ProductPlan Reviews

I am a big fan of concise roadmap planning; ProductPlan is the perfect tool I have used for years. The best feature is the ability to rank products for consideration.

The inability to product PowerPoint or other presentation slides.

ProductPlan helps my business by allowing me to create and maintain dynamic product plans and roadmaps that can be shared across the organization and with customers. The integration with other products like Trello and JIRA make ProductPlan the perfect companion.

Easy to build a product narrative in the tool

Cannot import my brand colors. I have to enter all 17 via the hex codes for each roadmap

Telling the development narrative for a product

I like the transparency that it creates within a company. It's simple to use and the view access is great from a company project.

The milestone part is a little awkward, visually.

The problem we are solving for is transparency across departments. So each dept has a road map lane.

A Product Roadmap is not only a visual way of strategic and tactical planning, but it’s also a vehicle for storytelling about your products. We rely heavily on Product Plan to help us articulate that story from the leadership team down to the individual product development teams. Providing easy-to-use functionality, it didn’t require training for any of our collaborators to use the tool. Simple to use, simple to collaborate and simple to visualize! The Product Plan team is also constantly improving their product by incorporating new and useful features, and their communication about those features is always thoughtful and concise.

Frankly speaking, I can't think of anything I dislike.

Before using Product Plan, we relied on other ways of product planning - typically using offline files that required file sharing. We quickly had many different roadmap versions to maintain making it quite difficult to keep all of them up-to-date. Additionally, even with the various strategic to tactical roadmaps we maintained and shared, there was still a bit of a gap with visibility & awareness. Product Plan has resolved each of these issues. While we still maintain a couple of different styles of roadmaps (for different audiences), they are all in 1 place and they are all linked - making it easy to keep all of them up to date. Additionally, we have incorporated additional users to assist with collaboration on the relevant roadmaps; thus enhancing visibility and awareness and introducing better collaboration!

It was easy, and simple enough to understand what should I do to create my schedule. I liked any entry in product plan with an ADO PBI, which was great to sync data.

Some of the time line items were not necessarily in the right order, besides all items were set on a calendar year. Table and list view were perfect. I had to re-arrange items manually, which was not an easy task.

In my case, I'm using ProductPlan for a maintenance calendar for some cloud infrastructure. I'm a big fan of "A picture is better of a thousand words". Having a lot of items, and have a way to interact with them, from a table or a list view, is priceless to me. And it was well done through the product.

Before ProductPlan, we created our product roadmaps on PowerPoint which took forever and limited the level of detail we could add. Now, our roadmaps can be created, adjusted, and detailed as much as needed. I love the filtering capabilities, the tagging capabilities, and the ability to link items that are dependent on each other. Our roadmaps are stronger than ever thanks to having a real tool for the job.

My biggest complaint lately has been that if I'm not the roadmap owner, I cannot make a copy of the roadmap. This is a pain and requires me to reach out to the owner whenever I need to iterate. I also wish that there were configurable custom fields we could add and then filter on.

Take advantage of the tags and other fields for adding more details. This makes it much easier to refine for specific viewers later on.

ProductPlan is allowing us to easily create and update roadmaps with a strong level of detail - the filtering capabilities also ensure we are able to share relevant roadmap details with the people who need it.

Containers and lanes help us show trade offs and go from high level to more detail during a quarter

I wish I could see a quarterly view which when I zoom in turns into a weekly view. Different settings call for different views for the same roadmap.

Being able to clear up discussions about why were delayed and trade offs with leadership. Being able to get third party partners to commit to quarter timelines

The key feature for me was how quickly and pain-free I could create a Gannt chart style roadmap, then make edits as situations changed regarding our own product planning. All other tools I evaluated required excess data entry, often requiring backend data edits that drove the chart graphics. Here, you get right to it - and then there is so much more that adds value, such as being able to provide details that appear in tool-tips for viewers that roadmaps are shared with, export of roadmaps to files, and MS Teams integration, which has provided a handy way for us to share roadmaps as well as changes to them.

Some minor things are rough around the edges here or there, but its all reasonably easy to work around and get what you need. As the admin for my team, I wish I had more control over some of visual and use aspects (more group policy). I also wish there was a way for us to pluck high-priority items from multiple roadmaps in our team, and show them in their own prioritized list - as this helps navigate bottlenecks in our product development or marketing processes. The ProductPlan folks have been very receptive to feedback.

There's simply nothing like it

The primary purpose served is to create and maintain product line plans to share with stakeholders in the company. While fundamentally a strategic purpose, these plans now also serve tactical needs by foreshadowing the allocation of engineering and marketing resources for managers.

ProductPlan affords easy web-based sharing that allows viewers to navigate an interactive roadmap rather than a hardcopy, as our previous tools forced us to use. Of course, export of hardcopies are still possible using PP, which is a bonus and required if you also need to track change over time (or see how roadmaps have changed).

Easy to use and continuously updated with new features

Missing a few small things to also serve as a Scrum Board.

I need to communicate expected delivery and progress to a wide array of stakeholders - some technical, some not and some with agile training. This makes managing that process so easy.

Our company loves how easy it is to use ProductPlan. The interface of the tool is very simple and intuitive. It is also powerful as well. There are just so many cool things you can do with the tool. Our company really likes the timeline view. When you create a roadmap, the timeline view lets you see your roadmap in a Gantt style view. The timeline view consists of swimlanes and bars. We use each swimlane to represent a release. We can customize the name of each release by renaming the swimlane. We also include the capacity (in story points) for each swimlane too. This is very helpful when we do capacity planning. We love how easy it was to transition from Microsoft Excel based roadmaps to web-based roadmaps.

While the roadmaps are powerful, the portfolio feature (which combines roadmaps into a single view) could use some improvement. Nice features for future consideration may include selecting specific epics from linked roadmaps.

If you use Jira and utilize epics, take advantage of ProductPlan's ability to sync data with Jira.

Our company uses Jira to manage users stories. While Jira excels at project management at the micro level, it's a little bit lacking at the macro level. ProductPlan helps our Product Development team clearly communicate timelines and capacity planning to our executive leadership team.