Advanced Roadmaps draws a timeline. Taskstreamer builds one that stays true.
Self-updating roadmaps
Atlassian's timeline tool
The key differences that matter for your planning workflow.
Where the differences really show up in your daily workflow.
You drag items onto the timeline. Priorities shift, you move them. A dependency slips, you adjust downstream work. Team capacity changes, you rebalance. Roadmaps drift out of date within two sprints of the last planning session.
The calculation engine places items based on priority, dependencies, and capacity. Change a priority and the whole roadmap recomputes in milliseconds. A dependency slips, downstream work shifts automatically.
You can draw dependency lines between issues and the tool will warn you if the timeline violates them. It does not refuse to schedule an item before its dependency ships, and it does not re-sequence downstream work when you add a new dependency.
The engine treats dependencies as hard constraints. Draw a new one and the entire roadmap resequences to respect it. An item cannot land before its predecessor completes.
Capacity settings exist per team. The tool shows overallocation as a warning. It does not prevent the overallocation or rebalance work to fit.
The engine never places more work in a sprint than the team can finish. Overflow flows to the next available sprint. Capacity is a ceiling the calculation respects.
If your organization already pays for Jira Premium or Enterprise, Advanced Roadmaps is included. No additional cost. For teams with a working timeline and no acute planning pain, that is a reasonable place to stop.
Priced separately, from €3/user/month billed annually. Teams typically add Taskstreamer when Advanced Roadmaps has stopped being enough: too many priority changes, too many manual rebuilds, too many stakeholder questions without real answers.
Real scenarios to help you decide.
Every capability, side by side.
| Feature | Advanced Roadmaps | Taskstreamer |
|---|---|---|
| Core Planning | ||
| Timeline visualization | ||
| Automatic roadmap recalculation | ||
| Automatic dependency sequencing | ||
| Priority-based scheduling | ||
| What-if scenario planning | Manual only | |
| Dependencies | ||
| Dependency visualization | ||
| Cross-team dependency tracking | ||
| Dependency conflict warnings | ||
| Auto-resolve dependency conflicts | ||
| Capacity & Teams | ||
| Team capacity tracking | Warnings only | |
| Prevent team overallocation | ||
| Multi-team workload balancing | ||
| Sprint-level planning | ||
| Strategic Layer | ||
| Connect work to objectives (OKRs) | ||
| Strategic progress dashboard | ||
| Multi-framework support (OKR, OGSM, etc.) | ||
| Integration & Export | ||
| Native Jira integration | ||
| Jira Data Center support | ||
| 1-click PowerPoint export | ||
| Live shareable dashboards | Basic | |
| Pricing | ||
| Per user per month (annual billing) | Included in Premium | €3 |
| Additional license required | No (if Premium) | Yes |
Most teams are up and running in under an hour. No disruption to existing Jira workflows. Most 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.
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