Is there a timeline showing what issue everyone is working on

Question

Hi!

I am currently trying to organize the work inside my team a bit better and have set up the following system: each member of the team has issues that are assigned to him. The issues have a start time and a duration associated to them.

For the purposes of planning, I would like to see a timeline where each row in the timeline represents one team member. In this row I would then like to see what each team member is doing right now, or will be working on in the next weeks.

I have found the "Roadmap" feature, however Roadmaps is showing the epics/issues as rows in the timeline, which does not allow me to get a quick understanding of everyone's workload.

Here a sketch:

Is there already something similar?

Anna-BigPicture · Answer

Hi @Stefan Brocanelli

Please find my answers below: 
 * Yes, you can manage employees' holiday and working schedules as well as easily add absences. You can also enable the option to calculate the tasks period based on the assignee's working days.
* BigPicture synchronizes with Jira. Therefore once the Assignee field is filled in Jira, the app will reflect it. Synchronization is bi-directional.
* Unfortunately, it's not possible to add Releases to the view. However, on the Gantt module, you can create WBS based on Releases or group tasks by Releases and assignees.
* Color coding is related to assignees' workload to underline their capacity is close to 0 or (orange) or exceed it (red). Capacity allocation can be presented in percentages, man-days, or as a heatmap. You can tell if everything is fine with your workloads with a single glance.

Please, let me know if you need any further explanations.

Nataliya Vasyliv_Reliex_ · Answer

Hi @Stefan Brocanelli 
I'm Nataliya from ActivityTimeline team. Taking into consideration your requirements it seems like our add-on fits your request. ActivityTimeline is a resource planning system where you can see all your tasks/epics/stories on a timeline view. Vacation/day-off, bookings, placeholders are also available in the add-on.

On the Left panel you can see Users or Teams or both as an individual row. On the right located a Timeline dashboard where you can schedule and assign the tasks to users. With drag-n-drop it can be easily managed.

There are ability to choose different scope (weekly/monthly/yearly) and see your past and future planning. Information on a card is customizable and you can select what important information you want to see.

The workload and availability indicator will give you a clear vision of the available capacity of each Jira user/resource. Track and Reports could give you a clear vision on your projects. 
The Milestones panel keeps you milestones like releases or due dates.

If this solution fits your request we can provide a demo session for you if needed. There are many features that could be useful for you. Please feel free to ask me. 
Best, Nataliya

Stefan Brocanelli · Answer

Hi Anna,

it does look very promising! Could you go into detail about the configurability? For example:

- Can I choose a different amount of free time for a person depending on the week? Say during Week 51 Albingo will take 2 days off, so I want to set the "full battery" at 3 days instead of 5.

- I am guessing one has to manually assign an issue to a person in your tool, or does this happen automatically through the assignee field? What about the duration of a task?

- Is it possible to add Releases to such a view in the form of vertical bars?

- Is the text inside of the issue bars customizable? For example could I show the issue key and another arbitrary field?

- Color coding based on priority or issue type?

I hope you can answer my questions!

Thank you!

Cheers, Stefan