Roadmaps in Lane help you communicate your product strategy, align cross-functional teams, and keep stakeholders informed - whether you’re planning high-level goals or detailed feature releases. With flexible layouts and deep customization, you can create strategic or delivery-focused roadmaps tailored to how your team works.

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Roadmap styles in Lane

Lane supports two styles of roadmaps:
  • Swimlane Roadmap: A board-style view, great for visualizing strategic themes, OKRs, or initiatives over time.
  • Timeline Roadmap: A horizontal timeline layout, ideal for planning feature releases, product launches, or sprint cycles.

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Supported objects

Roadmaps in Lane are powered by the objects you already manage - Objectives, Features, and Insights. You can build different kinds of roadmaps depending on your planning needs:
  • Strategic Roadmap: Use a Swimlane layout with Objectives as the primary object.
  • Release Roadmap: Use a Timeline layout with Features to track upcoming releases.
  • Discovery Roadmap: Use a Timeline or Swimlane layout with Insights to manage ongoing research and discovery.

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Creating a roadmap

You can start from a ready-made template or build your roadmap from scratch. To create a roadmap:
  1. Click the + icon next to Roadmaps in the sidebar.
  2. Select a pre-defined template or start customizing from scratch.
  3. Choose between Timeline or Swimlane layout.
  4. Select the Primary object (Objective, Feature, or Insight).
  5. Customize the roadmap:
    • Columns: Based on timeframe, release stages, or statuses.
    • Group by: Product, assignee, etc.
    • Sub-group by: Status, importance, priority, and more.
This structure allows you to start simple and scale as needed - from basic plans to comprehensive views of your product strategy.

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Roadmap fields

Each roadmap includes key fields to help you track ownership and progress:
  • Status: Indicates the current stage of the roadmap item (e.g., Planned, In Progress, Shipped).
  • Health: Reflects whether the roadmap item is on track, at risk, or off track.
  • Owner: Identifies the person responsible for driving the roadmap item forward.
These fields ensure accountability and help teams stay aligned as plans evolve.

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Sharing roadmaps

Roadmaps are account-level objects - every roadmap created is visible to all members within your Lane workspace. Roadmaps can be shared in two ways:
  • Internal sharing (Company): Automatically accessible to all team members inside Lane by default for every roadmap created.
  • Public sharing (Public): Share a view-only version with external stakeholders, such as customers or partners, via a secure public link.
This ensures alignment without requiring every stakeholder to have access to Lane.

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Best practices

  • Start with a template to quickly spin up your first roadmap.
  • Keep roadmaps updated by linking to real-time progress from connected objects.
  • Share public views during customer calls or stakeholder reviews for transparency.

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FAQs

Q: Can I include multiple objects in the same roadmap?
A: Each roadmap is powered by a single object (Objective, Feature, or Insight) but you can create multiple roadmaps for different layers of planning. Q: Can I change the layout after creating a roadmap?
A: The layout (Timeline or Swimlane) is set during creation and cannot be changed later. You can create a new roadmap if you want to switch formats. Q: Who can see a public roadmap?
A: Anyone with the public link can view the roadmap. They don’t need a Lane account.