Jira Plans and Scenario Planning

[Rich Allen]

Hi all.

A lot of my recent work is in hybrid environments so asks from an existing PMO.

The Jira plans work really well and very successful in moving dependency away from MS Project and other static tools.

My question is specifically around Scenario Planning in Plans. While you can create scenarios to discuss a work and timeline change, if you confirm a timeline change, the original timeline becomes lost.

PMOs often ask for current plan versus original, so wondering how people have accommodated this ask ? Is it just a matter of exporting the original and comparing or something else I may be missing ?

Thanks in advance.

[jeroen.wilmes]

Hi,

When you confirm the scenario, it indeed becomes your new plan. The data goes into your Jira and replaces the old data.

There are two things you can do (at least that is what works for me):

Indeed export the actual plan to your .png or csv. (I once logged a request to expert properly to PDF, but that request never made it to implementation. The PDF didn't work correct and Atlassian has removed that option.)

If we change a start- or due date (we mostly work only with Due dates), we log the old date in a custom field that we created called "original Due date". That gives us the possibility to track what has been changed. 

[Rich Allen]

Thanks @jeroen.wilmes  , the custom field option is also something I have implemented, but finding it a challenge with ongoing date changes. I admit this is likely a process improvement, but was still hoping to find maybe a marketplace app to support.

[Clayton]

Hi,

You could log old dates to a custom field and then create another plan that references those dates which you put side by side (if that visual would help :) )

Cheers

[Rich Allen]

Thanks @Clayton , this is also something I have implemented, but finding it a challenge with ongoing date changes.