How to Create a Product Roadmap Presentation in PowerPoint?

A product roadmap is an impressive way to illustrate the timeline and milestones of your product launch. Making a product roadmap presentation in PowerPoint may seem complicated. With the right tools and templates, you can easily get the desired level of illustration with other aspects like content, visuals, and images.

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What is a Product Roadmap Presentation?

A product roadmap presentation is a visual, strategic communication tool that shares a product’s vision, direction, and progress over time with various audiences, including the development team, stakeholders, and customers.

Making a to-do list is not a product roadmap presentation. The prime purpose of a roadmap presentation for a product is to showcase how different phases of the process align with the final goal.

Every slide helps users understand how the steps lead to final results and how stakeholders contribute to the product launch.

Making a Product Roadmap Presentation in PowerPoint

In this article, we won’t discuss the use of templates to make these types of presentations. Our focus will be on making roadmap presentations from scratch in PowerPoint.

For the ease of the reader, we will help you understand how to create a product roadmap presentation in PowerPoint. Depending on the product details, users can add further steps and stages to the presentation.

Step 1: Start a Blank PowerPoint Presentation

Open the PowerPoint software and start a blank/new presentation. We will start from scratch, so new users can easily understand the whole process of creating a product roadmap presentation in PowerPoint.

Step 2: Insert SmartArt

PowerPoint has some amazing built-in tools and features that can help you speed up the process of making a product roadmap. Go to the Insert tab in the top ribbon and then click SmartArt.  

Step 3: Add SmartArt from the Process Category

In the SmartArt window, click Process from the left tab and then choose any process SmartArt that you want to use for your product roadmap presentation. Click Ok to add that visual to your slide.

Step 4: Edit Product Roadmap

Go to your slide and click the roadmap SmartArt. You can directly add text to the boxes or use the text editor on the left to add each step. This is what a general product roadmap may look like.

Step 5: Optimize Roadmap

If you want to make further changes to the design or other elements of the SmartArt roadmap, select the roadmap from the slide and then click the SmartArt Design tab from the top ribbon.

How to Change Roadmap Color in PowerPoint?

As you can see, all boxes of the roadmap are using the same color. This color may not align with your brand identity or overall theme of the presentation.

If you want to change the color of the product roadmap in PowerPoint, select the roadmap >> SmartArt Design >> Change Color >> Select the color scheme that you like.

How to Write Content for a Product Roadmap Presentation?

Once you have created the roadmap slide in PowerPoint, you still need to take care of other aspects of the presentation. The next steps will take just a few seconds. How is it possible to write content and create an entire presentation in a few seconds?

For the next step, we will use Twistly for PowerPoint presentations. Twistly is an AI add-in that works inside PowerPoint and can generate a complete presentation with no manual editing or designing.

Follow these steps to create the rest of the product roadmap presentation in PowerPoint with Twistly.

Step 1: Launch Twistly and Create PPT

With your presentation open, click the Twistly icon in the top right corner, and a new pane will appear with different controls. Click the ” Create from Topic button as shown in the image.

Review the slide outline and make changes if necessary. You can rearrange, delete, or add slides.

Step 2: Select Presentation Template  

Twistly has different AI PowerPoint templates that you can use. Select the template and then choose any other settings, or let the AI decide the best pick for the presentation.

Step 3: Review or Edit the Slide

Within a few seconds, your presentation will be ready. Rearrange the slides, edit them using AI features of Twistly or PowerPoint tools.

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Conclusion

The easiest way to create a product roadmap in PowerPoint is to use Process visuals from the SmartArt tab and then modify them. The other steps of the presentation can be completed easily with the use of Twistly for PowerPoint.