Dragonboat

Flexible Roadmapping Tool for the Agile Product Manager

Kommentare: I used Dragonboat primarily for creating a roadmap that was reasonable to achieve based on resource capacity.

Vorteile:

Dragonboat is a very flexible tool which allows different product owners to manage their roadmaps how they prefer to, yet still make it possible to roll-up what is important at the enterprise level, such as resource needs. The tool is super flexible to organize the backlog of Epics by timeframe, initiatives, sub-roadmaps, OKR's, theme, or any number of other fields. Assigning T-shirt size effort is easy with inline editing, similar to excel. The Portfolio List, which allows quick changes to the view and further provides capability to group and summarize effort, ended up being my easiest part of planning. The dashboard view makes it super easy to visualize the roadmap without overwhelming the audience you are sharing it with.

Nachteile:

For those teams that have many increases/decreases throughout the quarters, resource capacity was not as robust. I would have like more refinement of when resources started. For those with more of a constant size team, it would not be an issue.

Great product

Kommentare: I like Dragonboat a lot and will recommend it to my peers depending on their need. It is excellent for roadmap generation and prioritization but the tool is still a work in progress in some respects.

Vorteile:

Excellent tool that helps with building out a roadmap and easy to see what your priorities are. The Jira integration comes in very handy.

Nachteile:

The solution has been buggy but I do also know we purchased the tool during the growth phase.

Great one-stop product for OKR cascade across the product-led business

Kommentare: Holistic view of the business and product operations across the company. What strategic goals are we focusing on? How do we measure the success with OKRs? What tracks/initiatives/features/ideas, etc. will help us get there? How far are we?

Vorteile:

The features I like the most is the quarterly planning with OKR cascade in the Timeline view. Once I set up strategic goals and OKRs for the quarter it's very easy to link tracks, features, and ideas. I like that I can easily see the high-level picture in one view and can drill down if needed.

Nachteile:

I would love to have more comprehensive Allocation Report. At the end of the quarter I generate shareholder report by resource allocation. Would be great to have the same OKR cascade that's on the Timeline view (strategic goals, OKRs, features, ideas, etc.) and coupled with time allocation by discipline. To have as an outcome the following pie chart as an example: in Q2 we spent X% resources by time on strategic goal Y as measured by OKR1.

Great Strategy Tool

Vorteile:

Integration offerings matched a lot of other enterprise tools we used, which was a key factor in deciding on a Product tool. Also impressed with the level of onboarding support we were provided with - thank you!

Nachteile:

Initial hiccups with setup that were quickly resolved with an attentive and hands-on client success manager.

Dragonboat has been a game changer for my team

Kommentare: It's been a great overall experience. The platform is quickly iterating on exciting new features (faster than we can leverage them) and their team is fantastic to work with.

Vorteile:

Dragonboat has made it easy to have a central source of truth for the road mapping for dozens of products. I appreciate how PMs can easily manage their upcoming work and collaborate on larger projects by leveraging higher level initiatives. They have great filter and dashboard features so it's easy to quickly see different views of the product portfolio.

Nachteile:

I would like it to be a little easier to share Dragonboat views outside of Product Management at scale. They have the basics where you can publish public views and publish views for individuals. I'd love to have groups of external users (so I could share a version of the roadmap with the sales team).