Timelines and boards - project types

[Tereza Červinková]

Hello everyone!

Can you tell me which project types contain Timelines and which Roadmaps?

As far as I know, Roadmaps are in Jira Software Projects and Timelines in Jira Work Management. Or am I wrong? I haven't found any summary of this yet.

Also I would like to know which projects possess "advanced boards" - where you can add columns with different heading than statuses, create swimlanes etc.

These two things are usually the basic "I want my project to have this" requests. I use Jira Software to make sure there is s Roadmap and the advanced board, but as we are not a software company, we don't use many features of this type and need to turn them off one by one.

A table of these features would help me decide which project type to choose. Thanks for any info.

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi Tereza,

You are pretty much correct in your assessment. 

Only Jira Work Management has Timelines. But you cannot currently have multiple statuses in the same column on the board nor can you change column headings. 

Jira Software projects use Roadmaps. Company-managed projects use boards that you can customize. Team-managed projects use boards with less functionality like JWM projects. 

What is it about Jira software projects that you have to turn off? 

[Tereza Červinková]

Hello John,

thank you for your answer. I delete Backlog and Selected for development columns. We don't use Components, Code, Backlog, Releases and On/call features. Different base workflow. I see now that Components cannot be even turned off in Software project. Neither can be Backlog, but that is not that worrying. 

I think it is a shame that of all those available JWM projects we still need to use software one to enable roadmaps. I know it is a different type of project, but anyway. Even worse is that you cannot find that info on the "choose your project" page.

Tereza