Jira Product Discovery vs. StoriesOnBoard

It's a great tool for early stage ideation and prioritization in order to get alignment across product, design, and engineering. It works really well when teams are trying to consolidate scattered ideas into one validated pipeline. The scoring model and ability to link ideas directly to our regular Jira makes it easy to prepare for roadmap views

Incentivized

As mentioned earlier, we also use StoriesOnBoard to create other processes (customer and employee journey). We use the swim lanes to differentiate between measures, tools and processes and working with them is very easy and understandable for this purpose.

Less easy is the use of context, i.e. when one part of a story map depends on another story map. This cannot be avoided (at least for us) to avoid creating redundancy (and the risk of creating different stages). At appropriate places, we refer to the other map in the title.

• Timeline view of ideas and the way you can group these into different views is fantastic.
• The ability to have connections to the main idea as sub ideas before reaching our delivery teams.
• Admin and feature controlls are great and getting even better.
• Recycling fields and goals from the other Atlassian products makes things easier to see and understand.

Incentivized

• User role management
• Jira integration
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Filtering by personas

• Advanced Reporting and Analysis: Reporting options are somewhat limited. It would be more helpful if it’s more customisable dashboards
• better Support for cross project visibility: it is challenging to see dependencies overlaps across different projects. It could’ve been improved
• More flexible roadmap customisations: Here customisation options are limited, formatting options could be improved

Incentivized

• Switching the view to a vertical mode (easier to scroll).
• Better availability of information on user story mapping.
• Possibility to link to activities and steps from other maps (Context).

Jira Product Discovery is good because it offers a lot in the way of centralising processes for bug management and its intake. However, it is not going to score higher as it has limited reporting and integration features. It also isnt setup to give updates via email to case loggers which would be really good

Incentivized

StoriesOnBoard works really well; all features are well thought through. It could look a bit fresher, although the new updated dashboard is already much better than it was.

productboard is my favorite, but that one is more Product oriented where Atlassian Jira Product Discovery seems more Dev focused so it is nice those tools compare. Azure is really nice in the UX and the way it presents the sprints and the stories in an easy manner. Atlassian Jira Product Discovery is great when creating the stories within itself and also works with productboard better than azure does currently.

Incentivized

The only other competitor we looked at was cardboardit.com. Both had solid functionality, but StoriesOnBoard was more user-friendly and quick to learn and use in our opinion.

• Shared understanding of goals has increased
• Management of large number of work items is good
• Sometimes if we dont manage it well it can get complex and people get lost.

Incentivized

• StoriesOnBoard (and story mapping in general) creates a low-cost visual method of aligning on high-level business and technical requirements early in a project and provides an ongoing reference as the project progresses. Having this alignment is critical for the later stages of the project.