Time planning for developers

Question

We have Jira on-premise, we use a customized gadget Time tracking and billing reporting collection complete for planning, which allows us to display the remaining estimate for each developer in a clear table based on the individually defined capacity of each developer. We see the status every day whether the developer is overloaded or underplanned. These tables are used by project managers of large teams (agile and waterfall) to plan and monitor capacity for a longer period. Another alternative to this plugin is not yet available and is not even available in the cloud version. Thus, Jira will become an ordinary recording tool for us and we will have to plan in Excel tables again. Or is there a cloud option, a replacement for the TTB plugin? If not, we have to look for another tool that will allow our users to plan "normally". Thanks for your advice.

Table: Assignee - remaining estimate - remaining time - capacity - free time

Pepik Kaaali · Answer

Hi, thanks everyone for the information and inspiration, every application has a bit of what would be useful to us, so we will continue to search, or we will make our own application.

Mary from Planyway · Answer

@Pepik Kaaali

Out of the box, Jira Cloud doesn’t have a built-in view that replicates what your on-prem TTB gadget gives you:

You can use Advanced Roadmaps for some capacity planning, but it’s optimized around sprints and teams, not individual capacity tables.

Native workload views show assignment counts or story points, but they don’t calculate remaining hours vs developer capacity over time.

Dashboards get you close visually, but you end up piecing together multiple gadgets.

One of the practical replacements that does work for cloud and fills the gap you described is Planyway for Jira. Many teams in your situation adopt it because:

🔹 It supports individual capacity planning

You can define:

per-developer capacity (hours per day/week)

working days / non-working days

planned working time vs actual remaining work

workload can be calculated based on original or remaining estimate

🔹 It shows overload and under-utilization

Planyway calculates workloads and highlights when someone has more assigned than they can do within the defined capacity — over multiple weeks or months, not just within a sprint.

All of this works directly with issues in Jira — no manual Excel planning required. But if required, the export to Excel is available.

More about workload management in Planyway

Daria Spizheva_Reliex_ · Answer

Hello @Pepik Kaaali! Yes, there is a Cloud alternative that should cover what you need from the TTB plugin. We created ActivityTimeline for Jira Cloud specifically for this kind of capacity planning and workload visualization.

It handles the core functionality you're looking for: you can define individual capacity for each developer, see daily workload status with color-coded indicators showing who's overloaded or underplanned.

Also, you can get clear table views of remaining estimates against capacity through their Resource Utilization Forecast and Person Availability reports. These reports show available capacity, utilized hours, and free time per person, which you can export to Excel if needed.

The tool works with both Agile sprints and longer-term Waterfall planning, so your project managers should be able to maintain their current planning workflow without reverting to spreadsheets. It calculates workload based on Jira's Remaining Estimate field, similar to what you're used to.

It's worth evaluating to see if it meets your team's specific needs, but it's built for exactly the type of capacity planning and monitoring you're describing. Hope that helps you avoid having to switch tools entirely.