Introduction
In Tech projects, there is the Product team from one side with all the amazing tools like Linear fully designed for them, but there is also the business side, and it's where complications start.
Having a Public Roadmap is part of it ⚡️
Our Challenges in Product Management:
Fragmented Communication: Often, we juggle multiple communication platforms (slack, WhatsApp, teams, call…) for different aspects of product management, leading to miscommunication and lost information.
Inefficient Client Interaction: Traditional methods of client interaction are time-consuming and prone to misunderstandings, there are notes everywhere.
Roadmap Visibility: Stakeholders, including clients, struggle to access real-time updates and progress reports, causing uncertainty and frustration. And most of the time, as PM we're spending time sharing those info to create reinsurance 🎯
And this last point is probably why you're reading this article.
How to make a Public Roadmap when you're using Linear.
Go to workspace Roadmaps settings to turn on roadmaps for your workspace. Once you do, the Roadmap icon will appear in the lefthand sidebar, under Views.
You can choose the first month of the fiscal year if needed, which is used when grouping projects by quarters, half-year, and year.
To share it with your stakeholders, before, we were sharing screenshots of our "in-house" roadmap displayed in Linear.
It's very time-consuming, and not very scalable with multiple clients.
A more scalable way to create a Public Roadmap with Linear
Linear has a strong directory of official integrations to increase the overall Linear Experience ❤️ SteelSync is part of them now. How it works?
After you sign up, select your team and projects to create a shareable board, initiating real-time issue synchronization.
Sharing the board grants stakeholders real-time access to current in progress Kanban, view issues, submit requests to the triage section, and see upcoming project updates and release, contingent upon your permissions. You’ll also be able to create public roadmap and personalized all your boards with icons and colors.
🎁 Make each board Private with an access code or Public.
And now it's becoming very transparent and scalable, for example you can see above a snapshot of our public roadmap for SteelSync accessible through our Public Board view.
Create board views based on Linear Teams and Projects, create your public roadmap within their board, and share this private/public board view URL with your stakeholders.
NB: we don't auto-sync Linear Roadmap on your boards as most of the time they are not up to date and you don't want to share outdated info. So you can now focus on creating the roadmap you want to display on the board 👇
Enjoy, I hope this article will help you.
François
