Asana runs marketing. Taskstreamer runs engineering roadmaps.
Self-updating roadmaps
Work management for every team
The key differences that matter for your planning workflow.
Where the differences really show up in your daily workflow.
Asana is a generalist work management platform. Engineering teams can use it, but they usually also use Jira for sprints, bug tracking, and development. That creates two systems to keep aligned.
Lives inside Jira. Engineers never leave their workflow. The calculation engine transforms their Jira work into a roadmap automatically.
Dependencies exist as relationships between tasks. When a predecessor moves, dependents can shift. No concept of sprint capacity, parallel work streams, or engineering coordination across teams.
The calculation engine respects dependencies as hard constraints, understands sprint capacity per team, handles parallel streams, and sequences by priority. Add a dependency and the roadmap resequences across all teams.
Dates are set manually or shift based on simple dependency logic. The tool does not know team capacity per sprint, so dates are estimates that drift from delivery reality.
Every date comes from the calculation engine. Team capacity per sprint is a first-class input. "When will X ship?" has a computed answer, not an educated guess.
Asana shines when many functions need one tool: marketing tracking campaigns, sales running pipelines, HR onboarding hires, engineering coordinating deliverables. Everyone uses the same platform with workflows shaped per team.
Built for engineering and product teams on Jira. The Strategy App gives executives portfolio visibility, but this is not a marketing or HR tool. If you need those, you need Asana alongside, not instead.
Real scenarios to help you decide.
Every capability, side by side.
| Feature | Asana | Taskstreamer |
|---|---|---|
| Roadmap planning | ||
| Timeline / Gantt views | ||
| Automatic date calculation | ||
| Automatic dependency sequencing | Basic | |
| Capacity-aware scheduling | ||
| Instant full recalculation | ||
| Jira integration | ||
| Native Jira plugin | ||
| Jira sync available | N/A (native) | |
| Real-time Jira data | Via sync | |
| Jira Data Center support | Limited | |
| Strategy layer | ||
| Goals / OKR tracking | ||
| Strategy-to-execution linking | ||
| Live progress from Jira | ||
| Executive portfolio app | Portfolios | |
| Collaboration | ||
| Cross-functional workspaces | Eng-focused | |
| Task comments and collaboration | Via Jira | |
| Forms and intake | ||
| Pricing | ||
| Per user per month (annual billing) | $10.99+ (Starter) | €3 |
Get automatic scheduling from your Jira data. Start in under an hour. Most teams run the Planning 30-day journey: day 1 installed, day 7 the plan is alive, day 30 running on autopilot.
Add Taskstreamer to your Jira Cloud or Data Center instance.
Choose which Jira projects or spaces feed your roadmap.
Define team capacity per sprint. That is all the engine needs.
Watch the calculation engine produce your optimal sequence.
Keep Asana for marketing. Add Taskstreamer for engineering. Fourteen-day free trial.