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Backlog’s flexible project and task management is ideal for product development: in unique ways.

• Organization: Create a Backlog project to house your product management processes. Streamline development by keeping all related tasks, feedback, communication, and collaboration in one place for easy reference.
• Task management: With Backlog’s issues, you can create, assign, and manage individual product development tasks. Use it to share references (such as design mockups, customer interviews, or market research) in comments and attached files.
• Collaboration: Use Backlog to break product management issues into subtasks for seamless collaboration, delegation, and detailed progress tracking.
• References: Easily share references, mockups, research, data, and more with Backlog’s convenient file upload features. For detailed documentation, create custom product wiki pages.
• Customer feedback and bug tracking: Use the Add issue via email integration to create new issues automatically. Whenever you receive testing notes or customer feedback in your designated email inbox, the integration will automatically create a new issue based on the content of the email. This streamlines the development process, shortening feedback loops and helping teams focus on delivering results.
• In-app development tools: Manage your product's codebase with in-app version control via Git and Subversion (SVN). Conduct code reviews, manage pull requests and track change history without leaving Backlog.

With Cacoo, teams can easily visualize every product management and development workflow stage. management style your team prefers, although Backlog’s default setup aligns particularly well with Kanban, an Agile framework.

Here are a few examples:

• Product planning: Use Cacoo’s user-friendly flowcharts to illustrate user flows, product lifecycle, processes, and internal workflows. This helps the team collaborate more effectively.
• Product strategy: Design an easy-to-understand product roadmap in Cacoo. Use it to clarify the product’s creative vision for the development team and key stakeholders.
• Creative ideation: Use a mind map template to gather creative product development ideas. Then, discuss and refine contributions using Cacoo’s collaborative features, such as video chat and multi-user editing.
• Analysis and troubleshooting: Leverage detailed product wireframes to diagnose problems or spot opportunities to improve your product design.

Backlog’s Add issue via email feature makes it easy to implement customer feedback into your product development process. By forwarding emails directly to the product board, you can:

• Add efficiency to your product management lifecycle
• Place the customer’s needs at the center of your workflow
• Improve communication and documentation

With this integration, you can forward any email—from customer feedback to bug reports—to your Backlog project. Then, Backlog automatically creates a new issue containing all the details the customer shared.

Armed with this information, product managers can review the issues, add additional details, and delegate remediation tasks to their team. If the idea is complex, the team can break it into subtasks for streamlined collaboration.

Backlog and Cacoo each offer unique features that streamline collaboration between product team members and external stakeholders.

With Backlog, you can control access on a project-by-project basis. Invite all stakeholders as guests to their dedicated product board. This allows them to:

• Gain instant visibility into product development progress
• Ask questions and contribute ideas in issue comments
• Provide additional insights by commencing and uploading reference materials

Because guests only get access to their projects, you won't compromise product development security on your other unrelated projects.

Backlog’s subtasking features also enable product teams to divide up complex tasks. This streamlines collaboration and clarifies ownership of each aspect of the product development process. Used alongside comments, file sharing, and code review, this eliminates many barriers to collaboration that remote product teams may face.

Finally, Backlog seamlessly integrates with your team’s favorite messaging apps, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Chat. This ensures that the team can communicate and share ideas in the most comfortable and productive way.

Cacoo offers even more collaboration options.

First, with Cacoo, you can easily share any asset with the rest of the team and stakeholders by:

• Generating a shareable link (including optional edit access)
• Embedding diagrams on external sites, wiki pages, or on Backlog tasks
• Granting shared access to project folders within the Cacoo platform

Cacoo also enables teams to collaborate and exchange ideas in real-time or asynchronously:

• Multi-user editing allows the whole team to make edits to perfect a diagram in progress
• Comments and text chat allow anyone to share ideas and questions
• Video chat provides the perfect platform for discussing proposed ideas face-to-face

With Backlog’s Add issue via email integration, send customer feedback directly to your product management board for seamless processing, instead of relying on multiple separate product management tools.

Here’s how this workflow might look in action:

1. Customers submit feedback via a dedicated feedback form on the product’s website or in an app
2. The feedback form goes to a dedicated email address, automatically generating a new Backlog issue.
3. The product manager or customer support team assigns the issue to a team member for review and processing.
4. The team uses custom issue types and categories to track feedback type and sentiment.

Backlog facilitates seamless task management in any type of product development lifecycle.

Each project in Backlog includes a Kanban board for user-friendly task management. In Kanban, each task is displayed as a card and organized into columns by workflow status. This allows anyone to analyze their assigned product management tasks and analyze their workloads at a glance.

Teams may further customize their product management lifecycle by creating custom issue statuses and categories. For example, you may need new product development workflow stages, such as internal and user testing. Or you could bucket your market research tasks into one designated category.

Product managers may also use the Gantt chart to manage their product timelines. Use it to analyze how dependent tasks and deadlines stack up, compare team member workloads, and track progress toward key milestones.

Finally, monitor high-priority tasks by opting into in-app or email notifications. These notifications alert you to any updates or new comments on that issue.

Backlog has a variety of product management tools and project management-related integrations.

To ease your transition from another product management tool or project tracking system:

• Redmine and Jira Importer integrations seamlessly transfer project data into Backlog.
• Google Sheets Importer enables you to create new projects or transition from a local spreadsheet-based project management system.

To facilitate collaboration and communication:

• Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Chat integrations send instant updates directly to you. They also enable you to create and manage issues directly from your favorite communication channels without missing a beat.
• Add issue via email lets you move important product updates out of your inbox and onto the Backlog board.

For product asset management:

• Easily link files from your team’s preferred cloud storage, including Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, and Box.

Streamline development projects:

• Integrate code seamlessly with the Jenkins integration
• Detect bugs and create issues to fix them with the LambdaTest integration.

Cacoo’s design interface is easy to use, even for inexperienced designers. Its drag-and-drop design elements and intuitive menus enable everyone to create a user-friendly design.

Start with a template from the Cacoo Template Library for an even more seamless design process. Cacoo offers hundreds of templates designed for any product development workflow. You can create process mapping flow charts, product or app wireframes, marketing assets, data visualization, and more. Each template includes user-friendly instructions and illustrative examples that guide users through the creation process.

Cacoo’s collaboration and sharing features also make integrating designs into every product development stage easy:

• Embed designs into Backlog tasks by sharing a link.
• Generate embed codes or share links to send designs to other product management platforms.
• Use Cacoo’s integrations to send designs directly to a Confluence page for convenient reference.

Backlog’s flexible yet organized platform makes it the perfect tool to streamline any product management project with ease.

Product managers can create dedicated product management boards to keep all related tasks, communication, and references in one place. Then, customize each board with unique product development workflows tailored to each project's needs, maximizing efficiency even further.

With email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Chat integrations, product development is instantly integrated into the team’s day-to-day processes. This enhances collaboration and streamlines product management for everyone.

On-platform version control unites development tasks with task management, ensuring that no details are lost in translation.