Creating structure according employee availability

Question

Our company got several development working on few projects at same time. Developers are not strictly assgned to project, cause we are trying to use their working time as best as possible. So developers may be assigned for task from different projects.

Each project has its own structure in Jira and we got big problem with that - even if I create all dependencies between tasks, structure ignores dependencies on tasks, that are not in structure.

We have tried to create non-project structure for department, so lead could plan tasks for its developers, but it isnt work as expected - project-structures ignore time lag that developer works on task from another project.

Looks like structure isnt made for it, but what solution can I offer for departments to plan their tasks and build structures according to developers availability?

Stepan Kholodov · Answer

@Contemplation

Hello, if your goal is to be able to re-use automatically calculated Start & Finish dates from Gantt charts, you can achieve it with Effectors. We have a YouTube video demonstrating how a local attribute can be turned into a regular Jira field value.

But please note - Effectors don't run automatically every time when a change is made. But you can use a script to run them on a schedule and update the Jira fields with relevant data once or twice a day.

I hope this helps. If you need further assistance or have other questions about Structure, please reach out to us directly at our support portal and we'll get back to you shortly.

Best regards,
Stepan
Tempo (the Structure app vendor)

Contemplation · Answer

will look trough Plans functionality, thank you

unfortunately dates that are in "auto" mode on structures are not attribute of task, it is stored in structure, and "manual" mode ruins all benefits of using gantt

Matt Parks · Answer

Are you using Structure Gantt? We no longer use it at my current company, since Plans give us that functionality, but I used it at a previous company and I seem to recall that you could set up the dates in any of the start > start, end > start, etc. configurations.