Discussions
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How to get started with the Jira Product Discovery community group
Here are key links for where to ask questions or find resources to learn more about Jira Product Discovery (JPD): Q&A section in the community to ask questions & get help from the product team and the user community FAQ for how to use JPD, with lots of how-to instructions, demos and videos. This includes links to JPD's…
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Atlassian Product Discovery handbook
The Atlassian Product Discovery handbook is full of the hard earned lessons we gained while building JPD. There is a lot of great thought leadership content about product management out there, but we found it's often aspirational and lacking pragmatic, practical ways to get started. So @Axel Sooriah and I rolled up our…
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📣 The tree view is now generally available (Premium plan)
This feature is part of the Jira Product Discovery Premium plan. 👉 Start your trial here 👈 Note: if you're on the continuous release track you can use this now, if you're on the bundled track it will be available on the 14th of July. Other features of the plan are described here and here's an implementation guide.…
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FAQ: does Jira Product Discovery support Company-Managed Spaces? (CMS, aka CMP)
If you’re asking this question, you’re probably trying to figure out whether you can roll out JPD across your organization with the right controls in place. Can you standardize fields, enforce consistent workflows, and manage governance at scale? The answer is yes. The path just looks different from what you might be used…
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📣 Feature update: Hierarchies in Jira Product Discovery
This feature is part of the Jira Product Discovery Premium plan. 👉 Start your trial here 👈 Other features of the plan are described here and here's an implementation guide. In the Free and Standard plans, Jira Product Discovery only supports a flat model, where every idea is at the same level. As part of the Premium plan…
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📣 Product hierarchies (Connection fields) are now out of beta + updates to Custom Types
Hi everyone, Great news: we've added long awaited features to both Custom Types (e.g. configure different pinned fields, or idea creation form, per type) and product hierarchies (Connection fields) And after 6 months of iterations with many of you we're lifting the "beta" flag on the hierarchy feature, making it generally…
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📣 The tree view is now available in early access (Premium only) + updates on hierarchies
Update on 18 June 2026: We're going to roll-out this view for everyone on the Premium plan next week. Latest demo and more details here. Thank you to everyone who used it and gave us feedback, that helped a ton to make it better for everyone! Hi all, Introducing the tree view Good news! One of the most awaited features in…
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Create and read insights using your AI client (Rovo Dev, Claude, etc.)
Hi all, By popular request here are instructions so your AI client can read insights added to JPD ideas, and create new insights, using the insights API. The API is experimental but we haven't touched it in 3 years, so you could say it's pretty stable. You can just point RovoDev or Claude (we tested with these 2) to this…
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📣 Improvement: working with JPD date fields in JQL
Hi all, It's been a long time coming, but we now have proper support for JPD date fields in JQL, e.g. in search or Automation rules. Those are not your usual date fields in Jira, they are a date range: * A quarter: Jan-Mar 2026 * A month: Apr 2026 * A day: 1-Apr-2026 Technically, they are stored in a JSON formatted string,…
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📣 We've been busy! What we shipped in JPD in January-March 2026
Hi everyone! 👋 January-March was a big one for Jira Product Discovery, and we wanted to take a moment to celebrate everything we shipped together with you. We've been listening closely to your feedback across our community, support tickets, and surveys, and this quarter's releases were directly shaped by what you told us.…
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How to: manage cross-team dependencies in Jira Product Discovery (incl. Premium features)
This page articles explains how to manage cross-team dependencies in Jira Product Discovery (JPD) using connection fields on the Premium plan. It covers a model that we use at Atlassian to replace the chaotic "spaghetti" of ad-hoc dependency asks between teams and bring better visibility internally. The problem: spaghetti…
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The different types of users: creators, contributors and stakeholders
Hi everyone, Here, I'll explain the different types of users in the product, what's working today, and what we're working on. If you already know what Creators, Contributors, and Stakeholders are but can't figure out how to make them work, this post explains how to add them to a project. Jira Product Discovery editions…
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📣 A (giant) update for hierarchies, issue types, opportunity/solution trees
Hi everyone, I'm super excited to share this demo today for this concept that we've been brewing for quite some time. The #1 feature request we get for JPD is, consistently and since the early days of this app, for it to support hierarchies. We've always felt that this was going to open Pandora's box: what a lot of…
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When people change a view (e.g. filters) it is saved for everyone. Help!
Hi everyone, This is a common piece of feedback we get from you: You create a view, you share it with others, they open the view, change filters (e.g. to find a specific idea) and inadvertently save that change for everyone - and you need to go back and fix the view. You can stop this from happening in 2 clicks: * Open the…
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Product update: field descriptions in Jira Product Discovery
Hi everyone, When we implemented the beta of Jira Product Discovery we took a few shortcuts technically speaking - the dreaded technical debt! - and we're now cleaning house. As part of this there we'll sometimes need to retire features that have very low usage but are costly to maintain. Today's post is about one of them:…
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📣 By popular request: weekly granularity for the timeline view!
