Hi folks,
I've been using Jira (software/core/service desk) for a few years now and I'm looking at how we can use advanced Roadmaps to help a leadership team manage their OKR's
One of the senior team pointed me to this which I've read before, but it was good to see we're on the same page.
https://www.atlassian.com/agile/project-management/epics-stories-themes
Advanced roadmaps don't seem to have 'Themes' though - am I missing something?
I believe this article explains what happened to them: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Advanced-Roadmaps-questions/Are-Themes-available-in-Advanced-Roadmap/qaq-p/1470633
I would quite like to be able to group and view work items by 'Themes' - I'm thinking we can just use 'components' to tag Epics. Can anyone see any glaring problems with that and/or offer us some pointers on the use case?
Many Thanks in advance
This helps a lot, thanks very much for taking the time to explain the background for me.
I'm going to explore Advanced Roadmaps some more but I'll try the live plans interface, I did read about it.
It's a shame that reporting based on custom fields didn't make it in to the release but fingers crossed for a future release!
Definitely keen to see this feature come to life. Themes where we have a many to many relationship would be a big help.
Looks like you can group by Components - and you could use components instead of a custom field, right? Or is "grouping" not the same intent as you have with reporting?
Thanks for the explanation Dave. The ability to have reporting similar to Themes at the Component or Custom Field level will certainly be useful.
Just looking at Cloud version - reading this thread, wondering if you made Strategic Themes the highest level issue type and linked your initiatives and features if that would help with grouping. Have not played around to know if this would work...
I would also really like to see Themes in Advanced Roadmaps. We look at features by origin, like Enhancement Requests, Strategic Initiatives, Competitive Gaps, etc. This does not always line up with the hierarchy we use for roadmaps. It would be great if we can report on it independently.
Why should you not use labels for this? You can also group on the labels in the Advanced Roadmap
If Themes are not available anymore, it would be really useful to be able to group by custom fields b/c using Labels as suggested above could be confusing. and I suppose we can build our own report using the custom fields which would replace the old Theme's report.
We could also use the themes functionality with many to one on an issue. It would be great to have this for advanced roadmap planning and not have to add a custom field to every issue type screen.