Advanced Roadmaps (formerly Portfolio)

Does anyone know if/when the Program feature will be brought into Portfolio for Cloud? I cannot believe they dont have this available and are charging what they are for this. That is probably one of the most critical features for me and my teams.

I really tried to like Portfolio, but it seems that all of the new features are going to the JIRA server version, not cloud. Unfortunate, as the new planning experience would have made a huge difference for our company. The current version on the cloud is completely unintuitive. I would suggest not bifurcating the experience between platforms like this -- it causes much confusion, and for what reason?

Very Average product at an above average price. We trialled this and it seemed ok. It is frustrating to attempt to get a Realistic looking GANTT style chart out of anything though. You basically have to go through EVERY issue and set the issue relationships for anything to work. I wouldn't pay for this. The pricing is ridiculous this is used by managers only , but you have to pay for everyone in your team... It really should be a free part of JIRA due to it really not performing as it should.

Okayish for project status reporting and to get a capacity overview but not at all usable as portfolio planning tool. The scheduling algorithm is a real pain and totally unusable. For instance, I'd expect it to accept fixed release dates and do everything to meet those dates, but instead it will just schedule tasks from some less important project without telling me why and then go on about me missing a release deadline... Apart from being able to enter release dates, which the system ignores, you can specify target dates for each task. But again this is purely informational and the actual schedule dates will have nothing to do with the dates you intend to have for your project plan. I also find it inconvenient that you are not allowed to perform any overstaffing. We work on both support and projects which at a rate of 50:50 would give us a ~20h project availability per person and week. However, due to deadlines with a 40h task it may be decided for a person to do no support this week, finish the project task, and catch up with support the next week. This cannot be done with Portfolio. It will stretch the task over two weeks and you cannot do anything about it. A lot of these issues could be solved if you were at least allowed to manually override some of the scheduling decisions.

Used this plugin in a SAFe like environemnt and it causes PO frustration as they have to wrap their heads around two statemachines. It should have provided overview and clarity to inhouse customers but at the end we still have to maitain additional MS Project plans to really see a critical path. My advice: Use Jira for proper team level work organization and keep this in good sahpe plus have a proper plan on product manager level. (not in Jira.)