# Dragonboat Reviews **Vendor:** Dragonboat **Category:** [Strategy And Innovation Roadmapping Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/strategy-and-innovation-roadmapping-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 15 ## About Dragonboat Dragonboat is the Product Portfolio Layer for agentic enterprises to achieve product outcomes at AI speed and strategic cohesion. It brings together: - An elastic ontology-based foundation — encoded with domain expertise, with a semantic layer actively maintained by ambient agents via contextual integrations across the enterprise toolstack for unified data and coordination. - Product and portfolio apps — powered by runtime intelligence, with headless access for humans and agents to analyze and act from the same live portfolio reality. - Portfolio intelligence running across the product operating graph — surfacing ripple effects, upstream and downstream impacts, and real-time recommendations grounded in portfolio logic, memory, and intent. Enabling executives, teams, and AI agents to reason, decide, and work together across strategy, investments, and PDLC with clarity, speed, and scale. Built by domain experts, adopted by enterprises including BBC, Cornerstone OnDemand, and U.S. Bank, Dragonboat is the go-to OS for modern product-centric organizations operating in a unified agentic paradigm. Learn more at https://dragonboat.io/ ## Dragonboat Reviews ### 1. Excellent tool for Product Managers and Leaders **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jordan S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** I found Dragongboat incredibly easy to learn and understand. After trialing it for a few weeks, I was able to learn all of the various parts and see how easy it was to use. Having used other products in the past that were too complex, I was never able to get the buy-in from my teams and get them actually using it. Dragonboat does'nt have this problem and takes a great approach to managing a product portfolio. As a CPO, I was looking for a tool that can be used by my product managers while at the same time give me visibility into the progress and status of our roadmaps. Dragonboat definitely hits the mark. What I liked best during my trial are the many ways to "slice and dice" the data that is in there as well as the integration with JIRA which we are using heavily. The implementation was very smooth and the the onboarding team there does a fabulous job. They seem very open to hearing feature requests and seem to be making pretty regular upates to the product. **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** There are some features which are a bit hidden which can be frustrating and some of the pages have slightly different user interfaces to the do the same tasks. Their pricing model can be confusing with different components of the platform being split up and some features only covered under certain bundles. **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** I started using Dragonboat as a way to help organize and govern our product roadmaps as well as report on the status and progress of those roadmaps. ### 2. Excellent onboarding, well structured training materials. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Agnieszka M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** simple layout of megamenu intuitive navigation posibility of setting up filters and views for all organisation possibility of customisation for templates and fields good communication with Customer Sucess team members **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** some limitations when importing data demanding onboarding process for someone who is not familiar with Product Portfolio management tool **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** nothing directly for me, ### 3. Fantastic onboarding! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nadine R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** Dragonboat is quick and simple to use and provides great visibility of the product portfolio and the teams' progress. Getting started requires a bit of work, but the support of the onboarding consultants was absolutely priceless. We felt supported every step of the way. **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** It takes some time to understand the logic and setup, but once I got it, it became nice and simple to use. **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** Strategic tool + providing visibility ### 4. Made for Product Managers, by Product Managers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julia Y. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** Easy to customize and smooth Jira integration. Compatible with many other enterprise tools like Slack, Zendesk, SalesForce, Okta etc **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** Navigation UX takes getting used to and homepage could be more customizable **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need a strategy tool that is easily accessible & easy to understand to internal stakeholders so that Product transparency and accountability is enabled. It also must play well with existing tools utilized across the org: Sales, Support, Engineering, etc. ### 5. A holistic suite of tools to manage roadmaps, customer workstreams, OKRs, and product lifecycle **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maria V. | Director of Product Operations, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** 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. **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** Features sometimes hidden due to depth of features--lots of bells and whistles are sometimes undiscoverable without CS or "power user" skills. **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scaling, process streamlining and automation, de-duplication of information, PM one stop shop. ### 6. Flexible roadmapping tool for the Agile Product Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** 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. **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** 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 **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my product area, what was essential were keeping quarterly goals with some reasonable expectations I could achieve based on the resources I had. ### 7. A nearly perfect solution to outcome based and value-driven Product Management & Operations. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jackie O. | Director of Product Operations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** While other solutions focus just on the idea intake side, Dragonboat provides outcome based, multifaceted organization combined with the most robust, 2 way Jira Integration I’ve ever seen providing us full autonomy without needing to ask our engineering partners to change a single thing about how they work. Our Product Team can not only plan, evaluate and sequence work, but they are able to tie all their ideas directly to the target Company and Product Objectives, connect them to Jira, and get seamless and dynamic health and predicted end dates, all in one place. They can also easily manage up using the dashboard and allocation reporting features. **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** I'm greatly looking forwards to the ability to save & share dashboard reporting configurations. I would also like to see continued maturity in the resourcing capabilities that would make it more intuitive in understanding how the resource assignments impact predicted dates and such as well as eliminating some of the tediousness that comes with getting things setup in the system. Lastly, I can't wait to see how the "requests" feature & integrations come to life because if that solves the intake side of things this will be the closest thing to a 1 stop shop out there. **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** When we set out to look for a PPM tool, the key problem we were aiming to solve was finding a way to connect the dots between our tactical execution management solutions and our company level goals to resource/time investments, that would provide data and insights for driving smarter decisions and ultimately lead to better ROI. After spending months looking into potential vendors I came across an article titled “How to Choose Between a Roadmap vs. Product Portfolio (PPM) Tool”. As I read, it was as if all the problems that I was tasked to solve for were being articulated perfectly with the proposed solution being this tool, Dragonboat. After evaluating one other tool, typically referred to as the “gold standard” Product tool, there was no doubt in my mind that Dragonboat was the way to go for us. ### 8. Cohesive product organization, no more silos! