I rely on the Projects gadget to navigate projects quickly and easily. The Issue Statistics gadget is not a replacement. Please offer a better solution.
I'll weigh in to say I'm also disappointed that Jira Road Map is going away without providing a gadget that provides the same information. Explaining how to find the information, along with a bunch of information I don't need, in a completely different format is not an alternative.
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October 17, 2024 edited
Hi @Jimmy Here to clarify that we are planning to deprecate the Projects gadget from Jira Dashboards, not your projects' data or the feature. Your individual projects will remain with all their content. If you are interested in chatting further feel free to book in time at this link: AMER / EMEA: https://calendly.com/ehilton-atlassian/45-minute-meeting-with-atlassian
It is very disappointing that the Road map gadget is going away. I use this daily with my team to review upcoming releases and the "alternative replacements" as others have said are not alternatives. It is very disappointing that this decision was made.
Why is the heatmap being removed. We use it frequently to dive deeper into issues in our environment. This gadget is very useful and I would like a real alternative. None of the other gadgets seem to do what this does and honestly I don't care about additional support for something that is already coded and functional.
The Jira Roadmap is one of the most useful gadgets for reviewing all the releases planned for a specific duration. Even if we have the features outlined in a timeline, would this serve as a satisfactory alternative to the Jira Roadmap?
I see lot of comments from people about the something. But I don't find any response from JIRA.
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October 18, 2024 edited
We hear your concerns and are committed to continuing the discussion around these gadgets. We have decided to extend the timeline to May 2025. As a result, the functionality of the five gadgets (Jira Road Map, Bubble Chart, Heat Map, Projects, and Labels) will remain available until then.
The extended timeline allows us to provide more updates in the coming months and consider your feedback as we build new cross-product dashboard experiences.
For more details on this timeline as well as clarification on some frequently asked questions, please see our new blog.
The projects gadget is critical for our application of Jira to allow users to easily select from a set of similar projects. Please reconsider removing it. It would be detrimental to our user's experience.
@Ella Hilton , Thank you for postponing the deprecation of the JIRA gadgets to May 2025.
I want to request that by then, we have alternative gadgets with similar functionality to the original, especially the JIRA Roadmap gadget, available for us to experiment with ahead of time. This Roadmap gadget is critical to our company's operation. Please ensure that we have enough time to move on to the replacement gadget.
@Ella Hilton why should customers waste time with Atlassian product managers explaining value they already have clearly explained in the many comments here?
Discontinuing Jira Road Map Gadget is really bad news. It is perfect to get a quick overview about what is done or still to do for the next version before release. Atlassian is retiring one of the best gadgets for Jira!
We also use the JIRA Road Map gadget to get an overview of all upcoming releases. The proposed alternatives do not give the same result at all. We also use the Projects gadget to group projects and have shortcuts to access project issues. And no alternative either! It is difficult to understand this regression
It's difficult to understand the rationale here. Being able to report on and visualize tickets in ways relevant to how you use them is one of the fundamental value additions provided by Jira. Is it that difficult for a company with probably thousands of engineers to manage to maintain already-written widgets which likely consist of a few hundred lines of HTML and JQL? It feels like there's too much of a lack of competition in this space. Trello owned by Atlassian? Where are anti-trust regulators in these less-visible business-facing industries?
@Adrian Robert There's a lot of viable competition to Jira out there, the problem is that making the switch in an enterprise setting is so daunting from a procurement, change management and training perspective that you're basically locked in
@Michael.Gaskin good to hear (despite barriers to switch like other closed high-investment ecosystems), though I only know of Trello (bought by Atlassian) and Rally (CA, now Broadcom) which is quite niche and not a priority AFAICT for Broadcom.
I have a funny feeling Atlassian are asking their AI for improvement suggestions !
The rational for this thought is that no rational business mind would say that the changes are good ones, especially when you are raising the costs of utlising the service,
If this is human decision making then Atlassian you need to remove the decision makers !
Thanks for extending the timeline for deprecation of these widgets. However, by May 2025, I would like to see actual appropriate alternatives, most especially for the Roadmap widget, which is used DAILY across the teams in my instance for release review, planning, and scheduling.
I know we'll never hear the explanation, but I would absolutely love to understand the rationale behind removing some of the more useful widgets from an otherwise useless dashboard experience. You've left dashboards to languish for years, and to me, it sounds like you're going to rip out useful functionality so you can then re-add it at a higher pricing tier. Classy.
Your bizarre decisions around product make it harder and harder for me to advocate for you each year, Atlassian.
It's very disappointing that these 5 gadgets will be unavailable. Also, the process of using the API to get a list and check gadget usage wasn't user-friendly.
Would it be possible to implement a feature to hide these gadgets from the list when adding new ones? This would prevent further use of them and help us avoid unnecessary clutter on our dashboards.
@Ella Hilton in fact, why not just remove the annoying warning message in the dashboard, have a nice holiday break, rethink the approach and start fresh in 2025 with something that adds value?
Using statistic for Labels make no sense, you are limited to see only one projet and before it would show each label order by the name which is easier to search for.
You said "The Jira Road Map gadget provides a visual representation of project timelines so you can see the progression of tasks and projects over time.". This is not entirely correct. Jira Road Map is "release"/"version" oriented, not task oriented.
* Timeline: is task oriented, and is not multi-project.
* Advanced Roadmaps: I don't have a premium subscription, but as per your description and screenshots, they are also task oriented.
So, they are not alternatives to Jira Road Map gadget. Without alternatives, you are destroying product value with this decision.
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