Creating a strategic roadmap is vital for aligning your team’s efforts and keeping stakeholders in the loop. While Linear is fantastic for tech teams, integrating SteelSync can elevate your roadmap game. As a tech agency founder who’s passionate about streamlining processes, I’m excited to show you how SteelSync can transform your roadmap strategy!
Having Roadmaps 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 that info to create reinsurance 🎯
And this last point is probably why you're reading this article.
Developing a Roadmap Strategy in Linear
Define Your Objectives
Start by setting clear goals and milestones for your project. Use Linear to organize these into well-structured roadmaps.
Create your first roadmap
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.
Create and Prioritize Features
Add features, tasks, and deadlines to your Linear roadmap
Share this roadmap with your project stakeholders
Ah … Not that easy this step right?
A more scalable way to create a Public Roadmap with Linear (automatically 🔥)
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 releases, contingent upon your permissions. You’ll also be able to create an automatically synced public roadmap and personalize 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. Automatically sync from our Linear data 🔥
Create board views based on Linear Teams and Projects, automatically sync your public roadmap within their board, and share this private/public board view URL with your stakeholders.
Integrating Bug Reports and Feature Requests (🎁)
Seamless Integration
With SteelSync, bug reports and feature requests from Linear are directly included in your public/private board. This integration keeps your project dynamic and responsive to feedback.
Track Progress
Keep track of bugs and feature requests within your In Progress section, providing transparency and ensuring your team and stakeholders are always in the know.
Conclusion
By integrating SteelSync within your Linear ecosystem, you'll be able to streamline your workflow. Each board will provide you:
Public and Private Sharing Options: Whether you need a public roadmap or a private one with access codes, SteelSync has you covered. Share your roadmap based on your stakeholders’ needs and preferences.
Real-Time Updates: Say goodbye to manual updates! SteelSync ensures your Linear Data is always up-to-date, so stakeholders have the latest information at their fingertips.
Customizable Views: Personalize your boards with section visibility, logos, colors, and descriptions to make them visually appealing and easy to understand.
Enjoy, I hope this article will help you.
François - Founder
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