Can I Add milestiones in the Timeline or List View?

[Marco Rodrigues]

As a PM I want to define a specific issue type (e.g Story ) as a milestone, so that I can follow the major achievements during a project. How can I apply that in the list view and timeline view? 

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi Marco,

So is your question how to add an Issue Type to the project? 

[Marco Rodrigues]

Hi John, 

My question is how to add milestones in a project. Can you help me with that?

[John Funk]

That depends on what you mean by milestones. That is not a built in function of the projects. How would you expect this to function? 

[Marco Rodrigues]

From my perspective I was hoping to define a specific completed task as a Milestone. Is that possible in the Timeline View?

[John Funk]

I would create an issue type called Milestone and use that. 

[Curt Holley · Accepted solution]

Based on what I'm reading here, what you want is what @John Funk alluded to in his opening question.

You should create (or arrange to have created by your Admin) an issues type called Milestone. Then you will be able to view it in any view of the JWM or Jira Software project it is added to.

In JWM, it will have to have the same workflow as everything else,

You would be able to filter your Timeline view by Issue type = Milestone to only see the Milestones etc...

[Nataliya Vasyliv_Reliex_]

Hi @Marco Rodrigues

to find a specific completed task as a Milestone you can try Activitytimeline add-on. There you can add Milestone to a timeline and use for all or for one specific project. 

[J Conners]

If Jira Work Management is meant to be a lightweight project management tool, it seems odd that milestones wouldn't be available as an issue type out of the box.

[Jane Yeoh]

Hi @Marco Rodrigues

I’m Jane, one of the Product Managers on the Jira Work Management team. We’re looking to explore Milestones in Jira Work Management and we’d love to hear your feedback on some of our design concepts.

If you’re interested, please feel free to book in a session with me in my calendar where we will be sharing prototypes for this concept: https://calendly.com/jyeoh/45min and getting a better understanding of your needs as well. 

Looking forward to chatting,

Jane

[John Funk]

Hey Jane - did you get some good feedback? 

[Jane Yeoh]

Hey @John Funk ,

We're still running these this week, but we've gotten good feedback so far, thanks for asking!

[John Funk]

Great!

[Valerie Blondel]

Hi @Jane Yeoh 

I just found this post about your exploring Milestones in Jira Work Management.  Would you mind advising if any progress ?  We wish we had the possibility to use those in the Timeline view.  Thanks beforehand, Valérie

[Jess Sherrington]

eager to see progress also!

[Bryant Eadon]

I think the best way to track a milestone is by selectign an EPIC and using this as the milestone.  Or, Version.

This avoids adding additional junk to JIRA.  

Additionally, advanced JIRA features add higher level concepts to which I believe may have higher-level cross-project tracking you might want.

[Adam _SoftwarePlant_]

Hello @Marco Rodrigues 

Taking into consideration your requirements, I believe that you may want to give some of the apps from the Atlassian marketplace a try - like BigPicture/BigGantt for example, developed by Softwareplant (A company I am also a part of). Those will help you organize your work better, manage your work across multiple Jira projects on one screen, and also use the mentioned Milestones functionality so that you can easily track those important moments in your project:

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Adam

[Maria]

Hi @Marco Rodrigues 
Just in case you're open to trying add-ons, on behalf of the Planyway team I'd like to recommend Planyway. You can add Milestones to your projects and see them across multiple projects on one timeline in Planyway. If any questions, I'm here to help.