Next Level Gantt: Your Roadmap Planning Solution for Azure DevOps

Take your project management to the next level with Next Level Gantt the cutting-edge tool designed to build dynamic, visual gantt-style roadmaps across multiple projects and teams within Azure DevOps. Whether you're a project manager, program manager, scrum master, or executive, Next Level Gantt provides a powerful and intuitive solution, fully integrated with Azure DevOps.

Discover powerful insights with fully customizable Gantt charts featuring expanded roadmap views.

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Why Choose Next Level Gantt?

• Ultimate Flexibility: Tailor your roadmaps to match your project’s unique workflow and management style.
• Unmatched Visibility: Gain comprehensive oversight across all project levels, with detailed, expandable views of every phase.
• Effortless Efficiency: Simplify your planning and management processes with features designed to give you complete control over your projects.

Features

Query-Based Roadmap (Early Access Program)

We are excited to announce a new feature as an early access feature - Query-Based Roadmaps! Whether you're using complex tree queries for Epics and related open Tasks, or flat lists for high-priority bugs—your roadmap updates itself automatically, reflecting the latest data.

• Automatic Sync with Azure DevOps: Your roadmap updates live from your queries—no more manual refreshes.
• Flexible and Powerful Filtering: Supports any query structure, including nested conditions, multiple item types, and more.
• Cross-Project Visibility: Bring in queries from multiple projects. Work items stay neatly grouped by query, providing clarity and organization.

If you would like early access to the new query-based roadmaps feature drop us a line. We'd love for you to try it out.

New 'Query-Based Roadmaps' screen loading flat queries, tree queries and direct link queries

Azure DevOps Integration

Next Level Gantt integrates effortlessly with Azure DevOps, utilizing advanced APIs for analytics, project management, and work item tracking. The result? A robust, reliable, and high-performance tool that works the way you need it to.

Experience seamless integration with Azure DevOps.

Dynamic Gantt Chart

Build detailed, visual roadmaps to track progress, manage tasks, and set priorities. All work types can be added to your roadmap. If a work item has children you can expand and collapse work items giving you a comprehensive yet granular view of your project’s progress.

Custom Date Settings

This feature that puts you in full control of your date settings. With enhanced formatting, custom quarters, and roll-up logic, your roadmap dates now work exactly the way you do.

• Date Formatting: Choose exactly how you want your dates to appear across the app. Whether you prefer “MM/DD/YYYY”, “DD/MM/YYYY”, or another style, your dates will always look just right.
• Quarter Settings: Define your own quarter start dates and assign them custom nicknames. Tailor your fiscal year to match your business calendar or personal preference—because your timelines should work for you.
• Roll-Up Options: Select any date-based field to drive your roll-up calculations. Enjoy a fully flexible view that reflects the dates that matter most to your work.

Timeline & Dates configuration screen with Custom Quarters and Roll-Up Fields

Custom Columns & Roll-Ups

Effortlessly add custom columns and roll up critical data to build tables that integrate seamlessly with your Gantt chart. Track important metrics like task status, team assignments, and custom fields unique to your workflow. Roll-up functionality enables you to aggregate key data, such as total story points, hours remaining, or progress percentages, giving you a high-level overview of your project's status.

Tailor your columns to fit your team's specific needs, whether you're managing sprints, milestones, or large-scale programs. With the flexibility to display or hide fields on demand, you can keep your roadmap clean, actionable, and focused on your most critical objectives.

Build custom reports with tailored columns.

Advanced Filtering

Instantly filter your roadmap by work item types, dates, and more, ensuring you stay focused on what truly matters. Use powerful filtering options to narrow down your view based on criteria like work item states, assigned team members, priority levels, or custom fields. Whether you’re tracking tasks in progress, upcoming milestones, or overdue work items, the filtering system ensures that the right data is always front and center.

Advanced Filtering helps eliminate noise, making it easier to focus on specific goals or bottlenecks. Save time by applying preset filters for recurring needs or create custom filters to match your unique project workflows. Gain clarity and actionable insights with just a few clicks.

Quickly refine your roadmap view with powerful filters for work item types, dates, priorities, and more.

Saved Views

Save time and streamline your workflow with Saved Views, a powerful feature that lets you create and switch between customized roadmap configurations effortlessly. Set up your Gantt chart with specific filters, such as work item types, date ranges, or team-specific tasks, and save it as a unique view.

Need a different perspective? Adjust the filters for a new focus—like upcoming milestones, critical dependencies, or team progress—and save that configuration as a separate view. Switching between saved views is seamless, allowing you to adapt your roadmap to fit different stakeholders, project phases, or review meetings with just a click.

Saved Views ensure your roadmap stays dynamic, accessible, and tailored to your needs, whether you’re tracking big-picture objectives or zeroing in on granular details.

Switch seamlessly between personalized roadmap setups with the Saved Views feature.

Show Iterations

Display iteration-based timelines to align with your team's sprints and milestones. Automatically visualize your project’s iterations, showcasing start and end dates, sprint goals, and progress markers. With iterations clearly mapped out, you can easily track team velocity, identify blockers, and ensure alignment with Agile or Scrum methodologies.

This feature is perfect for teams looking to connect high-level goals to day-to-day tasks, providing a seamless way to monitor sprint cycles and measure success against iteration objectives. By integrating with your Azure DevOps iteration schedules, the timeline updates dynamically, ensuring your roadmap reflects the latest changes in real time.

Visualize your team's sprints and milestones with a clear, iteration-based timeline.

Key Dates

Highlight critical dates or milestones on your roadmap, complete with custom colors and names. Mark pivotal moments like release deadlines, review sessions, or go-live dates to ensure your team stays on track. Key dates are prominently displayed along the top of your Gantt chart, making it easy to spot upcoming events at a glance.

Customize each key date with unique labels and colors to differentiate between milestones, ensuring clarity for teams and stakeholders. Whether you're tracking project-wide objectives or team-specific targets, this feature ensures critical deadlines are always visible and prioritized. Adjust or add new key dates on the fly to keep your roadmap updated as plans evolve.

Track important milestones at a glance with customizable key dates displayed prominently above your timeline.

Show Dependencies

Visualize task dependencies directly on the timeline, making it easy to identify relationships between work items at a glance. Dependency lines clearly connect predecessors and successors, helping you understand the flow of work and any potential bottlenecks. This visualization ensures your team stays aware of tasks that must be completed to keep the project on track.

For deeper analysis, open the Dependency Modal to view the critical path calculation of dependencies for any work item. The modal provides a detailed chain of predecessors and successors, enabling you to uncover hidden risks and dependencies across your roadmap. With this feature, you can plan smarter, resolve conflicts faster, and ensure seamless project execution.

Uncover the full chain of task dependencies with the detailed Dependency Modal, complete with critical path insights.

Changelog

For a deeper dive into our ever-evolving journey, why not wander through our complete release history? Every milestone, from splashy new features to subtle tweaks, has been lovingly documented right here. Explore how each update has shaped the platform you know today!