How do I view all projects with associated timelines for both software and work management?

Question

Hi there. I'm new to the Jira world (as is my company) and i have so far set up multiple projects using Work Management. I'm a business analyst/project manager hybrid so i'm contemplating whether i should actually move everything to software....but that's for another post.

I'm needing to view all projects in a list with the timelines showing start date/due date etc.
From here i'd like to be able to expand each project to view the issues.

Please can someone shed any light on how to do this? Everything i see is for software, not work management, or a mixture so i'm feeling rather lost.

Thank you,

L

Lauren Kirt · Answer

@Trudy P Claspill

Thank you for your response.

We currently have most of our business projects set up as work management projects - i'm only just starting to look into software projects. It seems there's really not a lot of info regarding work management on the net so i'll have to dig deeper somehow.

Thank you anyway,

Lauren

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Lauren Kirt

Welcome to the community.

The short answer is that what you are looking for is not natively available in Jira.

Jira Projects don't inherently have start dates and due dates. Those are attributes of issues stored within project. One might infer a start date and due date for a Project based on the values stored in the issues within that project.

For Jira Software when something like that is needed there are a couple of ways to go about it.

1. With the Standard subscription you can use the Roadmap feature to see roadmap info for a single project at a time. In that case you could use the Epic issue type to represent a "project" and with the child issues of that Epic defining the work needed to complete the project. You can have multiple "projects" in a single Roadmap by defining each "project" as an Epic within the Jira Project.

2. With the Premium subscription you can use the Advanced Roadmaps feature to view roadmap information from multiple Jira Projects within one roadmap. In that scenario teams will often also expand the issue hierarchy to include an issue above Epics which is used to represent a "project/initiative". Then Epics are defined as children of that new issue type, and Epics have child issues under them, and the start and end date info is rolled up to the "project/initiative" issue for visualization in the roadmap.

The Roadmap/Advanced Roadmap features apply to Software projects, not Work Management projects.

I have not read about any methods to visualize the Timelines of multiple Work Management projects in one view with drill down capabilities.