Product roadmapping tools for software engineering have simplified product-related communication and streamlined product management and development efforts. This document profiles selected vendors and tools that can assist with:
Management of software product vision and strategy alignment
Communication of ideas and requirements
Decision making through an understanding of user behavior, data and analytics, priorities, and consequences
Defining software features and business capabilities, and handling backlogs
Planning and tracking software development releases
Financial and budget management
Collaboration on timelines
Communication, negotiation and updates
Integration planning and resource tracking
Report generation and notifications
Managing feedback from developers, teams and users
Support for continuous development and continuous integration

Product Roadmapping Tools for Software Engineering

The application development life cycle management (ADLM) tool market focuses on the planning and governance activities of the software development life cycle (SDLC). ADLM products focus on the 'development' portion of an application's life. Key elements of an ADLM solution include: software requirements definition and management, software change and configuration management, software project planning, with a current focus on agile planning, work item management, quality management, including defect management. Other key capabilities include: reporting, workflow, integration to version management, support for wikis and collaboration, strong facilities for integration to other ADLM tools.

Application Development Life Cycle Management

Gartner defines enterprise agile planning (EAP) tools as products that enable organizations to scale their agile practices to support a holistic enterprise view. These tools act as a hub for defining, planning, managing and deploying work. They also serve as an information hub for the disparate islands of metrics from the full life cycle. Just as agile is an evolution of development methodologies, EAP tools are an evolution of project-/team-centric tools. They support a business-outcome-driven approach to managing the full life cycle of agile product delivery at scale.
EAP tools in this market combine data from multiple sources to enable: 
- Monthly, weekly and even daily incremental value delivery based on business outcomes
- Support for enterprise agile frameworks like Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Product roadmapping
- Management of strategy, investments and objectives
- Increased visibility into the flow of work
- Management of work backlogs
- Collaboration capabilities for individuals and teams
- Management of cross-team dependencies
- Release planning and forecasting
- Visibility into the financial aspects of the work being done

Enterprise Agile Planning Tools

The market for social software in the workplace includes software products that support people working together in teams, communities or networks. These products can be tailored to support a variety of collaborative activities. Buyers are looking for virtual environments that can engage participants to create, organize and share information, and encourage them to find, connect and interact with each other. Business use of these products ranges from project coordination within small teams or homogeneous groups, to information exchange between employees across an entire organization.

Social Software in the Workplace

Gartner defines the collaborative work management market as products that provide task-driven workspaces to enable end users to plan, coordinate and automate their work. These solutions provide user-friendly capabilities for work planning, in-context collaboration, content creation, workflow and automation, reporting, analytics and dashboards, as well as use-case accelerators on a platform that handles data management and administrative operations. Products in this market are defined by their purpose (work planning and execution), their target users and their broad functionality.

Collaborative Work Management

Resource management software is designed to help businesses efficiently allocate and manage their resources, such as employees, equipment, time, and finances, across various projects and tasks. It enables managers to optimize resource usage, track availability, schedule work, and forecast future resource needs, aiming to improve productivity and reduce costs by avoiding overallocation or underutilization. This software also includes features for planning, reporting, and it integrates with other business tools to provide a comprehensive view of all resources. The typical users are project managers, resource managers, team leaders, and executives across various industries.

Resource Management Software

Gartner defines marketing work management (MWM) platforms as a self-service system of record for marketing projects and productivity. MWM platforms provide stakeholders a holistic view into past, current and planned work that enables management of marketing initiatives and related resources. MWM platforms can offer a range of capabilities such as intake management, resource allocation, project collaboration, workflow automation, template standardization and asset approval. Native or integrated tools may enable varying degrees of strategic and financial planning, budgeting, and talent management

Marketing Work Management Platforms

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BUSINESS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS

JIRA is a powerhouse for project management, but be prepared to climb the learning curve. Feature-rich but clunky interface, great for complex projects if you put in the effort to learn it

SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER

In general the product roadmapping functionalities of Jira help us as product managers to link our product backlog to roadmaps that I normally created in other tools. However, it also has some drawbacks related to the options for customization, as well as the UI that is not always that intuitive.

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Appfluence

Businessmap

ProdPad

Citrix

IBM (Apptio)

Broadcom

Craft.io

Casual

Digital.ai

Tara

Innohabit Technologies

Wellspring (Sopheon)

Pendo

GanttPRO

ConnectALL

Receptive

airfocus

Kytes

DIRECTOR OF IT

This software was in place when I started working in my current role. It was only partially implemented and not working that well. At the onset were were unsure if it was issues with our internal organization or some sort of issues with the vendor. We will have to continue to monitor this and determine if we need a replacement.

SENIOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

powerful and flexible project management tools that excel in agile environments. 

