I would like to add hourly capacity for a team allocated to a project
@Anneliese Pretorius,
Are you referring to Advanced Roadmaps? As far as I am aware, work management projects don't have any sort of team or team capacity.
@Kian Stack Mumo Systems . Ok. Can perhaps advise which project types does?
@Kian Stack Mumo Systems or even better, individual capacity?
Hi @Anneliese Pretorius
Not sure if it can be achieved with JWM. Other options could be using Advanced Roadmaps or an app. There are multiple marketplace apps for capacity planning
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=jira&query=capacity
We have also built an app for the same use case.
Capacity Planner
The app allows to store the capacity for individual users and save as templates. which can be mapped to a sprint to track the allocation and remaining time per user. Do try it out.
Disclaimer : I am part of the team which developed this app
"Project types" do not. But you can create advanced roadmap plans with teams tied to them. Each team can have a capacity them.
https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/create-and-add-teams-in-advanced-roadmaps/
Coming to this late, but the two questions in this thread that never got answered are the important ones, and they're still worth answering for anyone finding this.
"We do not do sprints — how do I get capacity on non-agile projects?"
Plans allocates capacity per iteration. On a scrum board that's a sprint. If your team doesn't run sprints, there's no bucket for the capacity to attach to, which is why the field never appears no matter how the team is configured. The kanban suggestion doesn't really close this — you can put kanban work in a Plan, but you're back to capacity with nothing to allocate it against.
The native workaround is to manufacture time buckets. Use fixVersions as your periods (a version per month or per week) and treat each one as a planning bucket, then sum Original Estimate per assignee per version with a filter. It's crude, it's manual, and you'll maintain it by hand — but it's free and it gets a flow team a per-period supply-versus-demand number.
"Or even better, individual capacity?"
This one has a firm answer: Plans doesn't do it, on any tier. Capacity in Plans is team-level by design — the reasoning being that agile commitments belong to the team, not the person. That's a defensible philosophy and a real gap for anyone whose team has specialists, part-timers, or people split across projects.
The gap matters more than it sounds. A team rollup can show comfortable headroom while two people on it are badly over-committed, because the average absorbs them. And someone allocated half-time to two projects reads as fine on both plans, since neither one sees the other half. There's no native view that sums a person across projects.
If you go looking for an app for either of these, three questions to ask, because they're what separate the tools:
Disclosure: I build a Jira app in this space — MassMod Agile Tools for Jira, free up to 10 users — which does per-person cross-project capacity with scrum, weekly, and monthly cadence lanes on one timeline. The fixVersion workaround above is genuinely worth trying first if you only need one team's numbers.
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