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michelle C. | Product and Marketing leader, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** 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. **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Dragonboat:** 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. **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** 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. ### 9. One place to plan and manage all our projects **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roya A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** 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. **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** 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. **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** 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. ### 10. All-in-One Product planning, roadmapping and tracking tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexandre D. | Technical Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** 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. **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** Dragonboat is a powerful tool that may require a bit of a learning curve to get properly setup. **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** 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. ### 11. Good for Any Size Company or Business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** 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. **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** 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. **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** My main problem has been around resource capacity and showing leaders the place we have resource contentions across our department. ### 12. Powerful and user-friendly portfolio product management tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** 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. **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** At this point there is nothing that I dislike about the product nor customer service. **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** 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. ### 13. Mission Control >> Autopilot | Dragonboat really understands Agile Program Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jamie G. | Sr. Technical Program Manager / Scrum Master, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** 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! **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Dragonboat:** 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. **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** 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. ### 14. If you need to manage budget across a product portfolio, this is a must have. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** 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. **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** The product continues to mature. The interface takes some time to get used to but is powerful once you know the ins and outs. **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** 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. ### 15. Senior Program Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Dragonboat?** 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. **What do you dislike about Dragonboat?** 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. **What problems is Dragonboat solving and how is that benefiting you?** 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. ## Dragonboat Discussions - [What is the best way to use Dragonboat with JIRA?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/14329-what-is-the-best-way-to-use-dragonboat-with-jira) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Who should use Dragonboat?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/who-should-use-dragonboat) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Dragonboat pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/dragonboat-dragonboat/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-11+23%3A41%3A33+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=81fc3427-79d0-4bbc-969a-f9352d88c090&secure%5Btoken%5D=672a64609ee63881849b39e295c72dddedd088297dcd8ee63624ecd4719e24cb&format=llm_user) ## Dragonboat Features **Portfolio Management** - Portfolio Types - Planning - Alignment - Portfolio Mix **Analytics** - Analytics **Prepare** - Strategy Map - Strategy Model - Rules - Frameworks **Communication** - Feedback - Confidence Levels - Messaging Integrations - Onboarding **Strategic Planning - Strategic Portfolio Management** - Objectives - Roadmaps - Demand management - Resource Planning - Planning - Simulation - Prioritization - Alignment **Communication** - Community Forum - Customer Ideation **Project Management** - Dependencies - Priorities - Lean Management **Execution** - Team Collaboration - Project Management - Task Management **Plan ** - Vision Statement - Goals - Collaboration - Cascade Planning **Goal Creation** - Team OKR - Individual OKR - Action Item Creation **Strategic Management - Strategic Portfolio Management** - Visiblity - Tracking - Risk Management - Implementation - Change Management - Optimization - Strategy Model - Frameworks **Planning** - Work Capacity - Task Ranking - Kanban Board - Custom Workflows - Release Forecasting **Resource Management** - Definition - Allocation - Optimization **Roadmapping** - Roadmaps - Timelines **Optimize** - Progress Tracking - KPIs - OKR **Data Analysis - Strategic Portfolio Management** - Financial Performance - Forecasting **Agentic AI - Objectives and Key Results (OKR)** - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Workflow Management** - Time Tracking - Progress Monitoring - Budgeting - Team Scorecard **Data & Analytics** - Data Consolidation - Visualizations - Performance - Risk Analysis **Execute** - Performance - Communication - Alignment - Performance **Artificial Intelligence - Strategic Portfolio Management** - Process Intelligence - Predictive Insights - Virtual Agents **Strategy - Project and Portfolio Management** - Simulation - Tracking - Planning - Objectives - Visiblity - Alignment - Risk Management - Implementation - Optimization - Prioritization ## Top Dragonboat Alternatives - [Productboard](https://www.g2.com/products/productboard/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (248 reviews) - [Aha!](https://www.g2.com/products/aha/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (357 reviews) - [Airtable](https://www.g2.com/products/airtable/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (3,187 reviews)