CLOUD SUPPORT 2

JIRA software is a game changer when it comes to product roadmapping tools for software engineering. Its user-friendly interface and intuitive features make the complex tasks of project management feel like a breeze. What sets JIRA apart is its seamless integration with Agile methodologies, allowing teams to plan, track and release software efficiently.

One standout feature is the visual roadmap, which provides a clear overview of project timelines and dependencies. This helps teams stay on the same page and adapt to changes effortlessly. The customizable workflows and boards make It easy to tailor JIRA to specify project needs, ensuring a personalized and efficient experience.

Collaborating is at the heart of JIRA, with real-time updates and commenting features that foster communication among team members. The robust reporting and analytics tools empower teams to make data-driven decisions and continuously improve their processes.

In conclusion, JIRA software is a must-have for any software engineering team looking for a powerful yet user-friendly product roadmapping tool. It simplifies complex tasks, enhances collaboration, and ultimately boosts the overall productivity of the team.

IT Associate

JIRA is helpful for tracking daily tasks and we can better maintain the process to follow project management easily. Also the software is user friendly.

IT CONSULTANT

Jira from Atlassian is a great product for Project Management and Issue Tracking. It can be installed on premise or it can be used as a service on cloud. It also provides a deployment pipeline using Devops. Jira has multiple verticals like JSM - Jira Service Management for issue/bug tracking, Jira Software Portal where Automation rules can be created, Jira Workflow Management where workflows can be designed. Jira is secure as data at rest and data in transit both are encrypted.

Data Scientist-Optimization

It is a top tier project management and product road mapping tool for software engineering teams, providing robust features, flexibility, and integration options makes it an integral part of any planning or tracking activity that requires execution of any software development project.

SR. SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

We have been using Jira for the past couple of years and I must say that it's a product of great value for all organization sizes. You can customize it the way you need it. It provides a wide range of add-ins which helps eliminate other standalone products. Easy to use and navigate from a user's perspective. 

Senior Software Engineer

Jira is the best software in the market for project planning, mapping, and tracking the overall progress of the project. It's very easy to define the parameters that help to reduce the task based on effort, priority, and time complexity. Jira contains a large number of features like tags, story points, priorities, sprints, etc which not only helps in tracking the tasks but also helps in identifying and searching the tasks passed on tags, priorities, and many more. It contains a user-friendly interface that is easy to use and manage. It's easy to customize the tool based on your requirements and features and can be easily linked with other software.   


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DEVOPS ENGINEER

Jira is a powerful project management tool that has many features that help small to larger teams to easily manage their product backlogs, stories and its tracking seamlessly. My experience of using Jira over the years has made our professional life easier by managing the entire project lifecycle efficiently from the start of sprints to the end of sprints. It has very good reporting features, backlog management and advanced features to manage complex workflows and projects. It is a full suite of tools for creating, managing and tracking project progress in real time. Best product ever in this domain and happy to use it for the last many years.

SECURITY ANALYST

We are utilizing Jira to manage sprints and streamline SDLC. it provides us with transparency and sprint structures to keep up with project deadlines. This allows our team to focus on all projects simultaneously irrespective of deadlines. It provides visibility of responsibilities, tasks and deadlines which allows our team to collaborate in real time.

SENIOR SECURITY ANALYST

Jira is used to organize all tasks from different teams. Jira provides real-time updates, customizable workbooks, and streamlines project management; it has the ability to easily integrate with other tools..

ENGINEER

Jira covers a wide range of how a team wants to approach software delivery, from kanban to agile.
The UI does have a small learning curve to it, but it allows great flexibility on how teams want to break down their approach to delivering software features.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

It is very helpful in tracking and managing work. Using Jira we will create the project a project with in the project we can easily create the task it means representing the issue will assign the task to the team members along with the due dates.

Head of Engineering

Satisfied with the overall capabilities of the product. It helped us to track the feedback from the customers and groom them into a full blown stores/capabilities which helped our product. Also it helped product manager to prioritize the capabilities based on the market needs and ROI index.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Jira is really organising our day to day tasks, I have tried a number of solutions to manage my project execution to ensure transparency and collaborative efforts, while switching to Jira we feel it has become an inevitable tool for us. My experience with jira is quite good.

Product Specialist

Jira is a critical tool for our team and the execution of our product roadmap, roadmapping and task management features streamlines our workflow and keep us accountable to tasks and timelines

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

A robust tool for managing software development roadmaps. Offers great flexibility, though can be complex at times

MTS-3

It's one of the best experiences, the way we use Jira api and tools. We customise Jira tools for our use directly from automation. In our application, we use this tool to fetch all the similar jira by applying ML model. The experience and usage is smooth.

Atlassian is a company structured around a vast team of more than 7000 individuals who tirelessly work towards developing innovative tools such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello. The core objective of Atlassian rests in making global teams more agile, inventive, and coordinated by leveraging these tools.