An effective project roadmap keeps stakeholders aligned and helps you see potential roadblocks. But, they are not always easy to create for collaborators or clients.
Luckily, these tips (and tools like Visor) can help you create Jira roadmaps with milestones that make your life easier and drive alignment.
Ensuring all issues (or at least parent issues) have rough due dates is crucial in creating your Jira roadmap.
Providing a rough timeline helps you communicate internally and externally to stakeholders, clarify expectations, and set clear deadlines for your most important deliverables. Setting due dates is one simple habit that help you prioritize, pivot, and change plans as needed.
Breaking your main deliverables for a project into epics in Jira helps you set dates and prioritize and enhances the readability of your roadmap. While you may know the intricacies of your project inside and out, external stakeholders need to get a clear grasp of what’s coming and when. Breaking critical parts of your project into Epics allows you to present the “big picture” while leaving room to drill down in the child issues.
Adding some color coding to your roadmap is not only visually pleasing; science has proven that adding color ensures that the information you’re presenting sticks with people.
Adding color also allows you to leave less room for confusion or miscommunication down the line. Milestones also help make project data in a roadmap FAR clearer for stakeholders.
Projects are constantly changing and evolving, so your roadmap must be just as flexible as you are. Tools like Visor can use your Jira data to create a roadmap with a few button clicks, saving you time and doing the heavy lifting for you. Visor also communicates with Jira so that any updates you make to your project in Jira sync over to Visor (and vice versa).
You can make your Jira syncing a one-way sync or a two-way sync.
It’s hard being the only person with the keys to the kingdom. Presenting your roadmap in a way that is easily shareable not only aids with communication but it can also help take some of the weight off the project manager and prevent roadblocks in the future.
No one knows the value of time like people managing complex projects, and your roadmap should feel like an asset instead of a burden. Lighten the lift with Visor and try it for free today!
Becky Brooks - Visor for Jira
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