Create manageable milestones for project for tracking at the Leadership level

[Smitha Joseph]

How can I create manageable milestones for my project for tracking at the Leadership level. Need milestones to publish to Leadership for management and tracking purposes.

[Benjamin Jurg]

There is a new Atlassian feature in beta called goals which might be the thing you are looking for. We are piloting that feature right now.

Another solution would be to have a dedicated page for each milestone and use the combination of page property and page property report where the milestone page contains a page property table with fields like name of the milestone, date of the milestone and status (on track or not).

Finally, another option is to have a specific Jira project for the milestones where you can maintain the status tracking at that specific Jira issue.

[Smitha Joseph]

Thank you @Benjamin Jurg for your answer. Would there be a video which I can refer to for using this approach as it would be easier to try.

[Benjamin Jurg]

Which of the options are you most interested in?

Here my 2 cents considering the options:

Goals:

+ Dedicated for this purpose.

- New/beta thus unproven and has some beta-bugs.

Confluence pages:

+ Allows free format adding specific details to each milestone.

- Status tracking of the milestones is all manual.

Jira project:

+ Allows advanced status tracking.

- Adding more details is not that comfortable.

Depending on the organization style (some companies are very strongly Jira oriented, others more confluence oriented) that could influence the decision making too.

[Smitha Joseph]

@Benjamin Jurg The approach: "Another solution would be to have a dedicated page for each milestone and use the combination of page property and page property report where the milestone page contains a page property table with fields like name of the milestone, date of the milestone and status (on track or not)." sounds good and I was looking for more insight to follow this approach. 

[Benjamin Jurg]

I use that combination a lot, personally more of a Confluence oriented guy ;).

Here a very informative article by Atlassian: https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-page-properties-macro/.

Also a very nice youtube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiJ43YlminU

Hope it helps.