Capacity Planning in Confluence

Question

Hi,

We would like to introduce 'Capacity Planning', however, it is available since we are using Jira Standard, can only be available in Jira Premium.

Is 'Capacity Planning' in Confluence will give the same features like Jira premium.

Regards,

Amitava

Michał Kowalewski_SolDevelo · Answer

Hi @Amitava Chattopadhyay

As @Amanda Barber said, you may consider some applications for capacity planning from the Atlassian Marketplace.

One such application is Team Planner - Resource Planning and Capacity Planning, which was developed by SolDevelo, the company I'm working for.

App allows for creating multiple plans to which you can add your users, Jira tasks, days off, plan goal etc.

The plan itself is very user friendly and in the form of a calendar.

Additionally you can display such estimations like Original Estimate value or Story Points.

Additionally, the plan can be simultaneously edited by your team, for example, during the planning sessions. There's also a possibility to add days off to your plan for users.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me here. Or if you would like to book a demo to see how our apps work go to this link.

Kind regards,
Michał
SolDevelo Team

Amanda Barber · Answer

Capacity Planning in Confluence is simply a template, so you'd manually fill in the information. https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/templates/capacity-planning

There's also a guided play: https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/plays/capacity-planning

If you have premium Jira, you get to use Advanced Roadmaps/Plans which you can learn more about here: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/guides/advanced-roadmaps/overview#how-to-get-started

Depending on what you're looking to do, the Confluence template may suffice, but may not be as easy to manage. There are also Jira apps that may be able to help you out: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?query=capacity%20planning