Visualize Roadmap

Question

Jira provides a nice list of upcoming versions in the Roadmap Gadget. Is there a way to show the timeline graphically, and not as a list? If not possible in Jira, how would I construct a query to extract the same information in Excel that are shown in the Roadmap Gadget. (The gadget itself doesn't seem to provide an export feature)

Jens Lippmann · Answer

The tool dropped my first reply during login so let me try again (now in an even more foul mood :-) )

Jira does very well in managing single issues - very elaborate schemes, and schemes of schemes, but it falls short for multi-project/multi-release management:

* Project templates, e.g., a project scheme that would provide a set of default issues every time a new project gets created instead of manual creating or cloning them
* Version templates, so default issues for each version don't need to be created manually
* Version scheme, so versions could be created once for all projects associated with that scheme instead of manually entering them into each project
* Version graph with major milestones of each release - Gantt
* Project graph for major milestones (key tasks) - Gantt (Greenhopper made huge progress with its improved Epic based planning, and such a graph could be associated with Epics for example

The information is all there somewhere but it seems Atlassian doesn't like to think of Jira as such a tool.

So as you see, I don't think there are more than enough features, there are not enough to make my life easier.

Jason Turner · Answer

This true.  Power Point here I come :)

Thanks.

Colin Goudie · Answer

Interesting idea but I don't think there are too many options already available. So when you say graphically are you meaning a horizontal timeline with drop points for the releases? Similar to what you get on the created/resolved chart?