Ideas with the same discipline as delivery.
Jira Product Discovery holds ideas and the evidence behind them, with prioritization frameworks that run before an idea becomes committed delivery work. Our work is connecting discovery to delivery and to the portfolio roll-up above it.
Product Discovery holds ideas, evidence, and prioritization before work becomes delivery. Connected upward it feeds the portfolio; unconnected it is a second backlog.
What it is
Jira Product Discovery holds ideas and the evidence behind them, with prioritization frameworks that run before an idea becomes committed delivery work.
It is for product organizations whose intake currently lives in a spreadsheet, and who are being asked how a given priority was arrived at.
What it does
Ideas with evidence attached
Prioritization that can be explained after the fact rather than defended from memory.
A path from idea to delivery
An accepted idea becomes work items without being retyped.
Where it fits
L2, platform and migration, feeding L3. Discovery is where the portfolio's inputs are decided. If it is not connected to the focus areas above it, the organization ends up with two prioritization systems that disagree.
What we do with it
Connecting discovery to the portfolio
Ideas that feed focus areas, so intake and prioritization are one system rather than two.
Intake design
A front door for new ideas, with the fields that make a decision reviewable later.
Deciding where prioritization lives
Whether discovery, the portfolio, or both hold prioritization, settled before two systems start disagreeing.
Where it earns its place
A product group prioritizing in spreadsheets
The spreadsheet is not the problem. The absence of a record of why something was chosen is.
An organization with two intake paths
Discovery and portfolio intake disagreeing is a governance problem before it is a tooling one.
Questions we get
Is this a replacement for our roadmap tool?
Where does this sit relative to Focus?
Licensing
Product Discovery is licensed by creator rather than by everyone who reads it, so the count is smaller than teams assume. That reconciliation sits with the rest of the estate in licensing and renewals.