🍂🎃 Apptoberfest '25 discussion: Apps for Strategy & Planning

[Kelsey Van Scoy]

👋 Hi Community! We’re excited to bring you our final Apptoberfest '25 discussion topic—this time, we’re spotlighting Apps for Strategy & Planning!

Atlassian’s Marketplace features a diverse range of apps purpose-built to streamline roadmapping, goal tracking, workflow automation, and more—empowering teams to plan and execute strategy more effectively.

We’d love to hear from you:
Which Marketplace apps are essential to your strategy and planning processes? How do teams in your organization use these tools to centralize strategic information, unlock deeper insights, and automate routine work?

Let us know! 👀

[Ayyan Adeel]

Hi Kelsey and Atlassian Community 

As a Chief Web Developer working in Italy, I have found that strategy and planning tools from the Atlassian Marketplace make a huge difference in keeping projects on track - especially when managing multiple updates for our financial tools and websites

Personally, I rely on Advanced Roadmaps and OKR for Jira to keep our development goals aligned with overall product strategy. The visibility they offer - from sprint planning to release tracking - really helps our remote team stay focused and accountable. We’ve also started using Automation for Jira to handle repetitive tasks like status updates and issue transitions, which saves hours every week.

These apps don’t just improve workflow; they help transform how our small team approaches long-term planning with clarity and data-driven insights.

Best regards

A.A. Silkina

[Tim W]

I definitely use Advanced Labels! 

[John Funk]

OKR Board and BigPicture stand out to me. 

[Wayne_Reilly]

We use Elements Publish to help with creating Confluence pages and Jira tickets from JSM tickets. Helps people with other licences to track their work.

[Clara Belin-Brosseau_Elements]

Happy to read that our app Elements Publish helps you integrating Jira and Confluence together!

[Rinjini Poddar]

eazyBI Reports and Charts for Jira, Easy Agile Programs for PI Planning, and Plans in Jira are user-friendly tools equipped with advanced features that support effective strategy development and planning.

[Jason U]

Rich Filters and  Plans for sure!

[Staffan Redelius]

Easy Agile Programs for PI Planning gives you more in depth capabilities for planning at scale

[Fadi Messaoudi]

we are looking forward to see some Apps that can translates special fields and forms in JSM without translating them manually

[Urmo]

Build in Advanced Roadmap (Plan) works very well and now we also using JPD.

[Dan Breyen]

I'll need to check out the EasyBI reports.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

We use Rich Filters in Jira to allow users with different roles get to the information they need.

[Thiago P _Atlassian Support_]

Love to see all the suggestions coming in! =]

[Marshall Walker Lee]

Love the recommendations here!

[Anwesha Pan _TCS_]

Currently my org isn't using any app from the Marketplace, but I am here for all the suggestions! 🤩

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Well, depends on what kind of planning we're talking about, but generally our clients and we usually lean towards Jira Plans (not an app, I know) and BigPicture. 📈

Then, if we talk about some kind of capacity planning, BigPicture is still in the game, with Capacity Planner from Tempo also having some nice features related to projecting team or individual capacity. Also, a new player (at least for us) is Activity Timeline, which also serves as a nice capacity planner. 📊