Planning & Estimation

Project Swimlanes

A simple Swimlane diagram to visualise parallel streams of work.

For software teams looking to streamline their project management, the Project Swimlanes template offers a visually engaging and easy to create solution. It helps teams collaboratively create and manage project timelines across multiple workstreams.

The template is hosted in Metro Retroโ€™s online whiteboard, and everything is customisable and collaborative, so thereโ€™s no excuse for the whole team to get involved with planning.

Getting Started

To start using the Project Swimlanes template:

  1. Set Up Swimlanes: Create swimlanes for each workstream involved in your project.
  2. Add Date Markers: Mark the timeline with relevant dates to provide temporal context.
  3. Populate Tasks and Milestones: Add tasks, milestones, and dependencies, using annotations and color coding to enhance clarity.
  4. Collaborate and Iterate: Invite team members to collaborate, update, and refine the timeline as the project progresses.

Metro Retro is full of great templates to help make your meetings more efficient and fun. 

Planning & Estimation

Now โ€“ Next โ€“ Later Roadmap

The Now Next Later roadmap is a lean method of planning the initiatives that a product team wants to work on.
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T-shirt sizing

The T-shirt sizing template gets the team to use playing cards to estimate future work items, from XS up to XL.
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Planning Poker

In Planning Poker, the team use playing cards to help them estimate upcoming stories. Suitable for teams not integrated with Jira

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