Tempo Roadmaps
Build beautiful product roadmaps, share strategy with stakeholders, and align your team — formerly Roadmunk.
Tempo Roadmaps Review: The Product Roadmap Tool That Makes Strategy Communication Beautiful
Product roadmaps serve two distinct purposes that most tools handle poorly simultaneously — internal planning for the team and external communication for stakeholders. Tempo Roadmaps, built on the foundation of the widely adopted Roadmunk platform, was designed to serve both — providing powerful roadmap visualisation options including timeline, swimlane, and portfolio views that can be shared with different stakeholder audiences through separate links with different levels of detail, keeping sensitive internal planning information private while communicating strategy clearly to executives, customers, and board members.
Quick Summary
Tempo Roadmaps is an AI-powered product roadmap platform providing timeline and swimlane roadmap visualisation, customer feedback collection, stakeholder sharing with granular permission controls, and AI-assisted roadmap generation — now part of Tempo Software’s integrated planning suite.
Is it worth using? Yes for product managers and product teams who need powerful roadmap visualisation and stakeholder sharing beyond what general project management tools provide, with the added benefit of Tempo’s broader planning ecosystem.
Who should use it? Product managers, heads of product, and product operations teams who want dedicated roadmap visualisation that communicates strategy clearly to different stakeholder audiences — particularly those already using Jira or other Atlassian tools.
Who should avoid it? Teams who want a comprehensive product management platform covering feedback through execution end-to-end, where Productboard’s workflow is more appropriate.
Verdict Summary
Best for
- Product managers who spend significant time maintaining and sharing roadmaps with multiple stakeholder audiences and want a dedicated tool that makes this work efficient
- Teams in the Atlassian ecosystem who want roadmapping that integrates with Jira and Tempo’s time management suite
- Companies whose product strategy communication to executives, board, and customers requires polished visual roadmaps rather than slide decks
Not for
- Teams who want customer feedback collection connected to roadmap prioritisation end-to-end (Productboard handles this better)
- Engineering teams whose primary need is sprint tracking and issue management
- Very small teams where a simple Notion board covers roadmap needs adequately
Rating
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.2 / 5
What Is Tempo Roadmaps?
Tempo Roadmaps is the roadmapping product within Tempo Software’s planning suite — built on the Roadmunk platform that Tempo acquired in 2021. It provides multiple roadmap view types — timeline roadmaps showing features by date, swimlane roadmaps organising features by team or product area, and portfolio roadmaps showing multiple product lines together. Each view is generated from the same underlying feature data, ensuring consistency across all roadmap presentations without maintaining separate versions.
Its AI features generate initial roadmap structures from product descriptions and suggest feature prioritisation based on strategic inputs. Its sharing features allow roadmaps to be published as read-only links with different visibility levels — sharing the customer-facing roadmap without exposing internal timeline details or unannounced features.
As part of the Tempo ecosystem, Tempo Roadmaps connects to Tempo’s time tracking and capacity planning tools — enabling product leaders to build roadmaps informed by real team capacity data rather than optimistic estimates.
How Tempo Roadmaps Works
- Create your roadmap items. Add features, epics, and initiatives as roadmap items with dates, assignees, status, and custom fields.
- Use AI to generate structure. Describe your product and strategic priorities and the AI generates an initial roadmap structure with typical feature categories and timeline estimates as a starting point.
- Choose your view. Switch between timeline, swimlane, and portfolio views — each presenting the same data in the most appropriate format for the context.
- Customise the visual. Adjust colours, groupings, filters, and labels to create a roadmap presentation matching your product’s structure.
- Share with stakeholders. Create shareable links for different audiences — internal links showing all details, customer-facing links showing only committed features, board-level links showing strategic themes.
- Connect to Tempo planning. Link roadmap items to Tempo’s time tracking and capacity data for roadmaps grounded in real team availability.
