Dragonboat Reviews

We decided to use the platform since it provided a holistic suite of tools to manage our roadmaps, customer specific workstreams, OKRs, and product/feature lifecycle. I am not aware of another tool on the market that has this level of breadth and still remains easy to use. We worked closely with our CSM and AM throughout our relationship and they were responsive, solutions-oriented, and professional. The highlight of this relationship was the co-designing and collaboration to build solutions that satisfied sometimes nuance requirements. We felt like partners and learned from one another on a daily basis as new situations arose and we formulated intelligent workflows and solutions that ultimately helped our business grow and scale. Working with Dragonboat is hands down the most collaborative, positive, responsive SaaS experience I have ever had. Investment in the tool is well worth it, but I also see it as low risk since everyone goes above and beyond to ensure implementation and steady state use are optimized for the customer.

Features sometimes hidden due to depth of features--lots of bells and whistles are sometimes undiscoverable without CS or "power user" skills.

Scaling, process streamlining and automation, de-duplication of information, PM one stop shop.

Dragonboat is a very flexible tool that allows different product owners to manage their roadmaps how they prefer to, yet still make it possible to roll up what is essential 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 the capability to group and summarize effort, ended up being my easiest part of planning. The dashboard view makes it easy to visualize the roadmap without overwhelming the audience you are informing.

The product is still evolving, I would have liked to have external customers vote on ideas. I also felt more was needed handling resources capacity for situations like maintenance hours or fluctuations to when resources started on the team

In my product area, what was essential were keeping quarterly goals with some reasonable expectations I could achieve based on the resources I had.

Dragonboat is the planning tool we, as a product organization, were lacking for product roadmapping and quarterly alignment. Long gone are the the days of out-of-date excel spreadsheets and roadmap screenshots. Product, Engineering and Design can all collaborate in one single location for product prioritization, planning and resourcing. In addition, Project/Program Management can easily track progress thanks to the JIRA integration and easily communicate update to all stakeholders via the Dragonboat dashboard.

Dragonboat is a powerful tool that may require a bit of a learning curve to get properly setup.

Resource planning, quarterly alignment and roadmapping are the main problems that brought us to Dragonboat. We have been able to increase team collaboration for product prioritization, incorporate quarterly alignment into our processes and increase visibility into our roadmap.

Dragonboat provides us a way for all of our product teams to come together and collaborate when needed while still allowing individual PM's to manage their own roadmaps the way they prefer.

We use dragonboat for quarterly planning and weekly roadmap check ins both within product and engineering, also across the company. The alignment with OKRs makes prioritization much easier. The portfolio allocation and dependency management help PMs to work across silos. And my favorite part is the reporting that rolls up in different perspectives for different stakeholders.

They don’t have an integration with Netsuite yet. I heard it’s on the roadmap. Today we’ll download the data in csv and upload to Netsuite for financials.

Product teams often run into silos. Dragonboat provides a holistic portfolio perspective that OKRs and products and resources all in one place as how a good company should run.

We want to connect various PM teams into a cohesive product organization, because this is essential to creating a cohesive product experience. Agile without chaos.

Dragon Boat is comprehensive, adaptable, and easy to configure. It supports strategic planning, resource forecasting, progress tracking and reporting of portfolios. Our PMs can confidently manage resources and prioritize customer and stakeholder requests.

At this point there is nothing that I dislike about the product nor customer service.

Our product teams need a way to manage all our roadmaps. Dragon Boat eliminates the need for many spreadsheets and slide decks. It's really powerful and flexible and support all our portfolio product management needs.

We have many customer projects in our agency and need to juggle people and timeline between projects. Before that we tried many tools and still went back to spreadsheets. After being referred by a friend, we decided to give Dragonboat a try. There are a couple things we really like in Dragonboat. One is that it’s very flexible. Our teams have different preferences on the format. Some like spreadsheets, some like Gantt charts or kanban boards. Dragonboat has all these formats so everyone is happy with what they want to use. I really like the resource planning and trade off features. We can plan our portfolio of projects in the most resource efficient way. It even has financials where most tools don’t have.

It took me sometime to get around the product. But their customer success was super helpful. Once I got the terminologies figured out it was really easy for our team to use it.

We were looking for an effective and easy to use tool to plan projects and resources. Dragonboat delivers all of them and more. We work so much better now as a team.

Dragonboat is very adaptable to whatever the size of the company/business. ONE of my favorite features is the Dashboard Snapshot. This is the view I use with senior leadership. They like the simplicity of them and they can in an instant know how things are going with anyone of the strategic initiatives.

At this point there is nothing I don't like. I have provided feedback on what things would be helpful and the team has been very receptive. In fact, many of the suggestions I have provided have been developed in a quick amount of time.

My main problem has been around resource capacity and showing leaders the place we have resource contentions across our department.

The JIRA integration.

Having something that lays on top of where the development work is amazing and it's thought out in true Agile form!

The UX could be more intuitive. The epic modal hides all of the great features like resource management & commenting, but overall the functionality is there.

If you have questions about configuring the JIRA integration, just ask them.

Overall, they take customer feedback personally and you can see it in their product.

First and foremost, it's forcing company level alignment (not just product), on goals that allows for Product to really understand where they need to focus. Secondly, it's replaced spreadsheets which aren't living and almost impossible to keep up to date and all pods are in Dragonboat so it's not 5 different roadmaps living in google drive somewhere.

Love the easy and high level resource availability planning by idea (aka project or epic). Also really appreciate the flexibility of the Dragonboat team to build out for unforeseen use cases quickly.

Some of the features are hard to visually find. It took a fair bit of hand-holding by Dragonboat personnel to find that the tool had the functionality that we were looking for, but it was hidden.

We are only in trial right now, but anticipate using it to do high level idea planning - e.g. fit to themes, KPIs, etc, as well as high level resource planning.

Staying on time and on budget can be tricky for multi-portfolio projects. Managing staff holidays and workload is also tricky. There are plenty of roadmapping tools that make beautiful gantt charts, but none that take it down to the resource planning level. This one is capable of tying all the pieces together.

The product continues to mature. The interface takes some time to get used to but is powerful once you know the ins and outs.

The biggest win from this product is being able to live-adjust the roadmap and see the resource impact real time. This allows me to have real-time conversations with stakeholders on priority tradeoffs.