I work at a start up and aside from using tools such as Jira, confluence, figma, and lucid chart I find myself still using PowerPoint a lot of the time. It’s probably the ex consultant in me but is that strange?

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Using it for communication or something else? I do the same bc it’s the best for storytelling imo, but not for a lot of other things

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Is it just me - or is there nothing decent for working on and visualizing a product road map. Like starting top-down and through the cascade: product vision, strategic priorities, themes, epics, stories.

We use Jira to manage sprints, showing epics and stories. But haven’t found anything good for the layers above that - ie strategy and road map.

Anybody seen anything?

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Productboard too

I mostly use it to make simple functional flows because it helps me put my thought on something else than paper or a whiteboard when working remotely. And I’m much faster at using it than other tools.

Also storytelling ^^

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Have you tried Miro?

What is everyone using for their work?

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We use primarily narrative docs to convey our work. They’re not too lengthy, but they get into the necessary detail to convey what we are trying to achieve.

PowerPoint for storytelling...

Aha, Jira, Confluence to organize and manage work

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It’s honest just one of the fastest for pen to paper. Not necessarily the best but gets the job done quick.

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Im a big fan of Box Notes- plain and simple. Ppt’s get the job done when communicating to other internal teams or sales/customer decks.

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I have been using Miro a lot in part because it allows me to have my traditional notes and presentations but it also is interactive when leading workshops. Plus I have it hooked up to jira and it exports notes as tickets

I like Visio a lot in terms of "making my own"
I think it's more robust than PPT.
In terms of sprint planning/tracking. I think VersionOne is more robust than Jira. But that's just from my experience in using VersionOne a lot more.

If it doesn’t fit in a spreadsheet matrix yo no comprendo 😎

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