Both tools help you plan work in Jira. But only one automatically recalculates your roadmap when priorities change—in under 1 second.
Self-Updating Roadmaps
Atlassian Planning Tool
The key differences that matter for your planning workflow
Where the differences really show up in your daily workflow
You manually drag issues onto the timeline. When priorities change, you manually move them. When a dependency slips, you manually adjust downstream work. When team capacity changes, you manually rebalance.
The sequencing engine calculates optimal positions based on priority, dependencies, and capacity. Change a priority? The entire roadmap recalculates in milliseconds. A dependency slips? Downstream work automatically adjusts.
You can draw dependency lines between issues and see them on the timeline. But the tool doesn't enforce anything—you can schedule a feature before its dependency. It shows conflicts but doesn't resolve them.
Dependencies are respected by the sequencing engine. If Feature B depends on Feature A, the system won't schedule B until A completes. Draw a new dependency, and the roadmap instantly resequences to respect it.
Has team capacity settings but doesn't prevent overallocation. You can see if a team is overloaded, but the tool doesn't help you fix it. Balancing workload is manual trial-and-error.
The engine never schedules more work than a team can handle. Define capacity per team per sprint, and the system distributes work accordingly. If you add more work than capacity allows, it flows into future sprints automatically.
Operates at the Jira issue level. You can group by labels or components, but there's no dedicated layer for strategic objectives. The connection between "why we're building this" and the actual work is implicit at best.
Built-in strategy layer. Define objectives (OKRs, OGSM—whatever framework you use). Connect features to objectives. See real-time progress as work completes. Leadership sees strategy progress; teams see context for their work.
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 | Partial | |
| 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 | Limited | |
Get started in under an hour without disrupting your teams
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Select which Jira projects or spaces to include in your roadmap
Set up teams and their capacity per feature
Watch as Taskstreamer calculates your optimal sequence
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