Schedule work on the roadmap

Delivery → Timeline shows the initiatives you have put on the roadmap, grouped by Now, Next, and Later. Use it when the question is when. The dates you set here are the initiative's own start and finish dates.

Read a row

• Each initiative keeps its own colour, so a row stays recognisable while you scroll. The colour identifies the initiative; it does not encode status.
• A bar fills with the share of estimated story points completed. The fill appears only when every estimated task reports progress, so an unfilled bar means the work has not started or cannot yet be measured.
• A completed initiative fades back, so finished work stops competing with work in flight.
• A dashed outline means the initiative has no dates yet. Its row reads No dates yet, and the bar spans the month ahead from today as a starting point. Drag or resize it to schedule the work.
• Past finish date appears beside the dates when a finish date has passed and the initiative is not complete.
• When a bar sits outside the dates on screen, its row shows a small arrow pointing the way. Select the arrow to bring the bar into view.

Change dates

• Drag the middle of a bar to move the initiative and keep its length.
• Drag either end to change only that date.
• While you drag, the exact start and finish appear at the ends of the bar and in the row, so you can see the result before committing to it.
• Release to save. The bar confirms the change, and the message that follows offers Undo.
• To work without a pointer, move focus to a bar and use the arrow keys to move it by a day, Shift with an arrow key to move only the finish date, Enter to save, and Escape to discard. At the Quarter zoom, each step moves a week.

Move around the calendar

• Drag any empty part of the calendar to pan through time.
• Switch between Week, Month, and Quarter. The date in the middle of the view stays where it is, so you keep your place.
• Today returns to the current date, marked by a vertical line.

Change what appears

• Add initiatives puts committed initiatives on the roadmap, and you choose whether they land in Now, Next, or Later.
• Select an initiative's name or its bar to open the record beside the timeline.
• Removing an initiative from the roadmap also clears its start and finish dates, because those dates describe its place on the plan.

A date you set here is a commitment you are making, not a calculation. If a date is fixed externally, record that constraint so the plan does not imply it came from capacity.