Also here to watch the status of this. Require ability to apply due dates for each step of the work flow for each individual issue and for this to be visible on the roadmap for planning & tracking. To identify if there any items past their due dates for any of the workflow phases as this could indicate in advance if something is at risk of not being completed on time. 

6096e47438e8   I filled out the form for the user survey July 19.  No communication regarding participation yet.  Assumed I didn't meet the criteria needed for the user study.

Update:  Received the email this am.  Was just farther up the stack of emails.

Hi ad683a59e76b and 955da2894241,

Thank you for your honest feedback. We are aiming to implement a solution that works well within the diverse range of workflows that our customers use. We will bring this feature to you as soon as we can.

As 6096e47438e8  has previously mentioned, we’re just about to wrap up a round of research. If you’d like to chat with us, please fill out the form and we will try our best to schedule you in: https://www.userinterviews.com/projects/1XjXpyYGQA/apply

Regards,

Ruvi

6096e47438e8 

"in the midst of the customer research study and will need a few more weeks to finalise our findings."  Really??? this issue was created 10 years ago and there is a constant stream of comments here from people requesting it. Surely just looking through that is enough research to determine that the ability to have "milestones" (which aren't releases) is something lots of people want/need. As you said yourself "we understand this is an important part of project management" 

We typically have a 6 month release cycle but within that we have multiple 6 week program increments (which, some teams then break in to 2 week sprints)... being able to set milestones for the program increments (as well as other key milestone dates) would really help.

Is it necessary a study to determine that some one need mile-stones in project work? Am I the only one that react to this way to approach a long missing feature? Atlassian you don't need a study to decide to implement a project. Go and read some history books instead.

Hi 9dcea572c229 and 6dbd86976a7d, Thank you very much for your feedback and patience, we understand this is an important part of project management.  We are in the midst of the customer research study and will need a few more weeks to finalise our findings.  Once that is completed, we will be in a better place to provide an update. In the meantime, we'd love to hear your input on this feature. Would you be able to complete this form: https://www.userinterviews.com/projects/1XjXpyYGQA/apply 

We will arrange a call with you and our Product Designer to discuss further. Thank you very much.

Regards

Karrie 

6096e47438e8   What is the timeline for the customer research study?  What is the next step after the study is concluded?

Is there a plan with milestones that can be shared?

Milestones are a key part of project planning and management.  If this tool is to be used for project planning, then milestones must be included.  

This was created 10 years ago!  And there has been very little movement except for it to be "future considered", and that was for 2023.

Please, this is a necessity.  My PMs won't even touch Advanced Roadmaps with out this.  They manage their projects in Excel.  Excel is winning out over you.  That's sad that we pay so much for a system that markets as a Management system.... but yet, no managers will use it.

Hi e7ef1a5ad8aa , thank you for reaching out. We are still exploring the right solution and want to ensure we do this well but will update this group once we have a more definitive timeline. Thank you

6096e47438e8 - I understand this is still in the research phase. But do you happen to know if this is a roadmap item and/or if there is a desired delivery date of this feature? Thank you!

Hi all,

Thank you so much for your votes and comments on this ticket.

We are doing further research on this topic about Milestones and would love to invite you to take part in an upcoming customer research study!

What’s involved in the research:

• Sessions are 1 hour and conducted over video-conference, so you can participate from anywhere around the globe.

• During the research, we'll start with a general chat to get to know you, then, we will ask you to give an example of a typical piece of work you and your team are delivering / have delivered recently. Then we will explore the topic further and to go through some concept ideas. 

• As a token of our appreciation, you'll receive an e-gift card worth $100 USD within 5 business days of completing your session.

Interested in taking part? Follow this link ** https://www.userinterviews.com/projects/1XjXpyYGQA/apply to fill in a few more details so we can make sure you’re a good fit.

If you have any other questions at all, feel free to email me directly on kkam@atlassian.com. We look forward to meeting you!

Cheers,

Karrie

Atlassian Agile DevOps Team

iongkowidjaja  Can you provide an update on this ticket since you are the assignee please

Good morning.  I have been wondering the same thing on when this can get moved to production.  We are moving to Plans here in the next month.  This is something we really need as releases at our company don't work for milestones.  Are there screenshots you can show what is planned for development?  We are looking for something as simple as having the standard diamond shape with a title and due date.  We need the standard diamond shape, a name and an end date.  It would be great to have it be part of the Summary in Plans as well.  This is the type of information our leaders review and manage towards, as well as our delivery teams.  Please provide an update.  Thank you.  

762b441b532a what is the latest update on this one please?

Please add these! We don't use releases as we including business tasks in our plans. We just need to put a date on our plan to highlight key milestones.

This feature would be very appreciated and useful

Good morning.  

We are currently looking at Advanced Roadmaps through a 30 day free trial.  One of our must haves is the ability to identify milestones (potentially as a the diamond symbol) in our plan.  This is similar functionality to the current tool we use (BigPicture).  Please provide an update on when this feature will be available as it will be part of our decision making process.  Thank you!  

Please provide release date for this enhancement.  1+ years since demo and feedback gathering seems to be enough time to finish and deploy.  

