<aside> <img src="/icons/light-bulb_yellow.svg" alt="/icons/light-bulb_yellow.svg" width="40px" /> Roadmaps give a bird’s-eye view of what your company is planning and actively working on, across functions, departments, and/or teams. Because they often involve many interdependent work streams, it can be helpful to map them visually before documenting them in detail.
Here, we recommend starting by outlining your roadmap in Whimsical board, then structuring projects and dependencies in a Notion database.
*Whimsical is a platform for shared visual thought. When used in conjunction with Notion, it’s ideal for early-stage thinking about projects and processes to then document in your team’s Notion files.*
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<aside> <img src="/icons/info-alternate_purple.svg" alt="/icons/info-alternate_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Work with colleagues in a Whimsical board to map out the projected duration or scoped time investment for projects, using connectors to indicate dependencies. It’s OK if your outline gets messy! Think of this as a place for rough thinking, where you can add stickies, comments, and ideas before committing to a plan together.
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[Whimsical Quarterly Product Roadmap Template](https://whimsical.com/quarterly-product-roadmap-HqmCLF5zNdux3mBaCxJthP@7YNFXnKbYm9jKHEwopyCo)
Whimsical Quarterly Product Roadmap Template
<aside> 💡 Tip: Don’t roadmap too early! Roadmaps assume you have a clear sense of what you’ll be working on in the near-term. To get to that point, however, it can be helpful to first explore and define OKRs, e.g. by using the OKRs and Projects template.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/info-alternate_purple.svg" alt="/icons/info-alternate_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Once you’ve shared and refined the roadmap board, begin documenting projects in detail using Notion’s project management database features like sub-tasks and dependencies. As priorities and timelines shift, it can be helpful to return to the visual board to rethink things before changing them in your database.
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