New product requirements tracking

[Scott Hassell]

Interested in most popular requirements tracking apps or usage.  For example, product management enters product requirements and engineering team tracks the dev via initiatives, epics backlog.

[John Funk]

Hi Scott - you can use Jira Product Discovery to do the product management work, and the Jira to do the implementation/execution of any work. And you can link the latter to the former. 

[Kelly Lillis]

Have you explored Jira Product Discovery? 

[Joshua Brock]

Greetings @Scott Hassell !

Great question — requirements tracking is such a critical part of aligning product management and engineering teams.

There are several popular approaches within the Atlassian ecosystem, often using a mix of tools like Jira Software, Confluence, and advanced apps that enhance traceability across teams.

If you're looking for a solution that supports structured requirements management and full traceability from product idea to delivery (especially in scaled environments), I humbly offer our solution, Agile Hive. It’s built to work seamlessly within Jira and helps bridge the gap between strategic product planning and Agile delivery by:

• Allowing product managers to define and manage requirements in a clear hierarchy (e.g. Epics, Capabilities, Features).
• Supporting engineering teams with initiative and epic breakdowns, directly linked to team-level backlogs.
• Offering automated SAFe® compliance, if you're working at scale.
• Providing end-to-end traceability — from portfolio-level planning down to development and release — all within Jira.

It’s particularly useful if you're managing multiple teams or products and need visibility into how product decisions translate into execution.

Feel free to check out our listing in the Atlassian Marketplace ... if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out.

Best,

Joshua
Content & Technical Writer
Agile Hive

[Mary from Planyway]

Hi @Scott Hassell 

While Jira itself offers robust capabilities for issue tracking, enhancing it with specialized apps can significantly improve the requirements management workflow. Some of the most popular approaches and apps often focus on:

1. Dedicated Requirements Management Tools (RMTs) integrated with Jira: These tools offer more advanced features for requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and traceability, often linking directly to Jira issues. Examples include BigPicture, Structure, and dedicated RMTs like Jama Connect or Helix ALM with Jira connectors.

2. Enhanced Jira Reporting and Visualization: Apps that provide better ways to visualize the hierarchy of requirements, their status, and dependencies within Jira.

3. Roadmapping and Planning Tools: Tools that help product managers translate requirements into strategic roadmaps and then link those roadmap items to development work in Jira.

How Planyway for Jira can help with Requirements Tracking

Planyway for Jira is a powerful app that transforms your Jira data into interactive timelines, offering a visual way to manage and track your work. For the scenario you described – product management defining requirements and engineering tracking development – Planyway can be incredibly beneficial in several ways:

Visualizing the Product Roadmap and Requirements:

• Strategic Overview: Product managers can use Planyway's timeline view to map out high-level product initiatives and requirements, visually representing the roadmap. Each "requirement" could be an Epic or a custom issue type in Jira.

Connecting Requirements to Development Epics/Stories:

• Hierarchical View: Planyway allows you to see the hierarchy of your Jira issues. Product management can define requirements as parent Epics, and then engineering can link child Stories and Tasks to these Epics. Planyway visually displays these relationships on the timeline or board.
• Drag-and-Drop Planning: Once requirements are defined (e.g., as Epics), product managers or team leads can easily drag and drop these items onto the timeline to establish target delivery dates. Engineering teams can then break these down further into Sprints or specific team backlogs.

Tracking Development Progress Against Requirements:

• Real-time Updates: As engineering teams update the status of their Epics, Stories, and Tasks in Jira, Planyway automatically reflects these changes. This provides product management with a real-time visual of how development is progressing against their defined requirements.
• Dependency Management: Planyway's timeline view makes it easy to spot and manage dependencies between different requirements or development tasks, helping to identify potential bottlenecks early.

Backlog Management and Prioritization:

• Visual Backlog: Planyway can display your Jira backlog on a board, allowing product managers to easily prioritize requirements and engineering teams to pull work into their sprints.
• Capacity Planning: With the ability to view work assigned to individuals or teams over time, you can get a better sense of capacity and ensure that requirements are being distributed effectively.

[Rich Allen]

Hi @Scott Hassell , I'm aligned with the above, Discovery is a great tool for Product Management. I would add a consideration, depending on Product or Project focus, is to design a work item hierarchy to support business needs and agility.
For example, you can create a work item hierarchy, creating a 'Requirement' work item, supported by Feature and Epic work items, to support visibility and traceability from requirement gathering to Team delivery; this is naturally supported by Jira Plans.

Again it depends on how full on the organization is from a 'product' perspective with things like Customer engagement, or whether there is a significant project-led influence.

[Carlos Garcia Navarro]

I agree with John and Kelly. Jira Product Discovery works great to manage ideas and requirements and to integrate with Jira. I recommend these articles to get started:

- https://support.atlassian.com/jira-product-discovery/resources/