Key Features
- Timeline roadmap view showing features on a date-based horizontal layout
- Swimlane roadmap view organising features by team, product area, or status
- Portfolio roadmap view showing multiple product lines together
- AI roadmap generation from product descriptions
- AI feature prioritisation suggestions based on strategic inputs
- Stakeholder sharing with granular visibility controls per link
- Customer feedback collection linked to roadmap items
- Jira integration for two-way sync with engineering execution
- Tempo suite integration for capacity-informed roadmapping
- Export to PowerPoint, PDF, and image formats for presentations
Real-World Use Cases
- Quarterly planning: A product director builds the quarterly roadmap in a timeline view for the product team and a swimlane view organised by customer segment for the executive presentation — both from the same data without duplicating work.
- Customer roadmap sharing: A SaaS company shares a Tempo Roadmaps public link with customers showing only committed and in-progress features — communicating transparency about product direction without revealing internal planning.
- Capacity-informed roadmapping: A product team connects Tempo Roadmaps to Tempo’s time tracking data — building a roadmap that reflects actual team capacity rather than optimistic estimates, reducing the gap between planned and delivered features.
- Jira-connected roadmap: An engineering organisation uses Jira for sprint execution and Tempo Roadmaps for strategic visualisation — with two-way sync keeping the roadmap aligned with actual engineering progress automatically.
Pros and Cons
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| Multiple view types from one dataset eliminate maintaining separate roadmap versions | Less comprehensive product management depth than Productboard end-to-end |
| Granular sharing controls allow different audiences to see appropriate detail | Roadmunk brand transition means some legacy tutorials reference the old UI |
| Jira and Tempo suite integration connects roadmaps to execution and capacity data | Free plan limited to one roadmap and basic features |
| AI roadmap generation reduces blank canvas problem for new planning cycles | Interface less modern than some newer standalone roadmap tools |
| Export to PowerPoint and PDF integrates with existing presentation workflows | Pricing increases with team size on higher plans |
Pricing & Plans
Tempo Roadmaps pricing is available at tempo.io and is structured around user count with plans covering individual product managers through enterprise teams. It is available as a standalone roadmapping product and as part of the broader Tempo suite.
Visit tempo.io/products/roadmaps for current pricing.
Best Alternatives & Comparisons
- Productboard — Better for end-to-end product management connecting customer insights to roadmap, more comprehensive
- Aha! — Better for comprehensive product strategy with goals and initiatives alongside roadmapping
- Linear — Better for engineering execution tracking alongside roadmap views
- ClickUp — Better for all-in-one project management with roadmap views alongside tasks and docs
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Tempo Roadmaps, formerly Roadmunk, is an AI-powered product roadmap platform providing timeline and swimlane visualisation, stakeholder sharing with granular permission controls, and AI-assisted roadmap generation — now part of Tempo Software’s integrated planning suite.
Roadmunk was acquired by Tempo Software in 2021. The product continues as Tempo Roadmaps at tempo.io/products/roadmaps, with roadmunk.com redirecting to the new location. Existing Roadmunk customers and new users access the product through the Tempo platform.
Yes, Tempo Roadmaps has a Jira integration providing two-way sync between strategic roadmap items and Jira engineering execution — keeping the roadmap aligned with actual development progress.
Tempo Roadmaps AI generates initial roadmap structures from product descriptions — providing a framework of typical feature themes and timeline estimates as a starting point — and suggests feature prioritisation based on strategic inputs provided.
Tempo Roadmaps specialises in roadmap visualisation and stakeholder communication. Productboard provides end-to-end product management connecting customer insights to roadmap priorities. Tempo Roadmaps is better for teams whose primary need is powerful visual roadmap communication; Productboard for the full insight-to-roadmap workflow.
Yes, Tempo Roadmaps is part of Tempo Software’s planning suite alongside Tempo Timesheets and other capacity and resource planning tools — enabling roadmaps informed by real team time and capacity data when the full suite is used together.
Final Recommendation
Tempo Roadmaps — the product formerly known as Roadmunk — remains one of the strongest dedicated roadmap visualisation tools available for product managers who need powerful stakeholder communication capability that general project management tools do not provide. The multiple view types, granular sharing controls, Jira integration, and AI-assisted planning reduce the time spent on roadmap creation and maintenance. For product teams in the Atlassian and Tempo ecosystem especially, the integration with time and capacity data makes it a particularly practical choice for building roadmaps that reflect reality rather than aspiration.
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