track all roadmap milestones - which are features (Epics) across multiple JIRA projects

[Rajal Shah]

Hello - I have a roadmap for the company with clear milestones with dates.. I have all product features created as Epics.. and a group of Epics are to be delivered in each of these milestones.

The Epics are created in the JIRA project of the team that is working on it. We have many team projects..

The question is how can I setup these milestones?

One option is to use fixVersion for milestones - where I can specify the release dates for it and track its progress (adjust due date it late etc.).. However, fixVersion does not propagate across JIRA projects and our milestones have a list of Epics across the projects..

Another option is to create a global JIRA field for Roadmap Milestones (or could be a Component) and track it that way, though we lose the fixVersion style attribute which has a release date and shows all the features included in it natively.

A third - and probably the most practical - approach is to create a Roadmap project and have only one issue type of Milestones and use the linked from/by features to take all the Features to that milestone issue.. Use the standard JIRA due date field for the release date of those milestones and just create a full view of deliverables from this linking..

We use JIRA Structure for our execution reviews and do not use JIRA Plans or Advanced Roadmaps..

[Matteo Vecchiato · Accepted solution]

Hi @Rajal Shah ,

I would like to suggest to create a "portfolio project" with a specific work type, each work type should a reference (child's) to work item in the other projects.

It is similar to your third option, but with a dedicated project that contain all the "cross milestones".

I hope it helps 

Regards 

[Rajal Shah]

ack.. I think that is the only realistic answers without doing heavy customizations is exactly what you proposed..

I've gone ahead and created

• a complete setup of customer milestones,
• that have multiple internal milestones,
• which then has a list of product features that make up the content of that milestone. 

And I'm using Due date fields to track the feature, internal milestone and customer milestone deliverables..

Thank you for the quick response.