Connect individual task (relatively) in time

[Nico Marcuz]

Thanks for the video. We're new to Jira and I have a question about it. We want to connect individual task (relatively) in time. Example: Task 2 began 3 days after the end date of task 1. From our point of view, the advantage is that only the first date is fixed and all other dates result from the end-start relationship. This made it possible to develop small standard projects that could be copied as desired and only had to re-enter the first start date. All other relative dates would then result automatically. Hope the problem is explained clearly. Many thanks for a short feedback whether and how this is feasible.

[Alex Koxaras -Relational- · Accepted solution]

Hi @Nico Marcuz and welcome to the community,

You could possibly do that but not with the out of the box functionalities. You had to buy an app like JMWE (or similar) to do that work via post functions and listeners. But this stands only for the description you provided in your question. If e.g. when you start planning the solution your requirements will differ from these in this question, then perhaps you will find out that it's not possible.

Hope I make myself clear :)

[Nico Marcuz]

Hi @Alex Koxaras -Relational-, thank you very much for your quick feedback and your Welcome.

We come from the project management solution Microsoft Project. I thought that relative end-to-start relationships were standard in project management?!

I have to be able to put tasks in a temporal (relative) relationship to each other.

Do I understand you correctly that this is not possible with Jira without a third-party product?

That would be the knockout argument after 5 minutes...

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

@Nico Marcuz 

We come from the project management solution Microsoft Project. I thought that relative end-to-start relationships were standard in project management?!

That would be the case in a waterfall management, but not in agile or scrum, which Jira is kinda based on. However, Jira comes in bundle with advanced roadmaps (premium plan) or 3rd party apps like Structure which can do exactly what you want.

[Nico Marcuz]

@Alex Koxaras -Relational- Ok I understand. We are 2 people in the project team. Am I correct in saying that you still have to pay $1,525 a year for the premium plan?

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

If you choose to pay annually, yes. BUT,

If you choose to pay monthly (for 2 people) then you will pay only $366 (vat excluded).

But there is also plan b which is cheaper:

And plan C which would be to go with JWM and automate it somehow else. There are a lot of plans to get where you want to go. The final choice will be yours after an extend search of all possible solutions :)

[Nico Marcuz]

Alex that means, if I understand you correctly, that you have to pay for a minimum of 10 users, even if you only have two users. Correctly?

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

@Nico Marcuz if you select an annual billing cycle, then this works in tier. So you are correct that if you pay annually and you have two users, you will be on the first tier (1-10 users) which means that you will pay for a max of 10 users.

[Nico Marcuz]

@Alex Koxaras -Relational- Thank you Alex for your help. Just to be sure: if I pay monthly, the fact that I pay for 10 users in total doesn't change, or am I misunderstanding something?

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

@Nico Marcuz 

When you pay monthly you can choose your number of users.

When you pay annually, you don't choose the number of users. You play with tiers.

[Nico Marcuz]

@Alex Koxaras -Relational- 

Many thanks for the explanation. I had great difficulty understanding the offer because I had never seen such a billing model.

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

No worries :)

If I have answered your initial question, kindly mark my answer as accepted, in order to help other users in this community to find proper answers. Thanx!

[Nico Marcuz]

done. Thnx Alex