Create and configure Roadmaps

What are Roadmaps?

Jira Product Discovery roadmaps are a way to get a bird's-eye view of all your cross-product initiatives.
In a Roadmap, you can consolidate multiple projects ideas in one view. Create a company product roadmap or track cross-product initiatives.

Create a roadmap

You can create new roadmaps from any Jira Projects. A roadmap view contains all ideas from the projects you’ve selected during the roadmap creation process. You can always filter out specific projects from views and modify the roadmap by adding or removing a project.

1. At the top navigation bar, select Roadmaps

2. Click Create a roadmap

3. Choose a roadmap name and an emoji.

4. Select which Jira Product Discovery projects to include in your roadmap and click Create.

Add details and modify your roadmap

You can add a description to your roadmaps to ensure all stakeholders have the necessary context.

To add a description:

1. Next to your Roadmap name click (. . . ) > About Roadmap

2. Click Add a description and edit your description.

3. To save your description, click Save.

You can also edit your roadmap name, emoji, and projects.

1. Next to your Roadmap name click (. . .) > Roadmap Settings

2. Click on the roadmap name to change its name and emoji.

3. Select Manage projects to add or remove projects from this roadmap and all its views.

Create and curate different views of your roadmap

Once your roadmap has been created, you can arrange it according to what you want to communicate. For that, you can create various views and add fields to them.

Add views to a roadmap

1. Select your roadmap.

2. On the left navigation click + or Create a view.

In roadmaps, you have the same choice of views as in Jira Product Discovery projects: List, Timeline, Board, and Matrix. Learn more about views and their usage.

Add fields to a roadmap view

There are two type of fields you can add to a roadmap: System and Global fields.

To add a field in a view:

1. On any view click Fields.

2. Toggle on the fields you want to display on the view.

In roadmaps, you cannot create fields; you will be provided with all the fields that are in use in at least one of the projects of the Roadmap.

If a field you want to use isn’t displayed as an Available field, it is a Project field and can’t be used in a Roadmap. Learn more about Project fields and Global fields.

Permissions

Roadmap permissions

The Owner is the creator of a roadmap. The owner can:

• Edit the roadmap details: edit the roadmap name, emoji and description, add and remove projects.

• Create and configure views (add a view, add groups, filters, sorting, edit fields).

Any licensed Jira Product Discovery user can:

• Create their own roadmap

• View all other roadmaps

Any licensed Jira user can:

• View all roadmaps

Ideas permissions

Ideas in a roadmap have the same permissions than in their projects. If a user doesn’t have edit ideas permission in a project, they won’t be able to edit ideas in a roadmap view, even if they are the owner of the roadmap.

Editing ideas in roadmaps

Any creator who has the right to edit an idea in the context of a project can also edit the idea in a roadmap view by opening the idea.

Viewing ideas in roadmaps

Users who don’t have access to a Jira Product Discovery project won’t be able to see its ideas in a roadmap. They can ask the project admin to grant them project access to see ideas in the context of the project and of the roadmap.