Advanced Roadmaps sequencing

[Vivek Goel]

Two people on the team created their own plan using the same project as input. Person A sorts Initiatives / epics in a certain way.

Epic-1

Epic-3

Epic-2

Person B goes in and sorts in a diff way in his plan.  

Epic-3

Epic-2

Epic-1

Result is that B's changes get reflected in A's plan.

Why is that so and is there a way around it?

[Ste Wright]

Hi @Vivek Goel 

I'm quite sure this is related to ranking.

If you reorder issues in one plan via Advanced Roadmaps - once saved, this will modify the ranking across all of Jira (including other plans).

This is like when you have an issue in two different board backlogs - if you move it in one backlog, it moves in the other also. Ranking is not board or plan specific - it's instance-wide.

See this page for more on ranking in Advanced Roadmaps.

Ste

[Vivek Goel]

Thanks Steve.

[Vivek Goel]

Hi Steve,

I read thru the page, it was very helpful.

Some follow-up thoughts. 

I setup two scenarios 'Baseline' and 'Best Case'.

Both had different rankings. However I DID NOT 'Save Changes to Jira' under 'Review Changes'. Result is that both Plans (scenarios) have different rankings. Not perfect but this does allow me to achieve my desired result. Thoughts!

Appreciate your feedback.

[Ste Wright]

Hi @Vivek Goel 

This is likely because you didn't commit the changes to Jira :) - thus didn't edit the issues officially.

In Plans, you can have multiple scenarios which allows you to add issues, change estimates, etc without confirming those issue modifications. It allows you to scenario plan for different outcomes.

Nice workaround!

Ste