Is it possible to manage developer capacity in Jira?

[E_B_]

We are just starting with Jira and I was wondering if that is a built way to manage developers' capacity (without extensions - 3rd party software).

Basic concepts like you can find on Azure DevOps for example: Persons X availability for this sprint is 70 hours, that time gets reduced as I assigned tasks to person X (assuming all tasks have estimated hours). I have some visuals where I can easily spot resources who are over allocated.

[Ollie Guan]

Hi @E_B_ ,

Recently Atlassian announced a new feature called Individual Capacity Planning for Jira, which is currently in Early Access:

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Introducing-Individual-Capacity-Planning-in-Jira-Join-our-Early/ba-p/3161425

If this direction sounds relevant to you, I’d recommend signing up for the EAP in the article above, trying it out, and giving concrete feedback to the Jira team.

[E_B_]

Wow, that looks great, the early access program appears to be closed but I will reach out to Atlassian and see if they can get us in. Thanks a bunch

[Rahul_RVS]

Hi @E_B_ 

For Jira cloud, If you would like to try an alternate mktplace app for tracking resource workload and capacity planning across multiple projects/boards, take a look at

Capacity Planner 

The app offers:

1. Resource Tracking and Allocation : The app allows you to monitor and track various resources by adding them as part of a template, and their work allocation across multiple projects / sprints.

2. Real-time Visualization: Provides intuitive charts, graphs to visualize resource utilization and capacity levels in real-time.

3. Full Sprint / Project Fix version Capacity and Monitoring

Mode details here

Disclaimer : I am one of the app team member 

[E_B_]

I will check it out, thanks.

[Mary from Planyway]

Hi @E_B_ 

Jira by itself doesn’t have built-in developer capacity planning.

Out of the box Jira only has:

• Original Estimate on issues

• Basic workload views in dashboards

• No automatic capacity allocation or over-allocation visuals

So you can’t do true capacity planning without a third-party extension.

A tool that does solve this nicely is Planyway for Jira — it lets you:

✔ Set each team member’s available hours
✔ Use issue estimates to auto-calculate workload
✔ See visuals of who’s over- or under-allocated
✔ Plan and adjust assignments on a timeline/Gantt

If your goal is to manage and visualize developer capacity, Planyway is a simple and effective option for Jira.