Jira Product Discovery projects overview
What is a discovery project?
A discovery project is a dedicated space to collect and organize your ideas, insights, and roadmaps for an individual team or product. It’s where your uncertain work happens - evaluating ideas, validating them with insights, and testing prototypes.
You can find your projects or create a new one in the top navigation under the Projects dropdown.
If you’re a Jira Software user, you may be familiar with team-managed and company-managed project types. Jira Product Discovery projects are team-managed only, meaning projects are administered and managed at the team level for more autonomy over processes and practices within a self-contained space.
Changes in a team-managed project can also be implemented without requiring the help of a Jira administrator. And, because each project is configured independently, a change in one project does not impact any other projects.
How to set up a project in Jira Product Discovery
To create a new discovery project:
- Click on the Projects dropdown and select Create project
- Choose Product management or Software development under Project templates
- Click the Product discovery template and follow the prompts to get started
Discovery project best practices
When you set up your project, there are a few best practices to keep in mind depending on your use case.
Team setup
While Jira Product Discovery was designed to work best when one project is used by an individual team, an individual project can also be used by multiple teams. If used by multiple teams or squads, it’s best to create sections within your project or naming conventions to easily identify which ideas, views, and roadmaps belong to which team.
Using a discovery project for idea intake
If you’re using Jira Product Discovery for idea intake, we recommend using one of the following methods to capture feedback and requests from stakeholders and customers:
- Set up a Jira Service Management queue to receive feedback from customers and internal teams
- Set up a dedicated Slack channel #product-feedback to receive feedback from internal teams (also works with Teams)
- Share views with other teams and gather their feedback using fields and votes to receive feedback from internal teams
Leveraging practices with Jira Product Discovery
Learn from the Head of Product for Jira Product Discovery on how his team handles product feedback, builds product roadmaps, creates a loop between discovery and delivery, and communicates progress to stakeholders.