Craft.io Features

It feels like a product tool created by product people. The product is easy to use and no problems to integrate with Jira. Setting things up to how I want was simple enough and the broad range of features. Road mapping is pretty dynamic and easy to switch views subject to audience. It's great value for money in relation to others.

Whilst the road mapping part is very good, cosmetically it is weaker than others (like Productboard or Airfocus). OKR management is a bit limited currently. Setting them up and connecting them is totally fine but I'd like to see better visibility on how well (or not) they are being achieved.

Iteration planning is where I spend most of my time in craft and that feature works very well.

Client sharing is a little complicated but we make it work.

- Allows me to capture all the documents I need from 1) feature prioritization, 2) discovery, 3) design, 4) User testing all in one place. (Also supports implementation but we still use Pivotal Tracker for that.) - Very natural feeling interface, particularly once you learn how the story attributes (theme, epic, story type, version, sprint, team, and worker) work in the interface. - Allows stories to be assigned to different teams (and sprints for each team) for different stages of development (prioritization, discovery, design, user testing, etc.) is awesome - The kanban boards are well designed and implemented

- It's still an early stage product so some of the features are incomplete and I occasionally run into bugs. That said, they are really responsive with bug fixes and feature requests. - Some features I would like, for instance, having kanban boards contain stories and tasks from multiple products, aren't yet available. (It's on the roadmap) - The roadmap diagram feature is weak. (It's slated for improvement.)

It's fast to create tasks and the drag & drop system is easy to navigate.

The unique terminology--it's hard to figure out what a simple project, milestone or task is when they call it epic, story, etc.

Easy to organise stories in story map with Feature and Topic levels above Epics

Some features which seem basic are not there, like uploading stories, or exporting story details in csv.

The reporting functionality is great and is just what we needed

We have seen a few bugs/ issues so far, but the support team at craft have been very responsive

The visual user story view is a game changer. Most tools place emphasis on plan and build, but Craft excels and wrangling in the mountain of spreadsheets and docs in the discovery phase. This tool ensures shared understanding with the entire team, arguably the most critical aspect to a successful product launch. Oh, and yes, it does push and integrate with Jira with two-way sync. So there is little reason to not give this tool a go. Last thing I'll say, the tool is beautifully designed and so intuitive and easy to use. For that alone I'm a fan.

Although they're constantly working on the product, I'm eager to have a mobile companion app as part of the offering.

Thanks for your review!

Craft.io is a clean space to organize ideas and features of a new product. It comes with good tools/ideas : Story Mapping, Story ordering, PDF generation

The good ideas of Craft is not well served the app model. Some strict choices (like Theme/Epic/Story) can be blocking points when the projet organisation isn't Craft compatible. The good ideas of Craft is not well served by the app UI. It's often difficult to find the good action link, the place of a feature used yesterday.

- Incredible UI/UX - Good support

Poor number of integrations with other platforms and tools

Thanks, George!

The product is very well aligned with the product management needs, covering the entire lifecycle from user feedbacks to work and releases planning.

The interface, although very well designed, requires a little time to get used to the workflow that the tool offers.

The insight & roadmap part, the features are useful so I don’t have to shift between slides, spreadsheet, and other files

Also the insights part, there’s some features that I need which is still not there. I hope there’ll be added soon

Ease of Use Different Views including kanban(board), timeline Story Boards Being Agile

Navigation inside product roadmap. It would be great if UX is enhanced

I love that I can use it from the start of a product strategy till managing and releasing. It helps with the full cycle of managing a product.

Since we are an independent product studio, I'd love for Craft to create a way where we can add client accounts (free) so they can add their comments and only view certain aspects of the product management effort.

Craft is the most comprehensive solution available. It is the only one I have found that offers a full range of product development tracking from early ideation through production and testing. It is also a beautifully designed peice of software that is clean, modern, and a joy to use.

Craft is young and so I still run into some glitches that makes it not work the way it is intended; however it is clearly being actively improved so fixes are always on the way.

I liked how the idea management feature is set up to get approval before being moved to a feature stage.

I didn't like how complicated it was to use features like scheduling or adding additional tags to an input.

Has all the features that I would want in a Product Management tool: Sprint planning, Idea backlog, and charting

It is a bit too expensive and the UI is not intuitive. I got really frustrated clicking around trying to figure out how to move from screen to screen.