Implementing Flight Level Concept in Jira

[flaimo]

We want to implement Flight Levels using the following Levels: Company OKRs → Team OKRs → Projects → Team boards (Epics and User Stories).

Do we need addons for that, or can this be done just with plain vanilla Jira Cloud without jumping through hoops?

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @flaimo

you may want to have a look into Advanced Roadmaps, which comes as part of Jira Premium. While it's not specifically built for Flight Levels, Advanced Roadmaps supports additional issue hierarchy levels on top of epics, embraces the concept of teams, etc., so you should be able to implement it quite well.

There are, of course, many Marketplace apps that can help with this too. I myself happen to work on an app in which a Flight Level-style view could be built in just a couple of clicks; I'll provide more info below. 

Best,

Hannes

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Just to expand on the second point, this is how this could look in the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira:

For context, JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a number of advanced features, including the support for (configurable) issue hierarchies, issue grouping by any issue field(s), and sum-ups. With these, a view like the above one can be built in just a few minutes.

Once you've built your view, you can work on your issues directly in JXL, trigger various operations in Jira, or export your issues with just one click.

As said above, there'll be other apps, too. You may already know that you can trial any app for free for 1 month, and depending on the size of your size, it may be free forever. So if an app is an option for your, perhaps try a few and see which works best for you.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes