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A roadmap is always about visualizing larger chunks of a story map. The release roadmap and portfolio roadmap work great if you use releases to group user stories into tangible pieces, such as 'MVP', ' Feature X', 'Capability Y' etc.

A release roadmap helps product teams by providing a short-term plan for upcoming releases, detailing which features, improvements, or fixes will be delivered and when. It aligns development efforts with business priorities, ensuring teams stay focused and stakeholders have clear expectations about delivery timelines.

A portfolio roadmap, on the other hand, offers a high-level, long-term strategic view of multiple products or initiatives across the organization. It helps teams prioritize work based on business goals, market trends, and available resources, ensuring alignment between product development and overall company strategy. Together, these roadmaps guide teams in balancing short-term execution with long-term vision.

Roadmaps on StoriesOnBoard support teams to create and customize their roadmap structure according to their requirements.

When you create a release roadmap you can approach the creation in two ways:

You can create your roadmap either of these ways, you can add new cards to the roadmap and link release(s) and/or user stories to it to track progression.

First of all make sure that you created the right roadmap. You must create a release roadmap in order to be able to link release(s) and track tehir progress on a roadmap card.

💡 Tip - Learn more about How to create a release roadmap.

Once you have your roadmap ready, you can add new roadmap cards to it and link release(s) that you want to track.

To add a new roadmap card simply move your cursor around. The add new roadmap card option will appear when you move the cursor under a card or into a new column.

Create the card and enter card title, description to include details. To link a release select the "Link releases" option.

Select a release or multiple releases you want to track on the given roadmap card.

Once you saved your settings all details of your linked release(s) will be available. You can then:

You can also link multiple releases to a single roadmap card to track larger initiatives and their progress. In this case, the status report of each linked releases will be summarized in the report and displayed on the roadmap card.

Individual reports are also available in details as it is shown below. You can any time access the story map where the release is located to see the big picture and context of the backlog, access release tracking or release specific reports.

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