Roadmapping is central to product management. A strong roadmap translates strategy into a clear, time-based plan, aligns stakeholders, and tracks execution against goals. But to be effective, it must also be easy to plan, flexible to adapt, simple to manage, clear for all stakeholders and powerful enough to present from multiple perspectives.

Guided by customer feedback, the new Timeline View has been rebuilt from the ground up to improve both planning and execution. It replaces the old timeline with faster performance, greater flexibility, a cleaner design, and smarter automations. Further, the new timeline introduces a host of features that streamline roadmapping, including item sorting, hierarchy-based visualization, smoother drag-and-drop, milestones, OKR swimlanes, redesigned cards, upgraded legend bar and more.

All of this ensures that roadmapping remains a reliable tool for planning and communication. To get started, simply add a new timeline view to your workspace or portfolio. Alternatively, convert your existing timeline view to a new one from the Actions menu in your old timeline view.

Product managers need roadmaps that are structured yet adaptable as priorities evolve. The new timeline view makes organizing and navigating complex roadmaps much easier, designed to deal with complex and large-scale products that contain a large number of items. While the old timeline relied heavily on manual dragging, the new timeline view introduces flexible sorting options. Items can now be sorted by hierarchy, rank, or any other field. Each initially appears on its own row, ideally for planning. With this enhancement, users are now able to adjust the timeline to different perspectives. For example, sort by hierarchy to emphasize parent-child relationships, or by fields such as status or importance to highlight progress or priorities.

In parallel, the drag-and-drop is now smoother and more intuitive. Items can be resized in one direction or moved vertically and horizontally. To maintain clarity, horizontal movement is limited to swimlane changes (except when sorting by hierarchy or rank), and diagonal moves are restricted. Enhanced UI cues, including shadows and blue lines, clearly indicate the outcome of each action.

The timeline now makes parent-child structures clear and flexible. When sorted by hierarchy, you can expand or collapse items to control the level of detail shown with a small arrow next to the parent items. Likewise, families are highlighted with a light blue shadow background to reinforce relationships visualization. This flexibility makes roadmapping more dynamic, ensuring one source of truth while tailoring the timeline view to your audience. For instance, users might collapse child items to present epics and initiatives to executives, then expand them when collaborating with delivery teams.

The new sort and drag-and-drop is also enhanced with powerful automation. To reduce wasted space for presentation, as each item occupies a separate row, the new timeline incorporates another layer of automation - the Auto-stack items mode.

Auto-stack mode intelligently merges items with non-overlapping dates and the same sort values, producing a compact view that shows the full picture. For example, when reviewing quarterly plans, users can activate auto-stack to see all initiatives for a specific quarter on a single screen. This makes it easy to identify bottlenecks, such as too many launches scheduled for the same week, and adjust plans accordingly. As a result, roadmapping becomes more efficient and presentations become easier to follow. To use it, enable the "Auto stack items" toggle in the "Visualization" section of the view settings and let the magic reorder your items.

Product managers must often communicate how work contributes to different goals or commitments. Specifically, many product teams work with objectives and key results (OKRs) or other multi-select fields. The new timeline supports these directly: items linked to multiple objectives now appear in all relevant swimlanes. For example, if a feature supports both objectives “Improve Onboarding” and “Increase Retention,” it will be visible in both objectives swimlanes, ensuring relevance is visible to all stakeholders. Additionally, teams can also use the new timeframes custom field as swimlanes. Following this change, we also adjust the drag-and-drop between swimlanes, so if an item is moved into a swimlane where it already exists, the duplicates are automatically merged. Lastly, we added a new Objective Timeline Guru View that provides a ready-to-use setup for OKR-driven teams. This ensures that roadmapping supports not only planning but also goal alignment and communication.

Communicating progress and dependencies is vital for roadmap credibility. The new timeline introduces redesigned cards that display more information in a modern, compact design. Cards now display progress directly with a color-coded bar, while hovering reveals the exact progress percentage in the middle of the progress bar, and clicking on the progress bar opens the full detailed progress pop-up. Dependencies are consolidated in a renovated unified pop-up for both workspace and inter-workspace dependencies, clarifying how work is connected in and across teams.

Another dimension of items data on your timeline is the cards and swimlanes' colors. The legend bar was upgraded to manage all colors, display automated consistency of coloring across both cards and swimlanes, and, in parallel, provide flexibility to represent more complex legend preferences. The new legend bar default option is to keep the coordination between the swimlanes and the item cards legends so that items will be automatically presented in light of the chosen swimlanes without manual adaptation of the two. Nevertheless, users can also split between the swimlanes and legends options and add additional data about the items to the view. For instance, users will be able to swimlane by different products or epics and then color items by their status, while even sorting by importance. Altogether, combining three different data fields to be visualised on the timeline. Moreover, the legend bar dropdown was enhanced with additional optional fields, making the legend bar a highly flexible tool. Users can choose to legend by almost all system and custom fields, from status to the new milestones custom fields. Lastly, to match the display that is right for you, the legend bar can be expanded or collapsed by using a small arrow at the right corner of the legend bar.

Eventually, the new date range and resolution controls were also enhanced with greater clarity, flexibility, and automation. The renewed date range controller now focuses on months and allows any date range, even shorter than two years. Further, a “+6 months” navigation arrow enables quick extensions when scrolling to the limits of the chosen date range, indicating the range limit and enabling extending the date range by an additional six months.

The resolution controller was also upgraded. Along with the previous resolution options, from yearly to weekly levels, users can now choose the auto-fit resolution. Selecting Auto-Fit automatically adjusts the timeline resolution to match the chosen date range. These updates make it easy to switch between broad strategic views and detailed tactical perspectives without manual adjustments.