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

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Post by traviswingo » Sun, Aug 07, 2016, 4:15 PM UTC

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Post by hartator » Sun, Aug 07, 2016, 6:06 PM UTC

Trello and Asana are pretty good.

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Post by tomashertus » Sun, Aug 07, 2016, 6:09 PM UTC

Don't know if it is the most popular tool, but I can definitely recommend ProductBoard - 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

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Post by Bookington » Sun, Aug 07, 2016, 6:10 PM UTC

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

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Post by rudimental » Sun, Aug 07, 2016, 7:06 PM UTC

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

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Post by imbeau » Sun, Aug 07, 2016, 7:26 PM UTC

Bookington wrote: post #4

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

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.

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Post by olegious » Sun, Aug 07, 2016, 11:47 PM UTC

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

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Post by voycey » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 1:47 AM UTC

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

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Post by itomato » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 4:15 AM UTC

rudimental wrote: post #5

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

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.

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Post by calciphus » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 6:08 AM UTC

I've used Product Plan consistently for the last several years.

http://productplan.com

Full disclosure: I helped them get started (supplied some early coding time).