🎁 Unwrap the Perfect Plan: Bite Size Learning Series for Jira Plans! 🎁

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The holidays are finally here, and we’re excited to present our Bite Size Learning video series for Jira Plans! Each day, you’ll discover a new “gift” of knowledge to help you and your team plan smarter, collaborate better, and celebrate your wins.

🎄 How it works

• Starting December 8, come back to this post every day to find a new video – each one focuses on a core feature of Jira Plans.

• Watch all 5 videos and test your knowledge with our quiz (available at the end of the week).

• Score 100% on the quiz to earn the exclusive “Plans Pro” badge – the perfect stocking stuffer for your Atlassian profile!

• BONUS: 10 admins who earn the badge will also be randomly selected to receive our special admin gift box in the new year! 🎉

🎁 Why Jira Plans is the gift that keeps giving

Whether you’re new to Jira Plans or leveling up your skills, this video series will help you get the most out of your planning process. From product launches to marketing campaigns, Jira Plans gives teams powerful tools to:

• Stay aligned: Connect your organization’s biggest goals to actionable work items in Jira Plans, so everyone understands the “why” behind their work and can help drive business outcomes.

• Collaborate effectively: Jira Plans brings teams together across teams and spaces, making it easy to plan, track, and deliver from one trusted source of truth.

• Scale effortlessly: With Jira Plans, you can handle more projects, bigger teams, and greater complexity – without losing clarity or control.

✨ Don’t miss out

Bookmark this post and check back daily starting December 8. Share your progress, ask questions, and connect with other Jira Plans users in the comments below.

Ready to unwrap the perfect plan? Your journey to becoming a Plans Pro starts here!

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Intro to Jira Plans: Core Concepts

Unlock smarter planning and seamless collaboration with Jira Plans, available in Jira Premium and Jira Enterprise. In this video, Principal Product Manager Irene Ongkowidjaja demonstrates how the powerful views in Jira Plans are purpose-built to streamline cross-functional teamwork, reduce confusion, and drive alignment. Discover how easy it is to share your plans with stakeholders, ensuring everyone stays informed and engaged as your projects evolve.

 

Intro to Jira Plans: Program Board

Learn how to use the Program Board in Jira Plans to align multiple teams, ensuring everyone is working toward shared goals. In this video, Principal Product Manager Irene Ongkowidjaja demonstrates how you can use Jira Plans to gain visibility into cross-team progress and dependencies, so you can proactively address risks and achieve greater organizational impact through coordinated execution.

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Someone actually asked us this week to put together some demo videos of Plans, and these are perfect! 😄
I’m definitely forwarding this series to the client so we can spend our session on Q&A instead of recreating what’s already beautifully done.

Cheers for putting this together! 🙌

[Amanda Barber]

Woohoo! I was just looking at introducing Plans to two of my teammates - this will be SO helpful!

[Ricardo Cardoso D_ Oliveira]

Excellent introductory video to Plans! I can't wait for the next videos.

[Trudy Claspill]

This is a very timely post! We are also about to demo plans to a client that has been using Structure in DC. 

[Peter Norris]

I watched this last night on the Atlassian YouTube channel; will the whole series be posted up? Useful content to send to our user community...

[Izabela França]

Perfect timing to learn more about Plans. Loved the content!
Looking forward to the next videos.
Thank you for putting this together! 

[Cornelia Jeppsson]

I stole this video and put it straight into the little Plans-guide I have created a while ago in our Confluence instance. Amazing stuff! Thank you so much!

[Daryl Marsh]

Looking forward to the remaining videos. 

[Zaheer Khan]

I love this - have been trying to get my fellow Teams to use Plans more often. 

This is great. 

[Kit Friend]

Super useful - just been chatting about getting some more Plans smarts out to a few key teams!

As we've been rolling out the Program Board in particular to teams there's a few key features I'd love to see coming next...

📊 Analytics is awesome for custom charting... but it feels like Plans metrics could do with a tune up. In particular offering a cross-team burnup view that matches the concepts in the Program Board (or wider plans) would be super useful - "Can we see if we're heading towards making this quarter's plan we created?" is a reasonable thing to want a quick solution for

✨ It's easy to muck up a date or need to tweak something with the Program Board - having the option to edit existing boards config including dates would be very handy including https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-95381 

🏷️ The existing approach to labelling work for planning is ok as a workaround, but some more programmatic (and/or Rovo-powered!) solutions feel appropriate - being able to select the range of items using JQL/Filters for example 

🤨 The relationship of chunkier work items like Epics to sprints feels like it can mature. Standard work items should fit within sprints a la normal Scrum guidance, but Epics can often span a few - this and how setting sprints/dates on parent/child items do/don't align with each other could be improved