5 Jira Project Roadmap Tips That Every PM Should Know

Creating a project roadmap can be long and tedious.

Luckily, these tips (and tools like Visor) can help you develop a more streamlined and efficient process. Whether you’re planning one project or planning for the year, here are some tips to make sure you get the most out of your roadmap.

1. Make sure ALL your Jira issues have due dates

Ensuring all issues (or at least parent issues) have rough due dates is crucial in creating your roadmap. Providing a rough timeline helps you communicate internally and externally to stakeholders, clarify expectations, and set clear deadlines for your most important deliverables. Setting due dates is one simple habit that help you prioritize, pivot, and change plans as needed.

2. Break your main deliverables into Epics

Breaking your main deliverables for a project into Epics in Jira helps you set dates and prioritize and enhances the readability of your roadmap. While you may know the intricacies of your project inside and out, external stakeholders need to get a clear grasp of what’s coming and when. Breaking critical parts of your project into Epics allows you to present the “big picture” while leaving room to drill down in the child issues.

3. Add some color to your roadmap

Using color when presenting information has been found to?play a significant role in enhancing memory performance. Adding some color coding to your roadmap is visually pleasing and ensures that the information you’re presenting sticks with people, meaning less room for confusion or miscommunication down the line.

In addition, project management tools like Visor?allow you to color code?based on issue type, progress status, assignee, and more with just a few clicks.

4. Explore tools that convert your Jira project into a roadmap

Projects are constantly changing and evolving, so your roadmap must be just as flexible as you are. Tools like Visor can use your Jira data to?create a roadmap?with a few button clicks, saving you time and doing the heavy lifting for you. Visor also communicates with Jira so that any updates you make to your project in Jira sync over to Visor (and vice versa).?

You can make your Jira syncing a one-way sync or a two-way sync.

5. Make your roadmap as shareable as possible

It’s hard being the only person with the keys to the kingdom. Presenting your roadmap in a way that is easily shareable not only aids with communication but it can also help take some of the weight off the project manager and prevent roadblocks in the future.

With Visor, you can?share your roadmap?with as many people as you want and set their permissions based on the access you want them to have. You can assign view, comment, and edit access individually or in bulk. In addition, access can be revoked or changed at any time, allowing you to share what you want when you want.

No one knows the value of time like a project manager, and your roadmap should feel like an asset instead of a burden. Lighten the lift with Visor and try it for free today!