Organizing with sections

Sections are the organizing pillars of your roadmap. They group initiatives by product area, theme, or strategic objective.

What sections are for

Examples:

• By product area: Mobile / Core / Growth / Infrastructure
• By theme: Customer Experience / Reliability / Monetization / Compliance
• By time horizon: Now / Next / Later (for "Now/Next/Later" roadmaps)

Pick one organizing principle and stick with it. Mixing dimensions (e.g., some sections by area, others by theme) makes the roadmap harder to read.

Add a section

1. In the Roadmap module, click + Add Section at the bottom
2. Enter a name
3. Optional: choose a color (used as the section header background)
4. Save

You can add unlimited sections on Standard/Pro tiers; the Free tier supports up to 3.

Reorder sections

Drag the section header up or down. The order persists across all views (Gantt, Kanban, etc.).

The killer feature: sort without losing structure

In most roadmap tools, sorting by priority or owner breaks your section structure. In Roadmap OS, sections survive sorting.

When you sort by priority:

• Within each section, initiatives reorder by priority
• The section structure remains intact
• You see "the most important thing in Mobile, then the most important thing in Core, then…"

This is the difference between a roadmap that's readable and one that isn't. Other tools force you to choose: useful structure OR useful sorting. Roadmap OS gives you both.

Section-level rollups

Each section header shows:

• Total initiative count
• Status distribution (X Strategy, Y In Progress, Z Released)
• Capacity allocation across the section (Pro tier)

Renaming or deleting sections

• Rename: click the section header → edit
• Delete: ⋮ menu on the section → Delete. Initiatives inside the section move to "Unsectioned" — they're not deleted.

Best practices

• Cap at 3-5 sections. More than that and the roadmap becomes hard to scan.
• Don't reorganize sections quarterly. Section structure should be stable for at least a year.
• If you find yourself wanting to nest sections (Mobile → iOS → Onboarding), reconsider — Roadmap OS uses flat sections by design.

Next steps

• The 5 statuses
• Sorting and filtering