How can i define milestones with JIRA Portfolio

[Naama Lev]

Hello Experts, 

we are currently evaluating Portfolio, 

We would like to manage product implementation projects, and for that we need to define milestones

Can you please advise how can I define them in Portfolio?

Thanks

Naama

[Jamie Cole · Accepted solution]

Your milestones are effectively your release dates, you could create epics for certain stages of your project and assign these to releases which match your milestone dates.

[Glenn Clapp]

That isn't a very good approach. There can be a lot of issues tied to a milestone in different ways including:

• Cannot start until the date
• Milestone cannot be met unless issues are accepted

Those "stakes in the ground" can be moved independently of other works and may or may not impact a release. They may be a date that a tool arrives from a 3rd party or almost any other thing, and there can be many of these special dates in a release cycle. 

I can see that using releases can do some of the same thing, but conceptually it is better to keep a "release" with a specific meaning and a milestone with its own specific meaning and not muddy them together. 

[Jeff Smith]

Just some examples of dates("milestones") that are not releases.... feature/code freeze, trade show dates, scheduled maintenance on environments... to work around things, you have to be able to see them alongside your release schedule. 

[David Leal]

It is just to add in the Gantt view similar to today´s day a vertical line for specific milestones indicating the iD or the name as a visual representation of the milestones. In 2014 it was posted the following suggestion with 125 votes: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JPOSERVER-71

[PM]

Please solve this issue and enable milestone visualization and add suitable features as requested with ticket  JPOSERVER-2825. I really don´t understand how a tool can be called advanced roadmap without adding the possibility to visualize milestones. At least it should be possible to show naming of the fix versions/releases, create abbreviation of the name and blend in/out milestones as needed.

[Phil]

Hi, has this matter been solved? Any other suggestion, how to add milestones in Portfolio without using releases? Thanks in advance :)

[Glenn Clapp]

I do not see that it has been resolved. Key dates and milestones within a release are a useful mechanism. 

[Allister Scicluna]

Please vote https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-20254 

[Sofiane Hassioune]

The issues is still not resolved unfortunately!

There is always a need to see dates different than release dates in a project plan.