I'd like to have an option to manage the next-gen project in the following way:
Gantt chart for Epics (which is already implemented in Next-Gen projects) is a crucial feature to visualize the plan and see high-level progress. That just brilliant and I'm so happy to have this feature available in Next-projects.
But, in addition to Gantt chart / Roadmap, I'd like to have an option to control the consistency of the delivery flow and easily detect flow interruptions when I have too many epics in the single column or too little / nothing in another. So, for me, the Epics board would help a lot to manage the speed and quality of delivery.
As you know, the current implementation of Next-gen projects includes only Task board, which provides value for individual team members to easily manage their assignments and observe colleagues' assignments. But, for me (as a product manager), the Task board cannot provide wanted ability to control the consistency of the flow.
Moreover, currently, that's not possible to change the Epics workflow and have states other than todo -> in progress -> done, which doesn't make sense to me.
So I hope, that further versions of Next-gen projects will provide an ability to manage Epics workflow and control flow consistency for epics delivery (for me, that would be enough to have Epics board in order to achieve that),
Also, I would be glad to hear any feedback and advice from the community on how to control the consistency of the flow for my use-case in Next-gen projects.
Thanks for sharing a link to JSWCLOUD-17392. It provides way more insights than the public roadmap page. As I can see work on workflow improvements is already "in progress" - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-17434.
I hope "Reimagining the Workflow Editor" will allow setting different workflows for epics, tasks, and subtasks. It will help a lot for my use-case.