Create and share roadmaps in Jira Product Discovery
10 min
By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to:
- Create different roadmaps for different audiences
- Share roadmaps with your teams and stakeholders to stay in sync
Create roadmaps
A roadmap in Jira Product Discovery is a dynamic visual plan that shows your team's ideas and priorities over time. It helps you organize what you’ll work on now, next, and later, making it easy to communicate your plans to stakeholders. You can customize roadmaps to fit different audiences, like your team or leadership, and update them as priorities change. This keeps everyone aligned and ensures your product work stays on track.
When you create a roadmap for different audiences in Jira Product Discovery, you adjust the level of detail you include. This way, each audience gets the information they need without being overwhelmed by unnecessary details.
Roadmaps aren’t specific with their dates because they are designed to show high-level plans and priorities that can change as new information or shifting priorities emerge.
👇 Click the boxes below to see how to tailor your roadmap to different audiences.
For more information on creating different roadmaps, take a look at the roadmapping pages in the Jira Product Discovery handbook.
Share roadmaps
Sharing roadmaps keeps teams, stakeholders, and leadership aligned about what’s planned, what’s in progress, and what’s coming next. By sharing roadmaps, you avoid confusion and everyone can quickly respond to changes as priorities shift.
When distributing a roadmap, you need to think about whether it is best to share or publish it. Sharing is great for ongoing teamwork, while publishing is best for communicating a live view to a broader audience.
👇 Click the tabs below to discover how to share and publish roadmaps.
Sharing a roadmap in Jira Product Discovery means giving others access to the live, interactive version. Your team or stakeholders can see updates in real-time and even collaborate if they have the right permissions.
To share a roadmap:
- Open your Jira Product Discovery space and navigate to the roadmap view you want to share.
- Copy the URL from the browser’s address bar or click the share icon at the top of the view and click Copy link.
- Send this link to the members of your team that you wish to collaborate with.
👇 Here’s how you share a roadmap.
👇 Click the boxes below to view the accessible video descriptions.
Add view restrictions to roadmaps
Adding view restrictions to roadmaps in Jira Product Discovery helps you control exactly who can see or edit your roadmap. This is important when you want to keep sensitive plans private or limit editing to just a few team members. With view restrictions, you can make sure only the right people have access, keeping your roadmap secure and your team focused.
To change the roadmap view restrictions:
- Open the roadmap view you want to restrict.
- Click the lock icon at the top-right corner of the screen.
- Set the access level you want:
- Open: Everyone in the space can view. Creators can edit.
- Restricted: Everyone can view. Selected users can edit.
- Private: Only selected users can view or edit.
- If you have chosen Restricted or Private view restrictions, a field will appear with the text ‘Enter name or group.’ Add further restrictions more granularly here.
- Click Copy link or just X out of the dialog.
👇 This is where you can find the view restrictions button.
Only users with the "Manage Views" permission or roadmap owners can change the view restrictions on a roadmap.
Add a roadmap to Confluence
You can easily add a Jira Product Discovery roadmap to a Confluence page to keep everyone in your organization up to date. This lets you share live, interactive roadmaps with stakeholders, so you always see the latest plans without needing to switch apps.
To add a roadmap to a Confluence page:
- In Jira Product Discovery, open the roadmap view you want to share.
- Copy the URL of that view from your browser.
- Go to your Confluence page and paste the URL where you want the roadmap to appear.
- If the roadmap doesn’t show up automatically, click the pasted link and select the Embed option to display it as an interactive card.
👇 This is how a roadmap in Confluence looks when embedded.
