Use of dates in JPD is not straight forward

[Bryan Casey]

Ignore question below.
I have completed further research and understand that Plans is for Jira and not JPD. Also, I understand that Roadmaps can be used, but I need a Global Date field.
Possibly the point I am trying to get across, is that using timelines is more complex than it needs to be.


I’m struggling to understand how dates in JPD translate into program-level timeline roadmaps in Jira Plans or Jira Roadmaps.

I’ve set up separate JPD spaces across the business (e.g. Product, Science, Research), primarily to organise work into timeline-style roadmaps. The challenge is that I now want to bring these together into a single, consolidated view using Jira Plans or Jira Roadmaps.

However, it seems to require creating Jira delivery tickets to make this work, and that’s where the model breaks for me. I’m not at the stage of committing work into delivery, I’m trying to evaluate plans, decide on priorities, and agree what should move into delivery.

This feels like it should be a simple use case, but I am going in circles - What am I missing please?

[Tanguy Crusson · Accepted solution]

Hi Bryan, the way we've designed the system to work is:

• You define your product hierarchy in JPD, e.g. Opportunity > Solution > Feature
• You define your work hierarchy in Jira, e.g. Initiative > Epic > Task
• You connect the last level of your idea hierarchy to the top level of your work hierarchy, e.g. Feature <> Initiative
• You configure your dates in JPD to be overriden by Jira when there's a linked initiative.

In JPD you see:

• Opportunity > Solution > Feature (50% done, 25% in progress), starts on 1 April, Finishes at the end of May (<-- date coming from Jira)

In Jira Plans, you can group the plan by the Idea field to see: 

• Feature > Initiative > Epic > Task

For more information: from the FAQ: 

How do I use Jira Product Discovery and Jira Plans together?

See this section of the Atlassian Product Discovery handbook.

And a 12min Loom that explains how to use them together.