How to group/nest ideas?

[Baptiste Picard]

How is it possible to group ideas together or even create some sub-ideas?

We have some overarching ideas and different areas of the product where it would apply or different types of solutions we could bring. I was thinking or creating "sub-ideas" but that isn't available, or at least a way to link ideas with a parent/child relationship.

thanks!

Baptiste

[Tanguy Crusson · Accepted solution]

Hi @Baptiste Picard

Jira Product Discovery doesn't support issue hierarchies yet (parent-child or other) yet - it's something we have on the roadmap though.

Depending on what you want to do exactly there might be a way to do it in the app though, because of the pretty flexible fields and views system. 

Here's a demo for that

[Tanguy Crusson]

By the way if you want I can give you access to this project if you want to check out its configuration

[Baptiste Picard]

that helps a lot! thanks

[Baptiste Picard]

it would also be super helpful to have direct access to this project, much appreciated

[Tanguy Crusson]

I just re-created this project to show you how to do this from scratch:

Video demo

I also invited you to the project (check your email) so you can have a look.

[Kalina Lipinska]

The demo is really great! exactly the solution I was looking for, trying to create an opportunity-solution tree-like overview in JPD. 

Still, having the option to add children will be a huge improvement, but I can already move on using this solution, tnx @Tanguy Crusson ! 

[Tanguy Crusson]

Thanks @Kalina Lipinska ! I saw your feedback and was about to send you that. 

[Adam Thede]

Thanks for these videos. Unfortunately, it only creates the appearance of hierarchy and is harder to maintain. I hope true hierarchy is coming soon, as I'm not sure I can justify using JPD in our org until then.

[James Doyle]

Hi @Tanguy Crusson are you able to advise where the idea parent/child feature sits on your roadmap? 

We have lots of ideas which sit within the same product area and this would be a really useful feature to have an overarching idea which has child idea's linked. 

Many thanks, James. 

[Tanguy Crusson]

Hi @James Doyle , it's high on the priority list but we have a number of things in flight now that will take a few months to land before we can get to it. 

However we're not going to build a "parent/child" solution that looks like the Jira Software one. It's going to optimize for things like "opportunity/solution" or "problem/solution" - less hierarchical, more about defining and visualizing relationships. 

[Didier Gasté]

Hi @Tanguy Crusson, any update on this topic? 

Thank you!

[Mike Hughes]

Fantastic, because atm we are using the Linked issue feature top reflect the dependency (ie. the Opportunity issue has a Linked Issue to another Opportunity).

But in the Opportunities table in JPD, you can add a Column for Linked issues but it just lists the number of linked issues.

So a more "not like Jira" and as mentioned:

... optimize for things like "opportunity/solution" or "problem/solution" - less hierarchical, more about defining and visualizing relationships. 

Sounds like a much better solution for JPD.

[Adam Thede]

@Tanguy Crusson any update on this?

While I'm eager to try this new feature, I must say that it's disappointing to hear that it's still not going to be a hierarchy, like Jira proper. I expect the new feature will be useful but will not fully resolve the organization problems that led to this request.

[Helena Jeret-Mäe]

Are there any plans on  adding the functionality to build a tree structure out of the discovery results? Like the OST by Teresa Torres.

I hate flat lists. They do nothing to to show relationships and context properly. And you did add whiteboards to confluence, so.... how hard can it be? :D

[Sandra Juras]

Hi! Just stumbled upon this and was wondering if this is going to ship anytime soon as the original question is already 2 years old? Any updates on this @Tanguy Crusson? Really looking forward to having this available!

[Issam AGLAN]

Hi Tanguy,

I might also be interested in having access to the project. 

Thanks

Issam

[Brent Johnson]

Interested in this as well. Thanks for posting @Baptiste Picard