[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":143},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-\u002Fblog\u002Fa-roadmap-you-can-drag":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"cover":128,"description":13,"draft":129,"extension":130,"meta":131,"navigation":132,"path":133,"publishedAt":134,"seo":135,"stem":136,"summary":137,"tags":138,"updatedAt":141,"__hash__":142},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fa-roadmap-you-can-drag.md","Engineering Roadmap Tool: Plan by Project, Not by Task","Veflow team",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":119},"minimark",[10,14,19,22,66,69,79,83,90,93,96,100,103,107],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Most engineering roadmap tools treat the roadmap as a report: a read-only artifact generated from data you edit somewhere else. Veflow's roadmap is the opposite — it's a live timeline you plan directly on, by dragging project bars rather than filling in forms.",[15,16,18],"h2",{"id":17},"what-it-is","What it is",[11,20,21],{},"Every project with dates appears as a bar in its own lane on a timeline. The interactions are the ones your hands expect:",[23,24,25,37,43,49,60],"ul",{},[26,27,28,32,33,36],"li",{},[29,30,31],"strong",{},"Drag a bar"," to move the whole project. ",[29,34,35],{},"Drag either edge"," to pull the start or end date in or out.",[26,38,39,42],{},[29,40,41],{},"Ctrl+scroll to zoom",", from a dense quarter-at-a-glance down to day-level detail.",[26,44,45,48],{},[29,46,47],{},"Drag empty space to pan."," The timeline extends itself as you approach the edge — there's no \"end\" of the view, the horizon just keeps growing.",[26,50,51,52,55,56,59],{},"A ",[29,53,54],{},"today line"," runs down the whole view, and any project whose dates straddle it gets an ",[29,57,58],{},"Active"," highlight — what's in flight right now is visually obvious from across the room.",[26,61,62,65],{},[29,63,64],{},"Click a project's name"," to jump into it.",[11,67,68],{},"Your zoom level, row height, and team filters persist between visits, so the roadmap opens the way you left it.",[70,71,76],"media",{"aspect":72,"hint":73,"kind":74,"src":75},"aspect-[16\u002F10]","Roadmap by project: MVP, v1.0, and v2.0 bars on a month timeline, today line marked, an Active pill on the in-flight project","Screenshot","\u002Flanding\u002Froadmap.png",[11,77,78],{},"Resizing a project is a drag, not a form.",[15,80,82],{"id":81},"why-this-roadmap-tool-skips-task-level-gantt-charts","Why this roadmap tool skips task-level Gantt charts",[11,84,85,86,89],{},"The roadmap plots ",[29,87,88],{},"projects, not tasks",". That's a choice, not a gap.",[11,91,92],{},"Task-level Gantt charts have a long history of becoming fiction: hundreds of bars, dependencies nobody maintains, dates that stopped being true the week after they were drawn. The failure mode is so common it has a smell — the chart that everyone updates before the planning meeting and ignores after it.",[11,94,95],{},"Projects are the altitude where timeline planning is honest. A team can genuinely commit to \"search ships in the back half of June.\" It cannot genuinely commit to which Tuesday a specific task lands — especially when agents are doing the writing and a task's wall-clock time is measured in minutes of review, not days of work. The tasks live on the board; the roadmap stays at the level where dates mean something.",[15,97,99],{"id":98},"filtered-by-team","Filtered by team",[11,101,102],{},"The roadmap filters by team, so \"what is Platform doing this quarter?\" is one chip-click. Projects that span several teams show up for each of them — cross-cutting work doesn't fall in the gap between lanes.",[15,104,106],{"id":105},"plan-a-quarter-then-go-to-work","Plan a quarter, then go to work",[11,108,109,110,114,115,118],{},"The loop we built it for: zoom out, sequence the quarter by dragging bars until it stops looking like a lie, then click into whichever project is Active and start writing tasks. The roadmap is where you decide ",[111,112,113],"em",{},"when","; the tasks and the agents are where the ",[111,116,117],{},"what"," gets done.",{"title":120,"searchDepth":121,"depth":121,"links":122},"",3,[123,125,126,127],{"id":17,"depth":124,"text":18},2,{"id":81,"depth":124,"text":82},{"id":98,"depth":124,"text":99},{"id":105,"depth":124,"text":106},"\u002Fblog\u002Fa-roadmap-you-can-drag.png",false,"md",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fa-roadmap-you-can-drag","2026-07-01",{"title":5,"description":13},"blog\u002Fa-roadmap-you-can-drag","Veflow's engineering roadmap tool is a draggable, zoomable Gantt of projects — not tasks. Plan quarters honestly and jump straight into the work.",[139,140],"product","feature",null,"LMn6zKNk8Lkb6i9HGpOGygNb8Y0mPO9Ktu-81_m-Xmo",1785474880729]