Dragonboat

“We went out to search for a tool help us to plan and manage our goals and how we were tracking against our KPIs. When we found Dragonboat, it was an easy decision. They provide an integrated solution that helps us plan, track, and deliver OKRs and continuously review and adjust our focus.”

“As we are expanding our product lines and growing rapidly, we need to focus on business outcomes while keeping our strategic themes understood across the company. We started to create sophisticated spreadsheets to support our operating cadences. But managing this in spreadsheets is time-consuming and the data quickly gets outdated.”

“Dragonboat enforces product management best practices both within the product teams, also educating the company. With Dragonboat, Product Managers align product features to objectives (the Why) and teams are empowered to work together to define the game plan (the How) to best achieve the objectives.”

“By having the strategic goals and progress already mapped, I can quickly create and share custom reports for different stakeholders.”

“My team loves the configurable views so they can easily sort and filter to exactly what they want to see on the Summary view. I have found it’s very easy to flag potential issues.”

“There was no easy way to connect the ‘Why’ and the ‘How’. The Product team needed a tool that could easily and clearly define what our objectives are, how we are going to achieve them, and where we are in our progress. We needed a tool to enable us to keep up with our company’s quick growth.”

““Dragonboat ensures our GTM teams are in the loop on both current and long-term plans.””

““We brought on Dragonboat because we needed a central source of truth with a standard interface that we could publish roadmaps people can understand. I didn’t want it at the Jira level, as that’s for engineers, not the rest of the business.””

“When I first came into the organization, every product owner had their unique roadmap and spreadsheet with varying priorities. To understand their roadmap, individuals had to establish a personal relationship with each product manager, which wasn’t feasible for a company our size.”

““I’ve used Excel, tabs, and charts, and I’ve seen impressively designed PowerPoint slides. However, none of these methods are tied to anything substantial. They’re rigid, challenging to manage, and not flexible enough to adapt to changes. The truth is, effective product portfolio management can’t be achieved without a dedicated tool.””

““What’s great about Dragonboat is its ability to display, in a clear and concise manner, how all the work that product development is undertaking ties back to the objective. This visibility and alignment within cross-functional teams are paramount as they enhance transparency, which is essential for breaking down those silos.””

““By focusing on the numbers, my teams improved to ~90% on-time delivery and a 50% decrease in hotfixes. It’s this radical focus that drives performance for a Product Development organization.””

““Dragonboat equips the CPO with the capacity to scale, introducing analytics to the organization and enabling the product managers, engineers, and CPO to accomplish more with less. Dragonboat supports Product Ops and assists CPOs in making efficient, data-driven decisions, offering real-time access to data and circumventing roadblocks that could hinder scaling.””

“From a product management standpoint, the heart of our discussions should not solely focus on features and functions, but rather on outcomes. Our conversations must pivot around market trends, organizational objectives, and, ultimately, the desired outcomes we aim to achieve.”

“There’s a say-do ratio. A lot of companies say they don’t want to be feature focused, but being outcome-focused doesn’t mean you stop outputs. There needs to be strategy and outcome, but also the ability to execute and evaluate what we are not going to do, and what the bottlenecks are. This allows you to achieve what you need to achieve.”

“Leadership needs an articulated strategy and prioritization that aligns with OKRs.”

“Prior to implementing a portfolio management tool, my teams were tracking only a 20% on-time delivery capability with virtually zero strategic projects delivered.”

““It’s been a great partnership with the Dragonboat team. We now have an effective tool stack for outcome focused roadmapping, portfolio management platform via seamless integration with agile delivery platform (Jira), streamlining collaboration and better decisions with a source of truth for all levels.””

““With Dragonboat, quarterly planning has gone from weeks to days (for my business unit). PMs no longer feel stressed out prior to the business reviews. They now feel confident knowing the data is correct and in one place. So we can actually have productive discussions to solve actual product and business challenges.””

“We’ve been leading a project to product, output to outcome focused transformation in the last a few years. Teams are gradually moving towards the right direction, but we don’t have the tools to support our enterprise. Jira Align is too restrictive on how our teams want to work. We don’t want to disrupt engineering teams’ existing process and practice.”

““When we plan using Google Sheets it took a lot of time to plan the jigsaw puzzle between teams and services. Dragonboat makes this process easier and speed up our product decisions. It allows us to go from (launching) 2 products in 3 years, to 4 products in 18 months. ””

““Dragonboat enables us to collaboratively create and adjust our portfolio roadmap to achieve both our business goals AND product vision. It also ensures we have the resources to deliver them. On top of that, we now have clear visibility of our execution. The status is always up to date. We can easily see our predicted schedule against our planned time. So we can make adjustments before it’s too late.””

““A PPM tool that is effective AND easy-to-use can really do wonders to a product organization.””

“Nium has a distributed team across multiple continents and countries. The visibility across products, teams, and locations was key to keep the product and business running.”

“When we started to build more shared services to speed up product delivery, work could no longer be done by one team […] This made coordinating inter-team dependencies essential.”