Hi everyone! 👋 We've got a small but mighty update to share today, and one that's been on your wishlist for a long time. Weekly granularity is now available in the timeline view 🗓️ Until now, the smallest zoom level in the JPD timeline view was two weeks. For many of you, that was just too coarse, especially for near-term…
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What are we up to? Public roadmap for Jira Product Discovery
Hi everyone! We want to thank you all for your trust, and for spending time to give us great feedback. It helps us make this product better every day. We do listen to your feedback - if you want to know more about our process for that you can watch this 30min talk+demo - and it guides our roadmap. Today we'd like to share…
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How-to guide: set up JPD for many teams with the Premium plan
In the Premium plan we’re catering for the needs of larger companies looking for a prioritisation and roadmapping solution that works across many teams. The goal of this guide is to help you understand how to approach the implementation of Jira Product Discovery to set it up successfully across multiple teams. We’re not…
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Pro-tip: reordering statuses in the status field dropdown
Hi everyone, A few of you have asked us is we could add the ability to reorder statuses in this dropdown: It never got to the top of the list. But today we discovered there was some kind of power Jira ninja move to make it work! Here it is: You need to add the "opsbar-sequence" property to each workflow transition (not the…
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Read this if you're a site administrator and just added Jira Product Discovery
Hi there, and welcome! We wanted to save you some trouble with a few things to help you get started with Jira Product Discovery. There are a couple of gotchas, so make sure to read this page before raising support tickets. We believe most of the product's "oddities" should be covered here when it comes to what site…
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Fixing Connections after renaming Types
If you renamed an idea Type in Jira Product Discovery and it was used in a Connection field, and you didn't update the connection field, it will look like the connections are gone. Don't worry! Even though you can't see the connections in the UI they're still there, they're just not visible anymore. To fix this, just…
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JPD integration with Goals and Projects (ex Atlas)
Edit: as of 1 July 2024 the integration is now available to everyone. * To turn it on: go to Project settings > Features > Atlas integration * To understand how to use it: watch the video below Also, Atlas has now graduated and goals and projects are moving into the Atlassian Platform. Customers using Atlas can keep doing…
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Deprecation notice: insight links from Pendo, Intercom and Vivun, formulas using data from links
Hi everyone, Every once in a while we look at features with very low usage and look for opportunities to retire some of them. This helps simplify the product for everyone and keep the technical debt under control, which also helps us move faster to work on new features based on what customers need and ask for. As of 10…
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💪 (Mega-)Power user features: using Zendesk/Salesforce/etc. data to prioritize
Update on 02 July 2025: due to (extremely) low usage of this feature, we have retired it. You can still add links to Salesforce and Zendesk to insights and see more data, but the ability to create formula fields aggregating data from 3rd party apps has been removed. Hi everyone, here's another set of not-well-known…
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💡 New: manage discovery tasks in JPD (needs the Premium plan)
Hi everyone! We just realised that with the new idea hierarchy feature (part of the Jira Product Discovery premium plan), we now have a simple solution to help you manage discovery tasks (tasks for product managers, designers, engineering leaders, etc.) right within discovery project. Learn more about how to use idea…
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Early Access Program: new integration with Jira Plans (ex Advanced Roadmaps)
We've started an EAP for the new integration with Jira Plans Many of you asked us how to use Jira Product Discovery alongside Jira Plans. We've been working on an integration that brings these two closer together. Update on 18 July: We've given early access to about 100 customers who asked on this post up until a few days…
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Letting contributors create ideas in a Jira Product Discovery project
Hi everyone, Previously we provided more details about how Jira Product Discovery pricing was going to work, and in particular the new user roles: creator, contributor and stakeholders - with the ability for contributors and stakeholders to create ideas. This post explains how to let contributors create ideas. How it works…
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How can we use Jira Product Discovery to collect feedback from customers and internal teams?
This is a question that comes up frequently. In this first version of Jira Product Discovery, we’ve focused on some the jobs that help a PM do their job: prioritizing ideas and opportunities, creating and sharing roadmaps that stay up to date, and capturing feedback from a bunch of different places (interview notes in…
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How does the Jira Product Discovery team work?
Hi everyone! A few of you asked how we work and how we use the product. We plan to communicate more around that in the future. In the meantime, I've recorded a Loom to take you through all this. It's a bit long (23min) but it tries to go through: * How the team is set up * The rituals we have * Where we get feedback from *…
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The relationship between Jira Product Discovery, Jira Software and Advanced Roadmaps
Edit on 5 December 2024: This post is now outdated. We recommend you do the following instead: * Read the roadmapping section of the Atlassian Product Discovery handbook * Watch this demo for how it all fits together Hi there! We often get questions about the relationship between between Jira Product Discovery and Jira…