Jira Product Discovery and FixVersion Releases

[Aaron Mosny]

@Tanguy Crusson Has any thought been put into how to mesh Jira FixVersions with JPD ideas? 

The way that our company is using ideas is that they start as an opportunity we want to solve for and then ends up becoming the actual deliverable for the engineering team.

It would be great to understand along side the delivery view which FixVersions are delivering against the idea.

[Bob Ouellette]

Agreed!

[Jake Copeland]

Our company is wanting to do this as well @Aaron Mosny I currently have an automation set up to update a field on ideas that have a delivery ticket linked to them in our engineering project. There's no good way to do this currently by copying the field value so I dump it into a short text field on the ideas. Here's the basic structure of my automation:

When Value changes for Fix Versions

For Linked Issues with Types: is implemented by, implements

Then Edit issue fields *

* You have to use advanced field editing with something to the tune of this: 

{
"fields": {
"Associated Versions (this is your field name to put into)": "{{#triggerissue.latest.fixVersions}}{{name}}{{/}}"
}
}

[Deleted user]

I feel like this is what I was looking for and I'm getting close but I keep getting an error "(data was not an array (versions))"

Would you have any idea on a fix? Versions is a short text field as suggested

{
"fields": {
"Versions": "{{#triggerissue.latest.fixVersions}}{{name}}{{/}}"
}
}

[Kei Hau]

Is there a way to add more versions after an existing one is already in the short text field?

[Tanguy Crusson]

Thanks for the feedback @Aaron Mosny . We're currently reviewing how the integration with Jira Software works. We're starting with fixing a bunch of issues in terms of how it scales first though - so we won't get to things like this in the short term yet. 

[Aaron Mosny]

Thanks for the follow-up. Look forward to the integration work!

[Johan Lejdung]

Thanks for the reply! What would be a realistic timeline?

[Johan Lejdung]

@Tanguy Crusson do you have an update on this? It's been ~7 months since the last interaction with you. 

[Pierre Örnryd]

Any update? It kind of destroys the flow if we can't connect these to the releases..

[Jim McCarrick]

@Tanguy Crusson Jira Software issue -> Jira Product Discovery Idea fix version(s) integration should have been available/configurable in the Idea Delivery tab with the initial rollout of Jira Product Discovery.

Nearly two years after the start of this discussion, there is no apparent progress.

When can we expect the integration to be implemented?

[Pierre Örnryd]

I'd say this is the biggest obstacle to getting the production flow working for us right now. 

[Michael Spiceland]

We'd be very interested in this also.

We currently modify the FixVersion for what release we plan for something to be delivered in. While we can manually make sure that when we update the FixVersion for an epic we also update the delivery tickets linked to the Jira Product Discovery issue, it would be helpful if there was a cleaner way.

I don't have a suggestion for the best way for this to work.  Perhaps that's why this hasn't been addressed yet :-) 

[Yazan Masafah]

Without this feature, release planning is not something you can do with JPD. We have to rely on other tools like Aha! to plan and manage releases at the product/feature level not at the code level. 

I strongly support adding this feature to JPD.

[Johan Lejdung]

I fully agree. The way we work is that at the end of an Idea's life, we create Jira delivery tickets, which are then planned for releases. 

This flow is causing a lot of confusion amongst stakeholders and involved parties as they track product augmentation through PD, but in order to figure out when they are released they must understand the individual user story and development tickets and find out where they are tagged as a release. This makes release planning impossible with JPD and has caused a lot of frustrations. 

Given that the delivery tickets are already linked, and they contain the fixVersion. I think it would be very helpful to get a rundown on each PD Idea of which releases the delivery tickets are allocated to and the % allocation that is released already as well as allocation per release (since delivery tickets can be part of multiple releases).

This would be one of the last bridges we'd need to make PD fully capable as a Product Augmentation tool towards stakeholders and other involved parties.

[Mark Hankins]

+1 for this as a feature request.

Seems like a bit of an oversight that this is not included from the outset TBH?

Step back and think about how projects work...product discovery does not result in fixed deliveries, they're most commonly agile.

This means that as new data comes in, ideas change.  When this is already mapped to a delivery ticket, you're creating a fixed dependency for something that isn't fixed.

Atlassian, you need to introduce versioning into JPD so it actually matches how people work, otherwise you're forcing people away from your product suite when, in fact, this should be basic functionality.

[Sean OToole]

Looking for this s well.