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Struggling to understand who’s working on what in Jira, so I built this

Dario Sanatkar
April 8, 2026

Hi everyone 👋

I recently ran into a problem while managing our employees/users across several Jira spaces in my company.

We have around 150+ users in our instance, and it became surprisingly difficult to answer simple questions like:

  • Who is working on what?
  • Which users have access to which projects?
  • How active is that user in that project?
  • What is that user's workload in that project?

Jira is great, but I found that getting a clear, centralized view of users, roles, and activity across projects wasn’t straightforward. For example, before, I had to open each project and check which users were assigned to it.

So I decided to build a small Forge app to solve this for our internal needs: User manager for Jira (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/2258788102/user-manager-for-jira)

It gives a single dashboard where you can:

  • See all users and their project involvement
  • Understand workload, roles and permissions quickly
  • Monitor activity and identify unused or misconfigured access

It started as an internal tool, but I’m now exploring publishing it on the Jira Marketplace.

Curious to hear:
👉 Is this something others have struggled with as well?
👉 How are you currently managing user visibility at scale?

Happy to share more details if anyone’s interested!

🙏 Thank you!

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marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-
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April 11, 2026

"... but I’m now exploring publishing it on the Jira Marketplace."

It's published as a paid app, so this post looks like an advertisement.

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April 11, 2026

Hi @marc -Collabello--Phase Locked- 

Agreed; it is marketing the product(s), and...

This content was originally posted as a "question" in the Jira area.  The community managers moved it here to App Central to reflect the marketing aspects.

Kind regards,
Bill

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