Ducalis

Product teams that struggle to decide what to build next can use Ducalis to gather requests, score the backlog and tell users when something ships. It runs beside the issue tracker a team already uses, and the company packages these jobs together as a single suite of five product management tools.

Scoring the backlog with a chosen framework

Ducalis supports RICE and WSJF prioritization, or a team can build its own scoring framework. Teammates can add their opinions through asynchronous evaluation, a form of estimation poker that does not need everyone in the same meeting. The tool also helps estimate the size of jobs.

Staying in step with the task tracker

A two-way sync is described as taking under three minutes to set up. Tasks, sub-tasks and custom fields flow from the tracker into Ducalis, and priority scores, estimates and user upvotes flow back. Updates in the tracker appear without page reloads, so the team no longer copies lists into spreadsheets. Several trackers can be combined for end-to-end prioritization, and Ducalis names Jira, Linear and ClickUp as integrations. It connects to Jira Server behind a firewall even on a free plan, and tasks can be created inside Ducalis and pushed back to the tracker.

Listening to users

Feedback from users and teammates is collected and organized in one place and linked to backlog items, so the team knows who the next feature is for. A public roadmap can be shared, matched with backlog items, and voted on by users, and the team can vote on behalf of users who report requests elsewhere.

Telling users what changed

Shipped tasks can be turned into changelog emails sent automatically, and an in-app widget keeps users informed about new features. The company says a free account has no credit card, no time limit and unlimited users.