.productplan.com/data-driven-roadmap/ https://www.productplan.com/data-driven-roadmap/. At my last company, it was a mix of spreadsheets and Confluence.

maddyjk11 10y ago

If it's not already on your radar, be sure to check out ProductPlan. It's intuitive and very visual: www.productplan.com