IT project management, like every other discipline in modern business, is heavily dependent on technology and data to be effective. Unlike other disciplines, however, technology has not had a significant impact on how project-management processes are performed. The same activities that were once done manually are now supported by software to improve efficiency.

If you’re part of a design team, chances are that you have at times experienced slow-paced product development coupled with a long dev backlog (with limited space for additional tickets from the UX team). But to optimize how the product team (whether PO, UI, UX, or frontend devs) work together, it helps to experiment with useful tools, physical boards, and new processes. For example, here is an exhaustive yet simple UX project checklist.

Product roadmap templates make it easy to structure and communicate your product plans. But when considering which template to go with, it is important to think about who the roadmap is for, what you want to communicate, and what information you want to include. So, I put together a list of 16 downloadable Excel and PowerPoint templates that you can tailor to your specific roadmap needs, including.