![]() The one thing that makes it stand out from all the others is that it’s a flexible system rather than a process (see the overview diagram above).Here are the list of things productboard has going for it: I’m not done evaluating, but right now productboard is the one that seems to fit our particular culture and goals the best. This gave me the framework I needed to evaluate the different products I was looking at. Right now we use JIRA, Confluence, Dropbox Paper, and Basecamp, and that can get a little confusing. A way to go from general idea to product specifics in an orderly and predictable fashion.We currently do this in JIRA, and it’s not a great workflow. Incorporating, summarizing, and linking customer feedback from a variety of sources.I’d like to try a version of RICE at some point, but it should be flexible enough to use whatever system we want. Prioritization scoring (customer / business impact, effort, etc.).A visual, lightweight, flexible representation of our product ideas and overall strategy, to help us with prioritization.I then identified what I would need to feel like our planning and scheduling process is effective and efficient: The combination lacks a bunch of things to make it as effective as it can be. And our current process of using Basecamp and Dropbox Paper for planning works just ok for me. JIRA is a great execution tool - I don’t want to change that part. In short, I am looking for a better way to plan. What are the issues I’m hoping to address with software? What am I looking for? So I took a step back and asked myself why I’m actually doing this. Which is kind of ironic for a product that’s aimed at product managers. The landing pages are all great, but once I was in the product, it was like a different (and very confusing) world. Most of the products I was looking at didn’t know why they wanted me to use it either.As I went through each product I realized two things: So on Friday I just did it - I signed up for a bunch of accounts and started playing around. I’ve had this vague sense for a while that I need to dig into the product management software space a lot more.
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