It's currently difficult to visualize how features are staged into releases over time as grouped by initiative. For example, currently initiatives as tagged onto features with a tiny icon in the release timeline view, which makes it hard to illustrate what's happening in initiative X over the next several releases?"
It would be valuable to have a view in the Release Timeline that was "initiative-centric". It could filter based on initiatives, and display features grouped by initiative using color or a shape instead of the icon.
This would be useful for visualizing goals as well.
This can be achieved through Pivot Table reports and Report Timelines.
This is what I was able to build in a custom pivot. It's pretty close to what I need, except that Company and Product Line initiatives are treated the same in the left hand column when I really want to see the hierarchy of initiatives Company-->Product Line-->Product
I think what would also help this is being able to filter Releases by initiatives, not just Features.