Avion

Avion is a story mapping and product planning tool designed for digital organizations. It helps teams visualize the entire customer journey, map out features, and create clear roadmaps. The core idea is to put user experience at the center of the development process, making it easier to see how individual tasks connect to larger business goals and customer value. It aims to eliminate wasted development effort by providing a clear, visual framework for planning.

The tool works by letting you build story maps that situate user personas and their journeys alongside planned features and releases. You can visually plot dependencies between tasks, mark items as 'ready for dev' or 'needs design,' and organize work into phases like MVP. What makes Avion stand out is its tight integration between story maps and roadmaps; you can create a strategic roadmap first and seed development work from it, or start with a detailed story map and generate a roadmap from your plans. It also connects with tools like GitHub, Jira, Azure DevOps, Slack, and Figma to fit into existing workflows.

This tool benefits product managers, business analysts, and entire product teams who need to communicate complex plans simply. It's useful for organizations that want to ensure every piece of development work ties back to a real user need. Real-world use cases include preparing a product MVP for stakeholder review, identifying critical dependencies before they cause delays, and creating a single source of truth that both technical and non-technical team members can understand.