Although it can be used for many types of teams, Jira Product Discovery is mainly dedicated to those working in product management. Roadmaps provide a foundation that can become indispensable for those who want to organize, prioritize, and align their work with goals to work scalably and efficiently for both the company and the customer.
To make that happen, you need a tool to help you turn those ideals into reality. Today you’ll discover that that tool can be the roadmaps in Jira Product Discovery.
These not only shape a strategic vision for all stakeholders, but also interconnect individual work at team level so that the deliverables are not only satisfying, but have a unified direction, reflecting progress in the truest sense of the word.
3 reasons to use roadmaps :
1. Set a direction for the whole team
2. Gives you a true picture of expectations, not a distorted one
3. They allow for continuous tweaking, giving you the ability to intervene when necessary and make your product constantly better. Who doesn’t want that?
What a roadmap can look like in Jira Product Discovery:
What components actually help you get a clearer vision?
– Objectives, whether final or milestones, that justify to all stakeholders what their work contributes to and to what extent.
– Project requirements, which measure progressive success by outlining small milestones that must be achieved to progress towards the end of the project.
– The tasks themselves, whose function is self-evident, explaining in detail what each member has to do.
– Temporal clarity provided by the timelines component.
– Dependencies, fundamental to making work meaningful and flowing from start to finish.
How to use Jira Product Discovery to build roadmaps based on real data?
1. To start with, you probably intuit that to build a roadmap you need an already created Jira project – simple to do, especially since you have templates that can help you.
2. Next, take the time to think about how the work will be divided and the exact steps that will minimize execution time and maximize productivity.
3. Create the roadmap using the built-in function and customize it to the project needs. Add section names and descriptions, then set priorities, deadlines and statuses for each task. Don’t forget to include dependencies and progress indicators, useful for management to track the progress of the work.
4. Check the roadmap to make sure everything is in order and work can begin. As things evolve, the team’s goals will get closer and closer, and the client will be able to receive real and useful updates for their business, and yours. We like to call it a win-win.
In short, roadmaps enable teams to make decisions based on real data, focusing scarce resources where they can bring maximum benefit. That should be your goal too, so why not use a tool that makes it easy?
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