Thank you, Alica Verran!

Jose, thanks for your feedback on the limitations of the Microsoft Project Roadmap feature!

Earlier I set up an example roadmap with tasks linked from a project in Project for the Web, and the tasks showed up in the Roadmap as bars with fixed duration. Returning after some time, I now see the roadmap items have all spontaneously changed to “Key Date” items instead of bars with fixed duration. They are now just pins instead of bars. Now there is no way to get the bars back. The items in the Roadmap are totally disconnected from the tasks in the Project, and there is no way to link them back in any way. It would be extremely frustrating to have spent a lot of time creating a real roadmap only to see the whole thing ruined in this way.

Also, you mention: “A new command in the ribbon Tasks enables you to add published elements from Project Online as bars to the roadmap.” There is no such command in Project for the Web.

In conclusion, the Roadmap app is completely useless. It has almost zero functionality, and doesn’t do any work for you. I would like to use this app because I am using Project for the Web, but now I am forced to design my roadmap in some other vendor’s tool.

Also missing is a feature to group elements in the roadmap into categories. A team often has multiple different areas of work in their roadmap, e.g. “Performance Improvements”, “Innovation Features”, etc.. There is no way to group projects together this way, so the roadmap looks a bit flat and uninteresting.