Looking through the audit logs - this was moved from "under construction" to "future consideration" in June 2023.  The hover over of "future consideration" explains that Atlassian is not working on this and will reconsider in a year.  So does that mean we have to wait until June 2024 before this will be even looked at for road mapping again?

btw:  Rathesh is inactive

@Rathesh Richards you gave a colleague of mine and myself a demo of the milestones for advanced roadmap status on March 28th 2023. It looked great already. You briefly mentioned at that time (but without committing) a possible release in Q3 or Q4 2023.

Today we are changing our processes internally and more than ever we would need those milestones in the tool.

This ticket is created on October 2014! Will there be a party for 10 years not bringing in basics for a roadmap?

Is there a release date for Milestones? Would it be in Q1/Q2 of 2024?

Please, this is needed for planning topics, not to use "workarounds".

Adding milestones would help our project managers to fully utilize the Jira Plan tool. 

For now I have done a workaround by creating a issue type called "milestone" and set the start date and duedate 1 day apart. It kinda works but not. 

Most of our project managers are used to Microsoft Project, and they can't understand why milestones don't exist in Jira Plan. I agree.

Best regards, Jira admin for my company.

@tracy moffat, I got a demo end of March. It looked good, for my purpose at least. The person from Atlassian mentioned Q4 but without committing anything.

Is there an update?  There were some posts about doing some sessions with the user group - were these completed?  When will this be planned?

Any updates on this matter ?

hello, is there a date by when this is planned to be released?

As part of each release cycle we have some milestone dates (e.g. "UI Freeze", "Feature Freeze", etc) and it would be really helpful if we could add milestone markers for these dates. They aren't "releases" themselves (so makes no sense to clutter up the release list with them) and they aren't specific to an epic/initiative etc. They are dates which are within each release (so it would be nice if they could be added as milestone dates within a release but it would be fine if they could just be added to individual plans)

Our biggest use case for milestones is capability to display on a gantt chart (ie Advanced Roadmaps) or in a presentation as a visualization to stakeholders of upcoming milestones in the context of the work in progress.

What would be useful to me is the ability to place a visual indicator on the Timeline view that marks some event e.g. moving the code to testing or releasing to production or a datacenter being decommissioned.  Epics are useful for tracking but sometimes there are efforts that span multiple epics and releases ... it can be difficult for stakeholders to understand when something is done-done in that situation.  A milestone would be useful to help foster their understanding

Please do this!!! It would make them so much more useful when sharing with stakeholders.

This would be especially helpful if the milestone could also describe an event that isn't captured in Jira, which would provide context and external pressures around the work.  For example, a professional event your product team might be working towards, or some regulatory deadlines.

Something I just learned...you can create milestones as releases and see them on your roadmap. I title mine thusly "MILESTONE: Milestone name," so that I can differentiate the milestones from other releases. They're visible on the roadmap view and I can filter for just the milestones.

Hi all -  Rathesh here from the Jira Software Cloud team. Thanks for your votes on this ticket! 
This is currently under consideration in our roadmap, but we'd love your help! We have a few milestone concepts that we would like to show you to get some quick feedback on how it could help you or your team plan and track more effectively in Advanced Roadmaps on Jira Software Cloud. 

If you are interested in being part of the solution and providing feedback on some concepts, feel free to book in a 30min call in 1 of the below: https://calendly.com/stian-atlassian/atlassian-research-customer-feedback 
https://calendly.com/ratheshr/planning-convo

Cheers,

Rathesh Richards, Product Manager - Jira Software Cloud

How can we manage important milestones within initiatives without this kind of feature ?

Please have this implemented soon. It is very helpful to align the deliverables against each milestone

Would love this

It would be great to have a milestone feature at the Epic level, not just at the Initiative level.

essential to all of my project planning

please yes

Please, this is essential feature for planning  

Yes please

This is a major miss vs competitor tools, and limits the ability to use advanced roadmaps to report to execs and business side. So annoying to have to copy and paste onto a slide and add annotations/lines to indicate.

Not being able to add milestones leaves a gap in planning.  The ability to add milestones for design delivery, dev complete, qa complete, etc which are totally separate from the fix version seems like it should be basic functionality.  Please add this feature!

This feature would be hugely valuable for our Marketing Projects in Advanced Roadmaps which have a number of milestones throughout their run. Otherwise it gets messy creating Epics or Stories to represent these when they're not technically work being done more a representation of them completing or reaching a point in time. 

when can we see this as a feature? Would love to see a milestone market in advance roadmap. This request dates all the way back from 2015-2016, surprise you guys are that slow in making this happen for your customers.

Lack of milestones is a huge gap for planning. And no, I do not mean releases. I have projects that will not be released for a year or more, but there many milestones that need to be met and tracked against before the first release. Currently I can't get any executive stakeholder buy in to using Jira Plans because they lack basic functionality like this. Milestones would get me one step closer to being able to use Jira for planning rather than having to use a different tool and keep the two in sync.

This has already 316 votes. Create the differentiation between milestones and versions is key and a basic expected feature. 

I want to see an ETA for this feature please. 

Yes, please add milestones!

Yes it would be great to have this feature. We can definitely use the project versions but milestones to display an important event would be useful.