track all roadmap milestones - which are features (Epics) across multiple JIRA projects

[Rajal Shah]

Hello - I have a roadmap for the company with clear milestones with dates.. I have all product features created as Epics.. and a group of Epics are to be delivered in each of these milestones.

The Epics are created in the JIRA project of the team that is working on it. We have many team projects..

The question is how can I setup these milestones?

One option is to use fixVersion for milestones - where I can specify the release dates for it and track its progress (adjust due date it late etc.).. However, fixVersion does not propagate across JIRA projects and our milestones have a list of Epics across the projects..

Another option is to create a global JIRA field for Roadmap Milestones (or could be a Component) and track it that way, though we lose the fixVersion style attribute which has a release date and shows all the features included in it natively.

A third - and probably the most practical - approach is to create a Roadmap project and have only one issue type of Milestones and use the linked from/by features to take all the Features to that milestone issue.. Use the standard JIRA due date field for the release date of those milestones and just create a full view of deliverables from this linking..

We use JIRA Structure for our execution reviews and do not use JIRA Plans or Advanced Roadmaps..