Tom Sawyer Planning, part of the Tom Sawyer Digital Engineering product suite, is a visual planning application for defining and managing strategic initiatives, products, features, releases, teams, and their dependencies within a shared planning model. Unlike conventional planning tools that rely primarily on linear Gantt charts, Tom Sawyer Planning uses powerful graph and data visualization and analysis to show complex plans as interconnected, nested drawings that reveal hierarchy, flow, and dependency relationships.
Tom Sawyer Planning gives product managers, program leads, and project teams greater visibility into complex plans so they can understand dependencies, coordinate work, assess change impacts, and make better-informed planning decisions.
Tom Sawyer Planning enables complex planning for dependency and change-impact analysis.
The Product view provides structured feature planning
Add products and nested features, capture high-level effort estimates, create upstream and downstream dependencies, and organize features within the planning hierarchy.
Quickly build and refine plans while maintaining the relationships among planning elements.
The Team view provides team and resource coordination
Define teams and assign features to the teams responsible for delivering them.
Visualizing work by team helps you understand ownership, identify dependencies that cross team boundaries, and evaluate how changes to the plan may affect other teams.
The Release view provides release-oriented planning
Create releases and assign products and individual features to them.
A dedicated release view makes it easier to understand what is planned for each release, see relationships across release boundaries, and adjust timing and assignments as priorities change.
