Migrate Your Work Items to Jira Product Discovery
Product Discovery is a still evolving product and not all features being added might be supported by Deep Clone. Let us know if there is something not working for your migration!
Introduction
With the advent of Jira Product Discovery, many Jira users are contemplating migrating their product management to this new offering. However, this transition presents a challenge: Jira Product Discovery only supports team-managed spaces, while many users currently operate in company-managed spaces. Unfortunately, Jira doesn't provide a straightforward method for transferring work items between these space types (project types).
This guide will detail a streamlined approach to migrating to Jira Product Discovery using Deep Clone, ensuring a smooth transition.
Step-by-Step Guide
Step 1: Evaluate Your Migration Needs
Understand Your Data: Analyze the work item data in your current Jira Cloud instances. Identify what needs to be cloned, including custom fields.
Assess Deep Clone Compatibility: Verify if Deep Clone for Jira meets your security and reliability requirements (which you can do by visiting our trust report page), and ensures that all critical data can be migrated.
Step 2: Prepare Your Space (Project)
Configure Target Product Discovery fields: Set up the target Product Discovery space. Ensure that you have created fields in your Product Discovery space for every custom field that you want to migrate. The field name must match the custom field name in the source space exactly, including capitalization, and the field must have a matching Field type. (E.g. Text Field (single line) to Short text; Select List (multiple choices) to Multi-Select)
Configure Target Product Discovery workflow: If you want to clone the status of your original work items, a status with the exact same name must exist in the target Product Discovery space. Additionally, the status must have a valid transition to it and no rules prohibiting the transition.
Step 3: Migrate with Deep Clone for Jira
Start Cloning Process: Use Deep Clone Bulk Clone to clone your work items to the new target Product Discovery space. You can select all work items in a space (project) or a custom JQL filter that's representing your old product management work item structure. This process can handle up to 100,000 work items at once.
Monitor the Migration: Deep Clone provides real-time monitoring through a cloning log, allowing you to track progress and address any work items immediately.
Receive Completion Notification: When dealing with extensive Bulk Cloning that might require additional time, Deep Clone can operate in the background, and users receive a notification upon the migration’s completion, and you can check the logs in the Clone History.
Benefits of Using Deep Clone for Jira
Efficient Migration: Deep Clone simplifies the migration process, enabling you to migrate to Product Discovery swiftly.
Complete Data: Deep Clone can clone your custom field values to the new field types in Product Discovery.
Conclusion
Deep Clone can help you migrate your old product management work item structures to the new Jira Product Discovery space type. This is thanks to Deep Clones support for cloning work items between company-managed and team-managed spaces.
Contact us if we can help you with your use case!
