I recently tried JPD since I was hoping it would be the answer to our woes displaying our roadmap and progress properly. However, I'm struggling with displaying delivery dates on the timeline, and also with how to map JPD concepts to our existing hierarchy.
1. I attached an existing delivery ticket from the Eng project to an existing idea. Nothing gets displayed in the timeline (grouped by Category). Is there a way to show the Delivery tickets on the timeline, under each Idea? Which fields are used for the start and end dates in the timeline? Do we need to manually add them to each idea?
2. I was conceptualizing Category as equivalent to our internal concept of "Initiative" (since the word "Project" means something else in Jira lingo). An Initiative is a major effort that spans several teams, Epics and quarters. In that case, would the Ideas be equivalent to the Epics in Jira Software? Or is it that Category maps to Epics and Ideas map to Stories?
3. Is there any concept that would map to Milestones i.e., a major "gate" during the Initiative execution that means we reached all the KPI targets up to then and it's time to move to a different stage of execution?
Honestly, all I want to do is see the progress of the work (both Epic and child Stories), on a timeline, with the ability to pivot by team/assignee and by initiative. Bonus if I can add milestones so we know if we're on track or not... without having to manually duplicate every field across tools.
We've been struggling to do this in the Software Roadmap view, and I fear that while JPD looks very promising it may not be the answer... Thank you.