How to track work of resources spread across multiple projects?

Question

I manage a team of information developers (technical writers), each of whom works on multiple projects (also products). Their work generally gets tracked in boards for product releases. However, I want to track their work in ID (TW) sprints so that I can manage more work with the same number of resources.

If I allocate a writer only to a specific group of products, sometimes they get free time, while other writers in my organization are loaded, and are not able to reassign their work to other writers.

Rhyan Talbot · Answer

Hi @mbapat ,

My company is currently testing Activity Timeline and it’s pretty good.

App gives a cross-project view for shared resources and we use timesheets.

Plugin allows to assign the same task to different people and different days, something we found lacking in pure Jira

mbapat · Answer

Thanks so much!

Ollie Guan · Answer

Hello @mbapat .

Resource management plugin can assist multi-project management, you can refer to the following posts.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Resource-Capacity-planning-for-Jira-issues-please-help/qaq-p/999406

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Portfolio-for-Jira-questions/JIRA-Portfolio-team-capacity/qaq-p/1154620

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-can-I-use-Jira-to-track-resource-capacity/qaq-p/1277478