Introducing Collaborative Docs

Empower Team Collaboration from Strategy to Execution

At Productboard, we’re excited to unveil Collaborative Docs—a powerful new tool designed to streamline your product management process from strategy to execution. Collaborative Docs serves as a single source of truth for all things product, bringing together product teams and cross-functional stakeholders in a unified space where critical documents are created, managed, and shared.

Unlike traditional document editors like Confluence or Notion, Collaborative Docs is seamlessly integrated into the entire Productboard ecosystem. This integration allows for real-time collaboration, enabling you to tag teammates, embed key Productboard entities like features and insights, and maintain all your product information in one place. By bridging the gap between strategy development, planning, and execution, Docs ensures that everyone stays informed and aligned throughout the product development lifecycle.

How Collaborative Docs Transforms Your Product Management Process

Product Strategy

Docs revolutionizes how you craft, articulate, and share your product strategy by providing a central place to weave together your company’s overarching narrative with structured objectives and initiatives. For the first time, product leaders can paint the big picture of their long-term vision while seamlessly connecting it to specific goals and action plans. This bridges the long-standing gap between high-level strategy and day-to-day execution, ensuring every team member understands not just what the strategic direction is, but why it matters—and how their work contributes to it.

By centralizing all strategy-related documentation in one accessible location, Docs eliminates the need to juggle multiple tools or platforms. It enables the creation of living strategy documents that dynamically link to specific objectives and initiatives, automatically reflecting the latest information as these elements evolve. This holistic approach fosters organization-wide alignment, driving collective action towards common goals and ensuring that every product decision is made with full context and strategic intent.

Product Discovery

Manage the product discovery process more effectively by documenting ideas, insights, and customer feedback in one accessible place. Tag and mention customer insights directly within your discovery documents to ensure their needs and feedback are always top of mind. This centralized approach allows your team to easily revisit customer inputs and insights, driving better product decisions.

Release Notes

Craft comprehensive release notes that outline new roadmap milestones and feature updates. By keeping these documents within Productboard, you ensure all stakeholders have immediate access to the latest updates, helping them stay informed about the product’s evolution and new capabilities.

Post-Release Evaluation

Evaluate product performance post-release with a structured approach. Docs allows you to document and analyze objectives, key results, and analytics in a single, cohesive place. Embed qualitative feedback to gain deeper insights into user experiences, ensuring that evaluations are thorough and accessible. This helps your team learn from each release and refine future strategies.

Product Launches

Plan and execute product launches seamlessly. Create detailed timelines, checklists, and messaging strategies, pulling in insights from across Productboard to ensure alignment with user expectations. This comprehensive documentation aids in coordinating launch activities, ensuring every team is synchronized for a successful launch.

Additional Use Cases: Extend the Power of Collaborative Docs

• Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) & Progress Reports: Track delivery and discovery progress to maintain transparency and accountability.
• Feature Requirements: Define the products you want to ship with clarity and precision.
• Roadmap Overviews: Offer stakeholders a clear view of where the product is headed.
• Persona Management: Create, update, and share comprehensive user personas to inform product decisions and maintain customer focus throughout the development process.
• Process Documentation: Guide product management teams through established processes within Productboard.
• Internal Product Documentation: Educate users on how to navigate and utilize the Productboard product hierarchy.

 

“Collaborative Docs has great potential to centralize our product information. Currently, we rely heavily on SharePoint and Confluence, but having everything in one spot within Productboard adds significant value. If our entire team knows they can find what they need in Productboard, it becomes a powerful tool.”

– Principal Product Manager at a leading GIS software company

Getting Started with Collaborative Docs

Collaborative Docs is now available to all customers as part of the new Productboard experience. To take full advantage of Docs, opt-in today by reaching out to your customer success representative. Other new capabilities designed to help you drive full alignment and run effective teams at scale include:

• Streamlined strategic planning: Easily connect your work to business outcomes with objectives, initiatives, and key results.
• Dynamic layouts: Explore redesigned views with enhanced grouping and filtering, customizable for every need.
• Roadmaps in minutes: Get running faster with pre-built templates. Instantly switch between grid, timeline, and column views.

View the release details to learn more.