Question 1

How does roadmapping work in Planoda?

Accepted Answer

A roadmap in Planoda is a live view of initiatives, projects, and cycles, not a separate deck you maintain. Because those all share one schema with the underlying issues, the timeline and each project's health update themselves as work moves — you never reconcile slides against reality. Initiatives group related projects, projects roll up progress from their issues, and dependencies across projects surface risk early. Share a read-only public link with leadership and they always see the current truth, with no seat required, while initiative-level trends live in Insights instead of a hand-built status report.

Question 2

Can stakeholders see the roadmap without a paid seat?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Public share links give leadership and other stakeholders read-only access to the current roadmap without needing a Planoda seat. Because the link renders live work rather than an exported snapshot, what they see is always up to date — there's no afternoon spent reconciling a deck before a review. You control what's shared, and the underlying data stays governed by per-tenant row-level security, so only the roadmap you deliberately expose is visible and the rest of the workspace stays private.

Question 3

How does the roadmap stay up to date?

Accepted Answer

It updates itself. The roadmap is a view over real issues, projects, and cycles on one schema, so as issues change status, timelines and project health recompute live — there's no separate artifact to sync. That's the core difference from a slide deck, which is stale the moment it's shared. Dependencies across projects surface downstream risk early, and initiative-level trends in Insights show delivery pace over time, so a review reads current data instead of a reconstruction someone spent an afternoon assembling.

Question 4

What's the difference between initiatives, projects, and cycles?

Accepted Answer

They're nested layers of the same schema. Initiatives are the largest unit — a strategic theme or goal that spans multiple projects. Projects group the issues that deliver a specific outcome and roll their progress up to the initiative. Cycles are the time-boxed sprints the day-to-day issues run in. Because they share one data model, work you track in a cycle flows up through its project to its initiative automatically, so the roadmap reflects real execution without any manual rollup or a separate reporting step.

Question 5

Can I see cross-project dependencies on the roadmap?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Dependencies are modeled explicitly and surface across projects, so a project waiting on another team's work shows what it's blocked on and the risk becomes visible before it slips the timeline. That's what lets the roadmap flag trouble early rather than after a deadline has already moved. Because everything is one workspace, those dependency links span teams without a tool boundary. For a deeper look at hand-offs between teams, see the cross-team dependencies use case.

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