Monday.com is great for general work management. But for engineering roadmaps with complex dependencies and Jira integration, you need purpose-built automation.
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The key differences that matter for your planning workflow
Where the differences really show up in your daily workflow
Monday.com is a "Work OS"—a flexible platform that can be configured for almost anything: project management, CRM, marketing campaigns, HR workflows, and more. This flexibility is powerful but means no single use case gets deep, specialized functionality.
Taskstreamer does one thing: engineering roadmaps. Our entire product is built around automatic sequencing, dependency management, capacity planning, and Jira integration. Every feature is designed to make roadmap planning better.
Monday.com has a Jira integration, but it's a sync between two separate systems. You configure field mappings, set up sync schedules, and hope things stay aligned. Engineering works in Jira; Monday.com becomes a reporting layer that can drift.
Taskstreamer is a Jira plugin—it reads your Jira data directly. No sync jobs, no field mapping, no drift. When an engineer updates a story in Jira, your roadmap reflects it instantly. One source of truth.
Monday.com lets you draw dependency lines between items. But they're visual indicators, not scheduling constraints. You can schedule a dependent item before its predecessor—the tool won't stop you or adjust dates automatically.
Our sequencing engine enforces dependencies. Feature B can't start until Feature A completes. Add a dependency, and the entire roadmap resequences instantly. You'll never accidentally ship something before its prerequisite is done.
Monday.com shines when you need one tool for many teams: marketing tracking campaigns, sales managing pipelines, HR onboarding employees. Everyone can use the same platform with different configurations for their workflows.
Taskstreamer is built for engineering and product teams working with Jira. We don't try to be a marketing tool or CRM. If you need those capabilities, you'll need additional tools alongside Taskstreamer.
Real scenarios to help you decide
Every capability, side by side
| Feature | Monday.com | Taskstreamer |
|---|---|---|
| Roadmap Planning | ||
| Visual timeline views | ||
| Automatic date calculation | ||
| Automatic dependency sequencing | ||
| Capacity-aware scheduling | ||
| Instant recalculation | ||
| Jira Integration | ||
| Native Jira plugin | ||
| Jira sync available | N/A (native) | |
| Real-time Jira data | Via sync | |
| Jira Data Center support | Limited | |
| Dependencies & Capacity | ||
| Dependency visualization | ||
| Dependencies enforced | ||
| Team capacity tracking | Basic | |
| Prevent overallocation | ||
| Strategic Layer | ||
| OKR/Objective tracking | Basic | |
| Strategy-to-execution linking | Manual | |
| Executive portfolio app | Dashboards | |
| Platform Flexibility | ||
| Multi-use platform (CRM, HR, etc.) | ||
| Non-technical user friendly | ||
| Many integrations | Jira-focused | |
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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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