Linear Roadmap: How to Build & Share One in 2026

A Linear roadmap helps your team understand what you're building, when projects are expected to happen, and how that work connects to larger company goals.

One terminology change matters before we start:

Linear replaced its old Roadmaps feature with Initiatives. Today, teams generally use Initiatives for strategic planning, Projects for execution, and Timeline for roadmap visualization.

If you're searching for “Linear roadmap,” you're still in the right place. This guide explains the current workflow and how to turn selected Linear work into a roadmap customers can follow.

What is a Linear roadmap?

A Linear roadmap today is really a combination of several Linear features:

Feature	Purpose
Initiatives	Group projects around larger strategic objectives
Projects	Organize defined bodies of product or engineering work
Timeline	Visualize projects chronologically
Issues	Track the individual implementation tasks

A simple mental model is:

Initiative → Projects → Issues

Timeline then gives you the chronological roadmap view.

How to create a roadmap in Linear

1. Create meaningful Projects

Start with projects representing meaningful outcomes rather than collections of unrelated tasks.

For example:

Good: Enterprise onboarding redesign

Bad: Various Q3 work

2. Add start and target dates

Set realistic planning dates so Linear can position projects chronologically.

3. Open Timeline

Open your Projects view, select Display, then switch to Timeline.

4. Add milestones

Use milestones to mark important stages such as:

• Design complete
• Internal alpha
• Beta
• Public release

5. Add project dependencies

Represent sequencing where one project depends on another.

6. Group projects under Initiatives

When several projects contribute toward the same strategic goal, group them under an Initiative.

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Can you make a Linear roadmap public?

Linear is primarily designed for people working inside a Linear workspace.

That works extremely well for product and engineering teams.

It's less convenient when your audience becomes:

• customers
• clients
• prospects
• community members
• external stakeholders

Giving every customer access to your internal project tracker also exposes far more implementation detail than most customers need.

A better model is often:

Linear = internal source of truth

Customer roadmap = selected external view

How to share a Linear roadmap with customers

You have a few options.

Screenshots

Fast and free, but immediately outdated.

Docs or spreadsheets

More flexible, but someone has to keep them synchronized manually.

Give customers Linear access

Reasonable for a small number of close collaborators, but not ideal for a public roadmap or large customer base.

Connect Linear to a customer-facing roadmap

This keeps Linear as the place your team works while giving customers a separate interface.

With Feedvote, the workflow becomes:

Customer feedback → Feedvote → Linear → Feedvote → Customer

Your team decides which work becomes customer-visible instead of exposing the entire workspace.

How Feedvote works with Linear

Choose what enters Feedvote

Select the relevant Linear issues, projects, teams, and labels.

Newly imported work can remain private while your team reviews it.

Choose what customers can see

Publish work publicly or make selected items visible only to specific customers.

Map internal statuses to customer-friendly stages

Your internal Linear workflow might contain:

Backlog → Ready → Development → QA → Release

Customers may only need:

Planned → In Progress → Shipped

Collect feedback before creating engineering work

Customers can submit requests through Feedvote.

Your team reviews them before deciding whether they should become Linear work.

Close the feedback loop

The most important part isn't simply collecting requests.

It's what happens afterward.

Customer requests feature
↓
Team reviews it
↓
Approved work goes into Linear
↓
Engineering builds it
↓
Status updates flow back to Feedvote
↓
Customer sees progress
↓
Feature ships

That is the real advantage of keeping customer feedback connected to the work being delivered.

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Optional: show the changelog

If you want one additional image here, use:

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Caption:
Shipped Linear work can become customer-facing release communication through Feedvote.

But I would consider this image optional.

Five screenshots is already enough for this article.

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Linear vs customer-facing roadmap

	Linear	Feedvote
Main audience	Product & engineering	Customers & clients
Project planning	✅ Excellent	Not the purpose
Engineering issues	✅	Selected only
Public roadmap	❌ Not its primary model	✅
Private customer views	Workspace access	✅
Feedback & voting	Internal customer-request workflows	✅ Customer-facing
Customer-friendly statuses	Internal workflow	✅
Linear execution	✅	Synced

Linear remains the source of truth.

Feedvote handles the customer-facing side.

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When you don't need Feedvote

If your roadmap is entirely internal and only your employees need access, just use Linear.

You don't need another tool.

Feedvote becomes useful when you want people outside your Linear workspace to:

• see selected roadmap work
• submit requests
• vote
• follow progress
• receive updates

That's the distinction.

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Keep Linear internal. Make the roadmap customer-facing.

Plan and execute in Linear.

Then publish only the work your customers actually need to see.

Feedvote connects customer feedback, selected Linear issues and Projects, roadmap progress, and product updates without forcing customers into your internal workspace.

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