Product
The application, platform or project you manage. Products can be linked one way, like a car that depends on its wheels.
Features
Six building blocks. Every angle.
Same shape, same thing: every building block looks the same in the map, the matrix, the timeline and the 3D cube.
Invoicing
Feature
What the product does for its users. Groups requirements. Flat: no features inside features.
Requirement
What must be true for a feature to be complete. Part of exactly one feature, built in one or more modules, with its own status.
Backend
Module
How the product is built. A feature linked to a module directly, or through its requirements, shows both.
Invoicing v2
Release
A goal with a desired date. Delivers features, requirements and modules, one requirement at a time if you like, and can depend on other releases.
3.2
Version
The product version a release ships as, plus the version of every module. Unchanged modules keep their version.
Specification
Not a building block but a linked document: the detailed spec behind a feature or a requirement, kept where your team writes it, in Confluence, Notion, Google Docs or Figma. VPM keeps the link and, if you want, the release it applies to.
Views
Look from the front, the top or the side.
- Product map
- The home screen: features and modules as regions, zoomable from product to requirement.
- Feature × module matrix
- Click a cell to link or unlink. Direct links are solid, inherited links dotted.
- Feature roadmap
- The top of the cube: when does each feature move, and which of its requirements ship when?
- Module roadmap with versions
- The side of the cube: what changes in each module, and as which version.
- Roadmap timeline
- Target versus actual dates, dependencies as arrows, lanes for undated work.
- 3D product cube
- Orbit, pan and zoom through the whole product. Click to select, double-click to fly to it.
Principles
Manager altitude
No tasks, tickets or sprints. Those stay in the tools your teams already use.
Visual first
Every screen starts as a picture you can filter, focus and edit in place.
Inform, never plan
Warnings about dates and dependencies, stated as facts. Your plan stays yours.
Nothing is lost
Deleting is reversible. The history of what was planned, cancelled or delivered stays.