Syngenta Product Management Standardized with ProductPlan

Syngenta, a major agricultural tech company headquartered in Switzerland with employees in more than 100 countries, faced challenges in achieving synergy across its diverse, increasingly large organization. The company had no standardized process for product management and found its tools for planning and roadmapping to be lacking. Without an effective tool, product teams could not share roadmaps to help stakeholders understand their initiatives.

Syngenta identified the following criteria as essential for its ideal solution: a digital platform with single sign-on, integration with Jira, and sharing capabilities. The solution came from within: Strider, a Syngenta acquisition, had already found success with ProductPlan. An internal product manager spearheaded the rollout and adoption of ProductPlan across Syngenta at large, providing its teams with a common, standardized digital solution.

ProductPlan has become the common source of product management for Syngenta, standardizing its processes across global teams. The platform has improved Syngenta’s internal transparency and communication; leaders and team members can instantly access product managers’ roadmaps and see what their next 12 months of work look like, as well as their backlogs. Further, the ability to roll roadmaps into portfolio views has been a critical feature for Syngenta.