Asana is great for task management. But engineering roadmaps need automatic scheduling, dependency sequencing, and Jira integration that Asana wasn't built to provide.
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The key differences that matter for your planning workflow
Where the differences really show up in your daily workflow
Asana is built for general project management. While engineering teams can use it, they typically also use Jira for sprint planning, bug tracking, and development workflows. This creates two systems that need to stay synchronized.
Taskstreamer lives inside Jira. Engineers never leave their workflow—they work in Jira as usual, and Taskstreamer automatically transforms that work into an intelligent roadmap. No context switching, no sync issues.
Asana has dependency features that show relationships between tasks. When a predecessor moves, it can shift dependent tasks. But it doesn't understand engineering complexity—sprint capacity, parallel workstreams, or cross-team coordination.
Our sequencing engine understands engineering constraints. It respects dependencies, team capacity per sprint, parallel workstreams, and priority order. Add a dependency, and the entire roadmap resequences optimally in milliseconds.
In Asana, you set dates manually or they shift based on simple dependency logic. The tool doesn't know how much work your teams can handle per week, so dates are essentially educated guesses that drift from reality.
Every date in Taskstreamer is calculated by the sequencing engine. It knows each team's capacity per sprint and sequences work accordingly. "When will feature X ship?" has a real answer based on everything in the queue.
Asana excels at cross-functional project management. Marketing, design, product, and engineering can all work in the same workspace. It's designed for collaboration across departments on shared initiatives.
Taskstreamer focuses on engineering and product teams. While the Strategy app gives executives portfolio visibility, it's not designed to be a work management tool for marketing or HR departments.
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 | |
| Strategic Layer | ||
| Goals/OKR tracking | ||
| Strategy-to-execution linking | ||
| Live progress from Jira | ||
| Executive portfolio app | Portfolios | |
| Collaboration | ||
| Cross-functional workspaces | Eng-focused | |
| Task comments & collaboration | Via Jira | |
| Forms & intake | ||
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Add Taskstreamer to your Jira Cloud or Data Center
Choose which Jira projects or spaces feed your roadmap
Define capacity per team per sprint
Watch dates calculate automatically from your data
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