5 reasons planning leaders will love the new Structure and Strategic Roadmaps integration
Tempo Team
Let’s face it – senior leadership won’t use Jira, no matter how much you try. Which means that, for now, you’re stuck pasting screenshots into PowerPoint for every weekly report. Sound familiar?
It doesn’t have to be this way. With the new Structure and Strategic Roadmaps integration, you can generate accurate, high-level reports in minutes. By combining Structure’s project data rollups and powerful formulas with Strategic Roadmaps’ visualization, you gain big-picture insights without sacrificing detail. This integration keeps you in control with up-to-date summaries and clear visibility at every critical level, helping you convey complex project information in a format that leadership can quickly understand.
Let’s dive into five ways this integration helps solve your toughest planning challenges.
1. Align strategy to execution
Connecting long-term strategy to daily execution is essential for effective portfolio management. Structure and Roadmaps brings your vision down to the project level, ensuring that every task and team effort is aligned with your strategic objectives.
With this integration, you’re no longer working in silos – Structure and Roadmaps translates your work into a big-picture, actionable roadmap.
How it works: When you create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in Structure, you’re detailing every level of your portfolio’s hierarchy. Roadmaps then takes this hierarchy and translates it into a high-level view, using swimlanes or timelines to illustrate task progress and team involvement. This alignment means all work is organized, visible, and in sync with your goals.
By bridging strategy and execution, this integration ensures that everyone on your team understands how their work supports organizational goals, creating a cohesive, unified direction.
2. Simplified reporting for streamlined insights
Manual reporting can drain time and resources, especially when gathering data from multiple sources. Structure and Roadmaps simplifies this by automatically turning Structure data into a clear, shareable roadmap in Roadmaps.
With data flowing seamlessly from Structure to Roadmaps reporting becomes as simple as a click, giving you and your team access to accurate, actionable insights.
How it works: In Structure, you can manage intricate project details and capture real-time status updates. With a single click, this data flows into Roadmaps, where it’s displayed in a comprehensive view you can share with stakeholders. The integration removes the need for redundant updates and provides your teams with consistent, current information they can rely on.
By streamlining reporting into a quick, automated process, you’ll save valuable time while providing leadership with a clear, up-to-date picture of progress – without spending hours on manual updates.
3. Full portfolio visibility
For leaders managing multiple projects, Structure’s multi-level WBS provides an in-depth view of each project’s details. Strategic Roadmaps then takes these details and translates them into a portfolio-level view, giving you clarity across all your projects. This combination is perfect for seeing the big picture without losing the essential details that drive success.
How it works: Structure’s custom hierarchies break down complex projects, while Roadmaps turns these into a clear roadmap. By visually mapping out each team’s progress and key milestones across projects, you get a high-level view of your portfolio, with details available at every level. This ensures a shared understanding of progress and helps keep all teams aligned.
Full visibility over your portfolio means you can confidently oversee multiple projects, track dependencies, and make sure each project aligns with your broader strategic goals.
4. Smarter decision-making with data-driven prioritization
Structure and Roadmaps empowers leaders to make smarter, data-informed decisions. By centralizing your resource allocation, budget, and timelines, the integration enables prioritization across projects based on current data.
Whether you’re reallocating resources or adjusting timelines, this integration ensures every decision aligns with your goals and adapts to evolving priorities.
How it works: With the Structure and Roadmaps integration, any update you make in Structure is synced hourly in Roadmaps. This means if you adjust a project’s timeline, Roadmaps regularly reflects that change, providing a cohesive view of your portfolio. This responsiveness helps keep every team aligned with updated priorities and ensures resource planning is always optimized.
Access to data-driven insights lets you confidently prioritize high-impact projects, optimize resource allocation, and stay agile in response to shifting organizational needs.
5. Operational efficiency and cross-team collaboration
Collaboration is key in any organization, and Structure and Roadmaps fosters efficient teamwork across departments. With updated information continuously flowing from Structure to Roadmaps, every department works from the same plan, ensuring shared goals and clear communication. By keeping the entire team aligned on strategic priorities, this integration drives faster, more unified action.
How it works: Structure allows teams to manage data across projects, while Roadmaps makes this information easily shareable and accessible to stakeholders through a single, visual roadmap. Teams can leave comments, track updates, and collaborate directly in Roadmaps, creating a unified planning experience that keeps everyone in sync on projects moving forward.
Streamlined cross-team collaboration means fewer miscommunications, stronger alignment on goals, and a more efficient workflow that maintains momentum and avoids project bottlenecks.
Ready to see Structure and Roadmaps in action?
The Structure and Strategic Roadmaps integration is available now, with Structure cloud customers able to build a roadmap from an existing Structure. New customers can experience the benefits first-hand by downloading a free trial of Strategic Roadmaps or Structure today.
Want to see the integration in action? Book a demo or watch the webinar here.
