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Dragonboat
What Is Dragonboat?
Dragonboat is the #1 product operations platform used by over 4,000 product teams from companies including Toyota, Stack Overflow, and Procore to maximize product ROI.
As the central hub for your entire product operating model, Dragonboat enables everyone–from product leaders to cross-functional teams– to align on strategies, evaluate opportunities, allocate resources, manage trade-offs, and collaborate to deliver maximum business impact.
Learn more at http://dragonboat.io/
Who Uses Dragonboat?
Dragonboat is the #1 product operations platform that enables product leaders to maximize business impact through effective product and portfolio management.
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Reviews of Dragonboat
Continuous strategic planning and alignment with Dragonboat
Comments: Before using Dragonboat, we had different teams planning in spreadsheets and misalignment of allocation of resources to core business objectives that leadership was trying to achieve. When it comes to strategic planning, we’re starting to focus on how the business OKRs align to the allocation of the organization. Dragonboat is something we’ve been able to leverage to push our strategic planning capability, both annually and continuously, throughout the organization. We've changed our strategic mindset to really focus on where growth lies and focus the product organization on the proposed growth objectives and we’re starting to see the results of that.
Pros:
By using Dragonboat we are able to better plan our product development process. We now can work with engineering and product managers from a bottom-up perspective and my executive leadership team from a top-down perspective. We can see what we are trying to achieve, where we are trying to go, what are the major initiatives and projects that we need to do, how do resources tie to features that tie to business objectives, and more. The roll up reporting from Jira to OKRs has really made a huge impact from an insights perspective on what we're doing and what we're going to achieve. Now I can have a good conversation with executives with a known understanding of the data.
Cons:
I don’t have many. The support team is really helpful and has helped us to roll out the tool every step of the way. Whenever there is an issue, they are quick to address it.
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Flexible Roadmapping Tool for the Agile Product Manager
Comments: I used Dragonboat primarily for creating a roadmap that was reasonable to achieve based on resource capacity.
Pros:
Dragonboat is a very flexible tool which allows different product owners to manage their roadmaps how they prefer to, yet still make it possible to roll-up what is important at the enterprise level, such as resource needs. The tool is super flexible to organize the backlog of Epics by timeframe, initiatives, sub-roadmaps, OKR's, theme, or any number of other fields. Assigning T-shirt size effort is easy with inline editing, similar to excel. The Portfolio List, which allows quick changes to the view and further provides capability to group and summarize effort, ended up being my easiest part of planning. The dashboard view makes it super easy to visualize the roadmap without overwhelming the audience you are sharing it with.
Cons:
For those teams that have many increases/decreases throughout the quarters, resource capacity was not as robust. I would have like more refinement of when resources started. For those with more of a constant size team, it would not be an issue.
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Great one-stop product for OKR cascade across the product-led business
Comments: Holistic view of the business and product operations across the company. What strategic goals are we focusing on? How do we measure the success with OKRs? What tracks/initiatives/features/ideas, etc. will help us get there? How far are we?
Pros:
The features I like the most is the quarterly planning with OKR cascade in the Timeline view. Once I set up strategic goals and OKRs for the quarter it's very easy to link tracks, features, and ideas. I like that I can easily see the high-level picture in one view and can drill down if needed.
Cons:
I would love to have more comprehensive Allocation Report. At the end of the quarter I generate shareholder report by resource allocation. Would be great to have the same OKR cascade that's on the Timeline view (strategic goals, OKRs, features, ideas, etc.) and coupled with time allocation by discipline. To have as an outcome the following pie chart as an example: in Q2 we spent X% resources by time on strategic goal Y as measured by OKR1.
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Great product
Comments: I like Dragonboat a lot and will recommend it to my peers depending on their need. It is excellent for roadmap generation and prioritization but the tool is still a work in progress in some respects.
Pros:
Excellent tool that helps with building out a roadmap and easy to see what your priorities are. The Jira integration comes in very handy.
Cons:
The solution has been buggy but I do also know we purchased the tool during the growth phase.
Dragonboat has been a game changer for my team
Comments: It's been a great overall experience. The platform is quickly iterating on exciting new features (faster than we can leverage them) and their team is fantastic to work with.
Pros:
Dragonboat has made it easy to have a central source of truth for the road mapping for dozens of products. I appreciate how PMs can easily manage their upcoming work and collaborate on larger projects by leveraging higher level initiatives. They have great filter and dashboard features so it's easy to quickly see different views of the product portfolio.
Cons:
I would like it to be a little easier to share Dragonboat views outside of Product Management at scale. They have the basics where you can publish public views and publish views for individuals. I'd love to have groups of external users (so I could share a version of the roadmap with the sales team).
