Easy-to-use roadmaps are great. Roadmaps that automatically calculate realistic dates from your Jira data are even better.
Self-Updating Roadmaps
Visual Roadmap Software
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 where you think they should be. Dates are based on your estimates, intuition, and optimism. The tool doesn't know if your team can actually deliver—it just displays what you tell it to display.
The sequencing engine calculates every date. It knows your team's capacity per sprint, respects all dependencies, and sequences by priority. Dates aren't guesses—they're computed from real constraints.
When leadership reprioritizes, you manually move items on the roadmap. You have to think through cascading effects yourself—if Feature A moves, does that affect Feature B? You adjust dates by hand, hoping you didn't miss anything.
Drag a feature to a new priority position. The entire roadmap recalculates in under a second—every downstream date adjusts, every dependency is respected, capacity is rebalanced. You see the impact instantly.
ProductPlan offers Jira integration, but it's a sync between two separate systems. You configure mapping rules, then hope data stays aligned. Status updates may lag, fields may not map perfectly, and someone needs to monitor for drift.
Taskstreamer is a native Jira plugin. It reads your Jira data directly—no sync jobs, no mapping configuration, no drift. Your roadmap IS your Jira data, visualized and sequenced intelligently.
ProductPlan is famously easy to use. The interface is clean and intuitive. You can create a beautiful roadmap in minutes without reading documentation. It's optimized for product managers who want simplicity.
Taskstreamer requires initial setup: defining team capacity, configuring which projects or spaces to include, setting up your sprint cadence. It's not complex, but there's more to configure than a simple drag-and-drop tool.
Real scenarios to help you decide
Every capability, side by side
| Feature | ProductPlan | Taskstreamer |
|---|---|---|
| Roadmap Planning | ||
| Visual timeline roadmaps | ||
| Automatic date calculation | ||
| Automatic dependency sequencing | ||
| Capacity-aware scheduling | ||
| Instant recalculation on changes | ||
| Drag-and-drop interface | ||
| Jira Integration | ||
| Native Jira plugin | ||
| Jira sync available | N/A (native) | |
| Real-time Jira data | Via sync | |
| No sync drift issues | ||
| Jira Data Center support | Limited | |
| Dependencies & Capacity | ||
| Dependency visualization | ||
| Dependencies enforced by engine | ||
| Team capacity tracking | ||
| Prevent team overallocation | ||
| Strategic Layer | ||
| OKR/Objective tracking | Basic | |
| Strategy-to-execution linking | Tags only | |
| Real-time progress from Jira | ||
| Usability & Sharing | ||
| Minimal learning curve | Some setup | |
| Shareable roadmap links | ||
| PowerPoint export | ||
| Multiple roadmap views | ||
Move beyond manual timeline management. Start in under an hour.
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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