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Platform and migration

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.

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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.

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?
Often, and the deciding factor is usually whether you want prioritization in the same estate as delivery and reporting.
Where does this sit relative to Focus?
Below it. Discovery decides what should be considered; the focus areas decide what gets funded.

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.

Find out what you are actually running.

Fixed scope. The assessment reads the estate as it is: instances, schemes, licensing, and the decisions a migration would force you to make anyway. You get the findings, the ownership gaps, and the order to close them in.