The Roadmap allows you to score posts to decide what to work on next. This approach is data-driven and based on the RICE prioritization method.

This guide covers:

To access Roadmap Prioritization in Canny, head to the Roadmap tab in your admin view:

From there, click on the Score button in the settings to get started:

This is where you'll be able to:

We've created your first Roadmap for you. Teams often have their own goals. Using separate Roadmaps means you can prioritize accordingly.

We recommend creating separate Roadmaps per team to keep things organized. For agile teams, you may also choose to have separate Roadmaps per sprint so you can start with a clean slate each time.

We've written a blog post about how the Canny team prioritizes.

The first thing you'll want to do is add posts to your roadmap.

On the right side of any post, you can send it to select roadmaps.

In the roadmap view, the last row says "Add new post". By default, Canny will prompt you to create a new post in the select board. Alternatively, you can choose an existing post.

Just like creating a new post from the feedback view, you can do so from the roadmap view.

To export a roadmap to csv (spreadsheet file), just select the posts you'd like to export and you'll see a menu appear at the bottom of the page:

You also have the option to share a roadmap instead.

On the left-hand side of the roadmap, you'll see the option to select checkboxes to take action across multiple posts at once The actions include:

Canny allows you to create a custom-filtered view of your roadmap so you can disregard any scoring columns that are not relevant to you.

You can save this as a view to easily switch between different views:

You can manage saved views from the Saved Filters page in the Canny settings.

You can share a roadmap by filtering it into a view (see above). Any saved view of the roadmap can be shared as a read-only link.

Each post's score is determined by the Factors involved and the weight assigned to each. Factors can be anything your team wants to weigh into prioritization. For example: impact, reach, potential revenue, etc.

Every Roadmap can have its own factors and weights. To modify a roadmap's scoring, click on the Score button at the top of the page.

You'll be presented with this scoring modal where you can add new impact factors:

By default, you'll see a Votes impact factor. This factor cannot be deleted. If you would like to exclude votes from the final score, you can set the weight of the Votes factor to 0.

You can manually create a field for "impact" and score it, or you can include fields that are automatically updated.

For example:

Anything with numeric values can be factored in (including custom fields). This is a huge benefit over spreadsheets where values are constantly going stale. With these fields, you can be more confident in the impact different features can have.

Once again, to add these new fields to your prioritization, head to your admin roadmap tab and click the Score button:

Factor types will be specified upon creation and cannot be modified after the formula is saved. The weight of each factor can be adjusted at any time.

You can view a detailed breakdown of the math behind the final score here.

Let us know if you have any questions!