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 is generally available and has three editions:
The Free plan has up to 3 free Creators and unlimited* Contributors and Stakeholders (I'll explain these roles in more depth below).
The Standard plan has unlimited* creators, contributors, and stakeholders. Creators are licensed users un Jira Product Discovery. Contributors are project members with a dedicated role and are free. Stakeholders are not project members, don't need a role, and are free.
Note: there is a limit to the number of users you can add to Jira on a site. Whenever we mention “unlimited users” in the rest of this post, it should read “unlimited up until you reach the limit of 35k Jira users on the site”.
Watch this demo video to learn about creator and contributor roles (2min)
ℹ️ Creators need a Jira Product Discovery license.
Creators can access all features of Jira Product Discovery. These folks are the ones who run the prioritization process, share roadmaps, it should read ideas, and so on.
Typically, product managers, some designers, some researchers, and parts of the engineering team.
They can do everything in Jira Product Discovery and are only limited by the permissions they're granted for each project.
A view seen from the Creator's perspective
ℹ️ Contributors don't need a Jira license but must be added to the site's user base. If they already have a Jira license for any Jira product, they'll be Contributors by default; if they don't, you'll just need to grant them the "Contributor" Product role in the Admin hub.
Creators invite Contributors to collaborate in Jira Product Discovery. Contributors are people who get a full view of how the roadmap gets prioritized and why:
Typically, contributors are the extended product team: all engineers, all designers, all researchers, all product managers
They can see all views in the project in Jira Product Discovery but can only perform contributor actions (comment, vote, add insights, add reactions) and can submit ideas if a Creator allow it.
A view seen from a Contributor's perspective
If the feature is turned on for them, Contributors can create ideas in a Jira Product Discovery project via a configurable form but not edit them. More details in this post.
ℹ️ Stakeholders don't need any Jira license, are not project members, and just need a free Atlassian account
Creators can share individual views, like their roadmap, with their stakeholders.
Typically, these are people from leadership, sales, support, customer success, some customers, and partners. They are basically people who are not typically in Jira or the project and wouldn't know how to use it.
They can’t open the project in Jira, they can't see any other view than the one published to them. This is for when you want to share a single view only, for example, your roadmap. Creators publish a view to a stakeholder, allowing them to see this view only, and won't be able to navigate/browse around your project.
A published view seen from a stakeholder's perspective
Tanguy Crusson
Product @ Atlassian
Atlassian
Nice, France
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