Can I use roadmap without scrum or kanban board?

[Mark Striebeck]

We want to use roadmaps to coordinate our various teams (software engineering, partnerships...) Mostly to identify and manage dependencies and milestones.

My team is managing our iterations outside of Jira and wants to continue to do so.

Is there a way to enable the roadmap view for epics without creating a kanban or scrum board?

Thanks

     Mark

[Pramodh M · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mark Striebeck 

Welcome to the Community!!

For company-managed projects, a Roadmap is an integral part of the Board. Without Board Roadmap can't exist.

Now If we are talking about Advanced Roadmaps, you can disable the Board and use roadmap feature

The same goes for team-managed projects as well

Thanks,
Pramodh

[Mark Striebeck]

Thanks for the super quick response Pramodh!

... I'm still fairly new to Jira, so please bear with me.

We are using the Premium Cloud version of Jira. So, if I understand correctly "Advanced Roadmaps" should be part of our subscription.

How do I enable "Advanced Roadmaps"?

Thanks again!

     Mark

[Pramodh M]

Hi @Mark Striebeck 

Creating a New Plan would land you in Advanced Roadmaps section

Choose the Issue Source, since you are going with board it will be either filter or project

Thanks,
Pramodh

[John Funk]

Hi Mark - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Not real sure why you would do that as the board and roadmaps are integrated. There are much better roadmap tools than Jira's if you aren't using boards and sprints inside Jira. 

However, you might try creating a board in Jira and then create your Roadmap from inside the board. Then see if you can modify the roadmap independently after it is created. 

Also, your Epics would need to be in Jira anyway - so now you are having to maintain two different systems for the same objects and do double work. 

[Mark Striebeck]

Some teams in our company want to use Jira for the iteration-level planning and execution, but we don't. So, we are trying to bridge this and support both use cases.

I want to put our epics into Jira and manage them there - and map them manually to our tasks and iteration planning.

     Mark

[John Funk]

seems like a lot of extra work - but knock yourself out.  :-)