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Is it possible to manage developer capacity in Jira?

E_B_

We are just starting with Jira and I was wondering if that is a built way to manage developers' capacity (without extensions - 3rd party software).

Basic concepts like you can find on Azure DevOps for example: Persons X availability for this sprint is 70 hours, that time gets reduced as I assigned tasks to person X (assuming all tasks have estimated hours). I have some visuals where I can easily spot resources who are over allocated.

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Ollie Guan

Hi @E_B_ ,

Recently Atlassian announced a new feature called Individual Capacity Planning for Jira, which is currently in Early Access:

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Introducing-Individual-Capacity-Planning-in-Jira-Join-our-Early/ba-p/3161425

If this direction sounds relevant to you, I’d recommend signing up for the EAP in the article above, trying it out, and giving concrete feedback to the Jira team.

Rahul_RVS

Hi @E_B_

For Jira cloud, If you would like to try an alternate mktplace app for tracking resource workload and capacity planning across multiple projects/boards, take a look at

Capacity Planner

The app offers:

1. Resource Tracking and Allocation : The app allows you to monitor and track various resources by adding them as part of a template, and their work allocation across multiple projects / sprints.

2. Real-time Visualization: Provides intuitive charts, graphs to visualize resource utilization and capacity levels in real-time.

3. Full Sprint / Project Fix version Capacity and Monitoring

Mode details here

Disclaimer : I am one of the app team member

Capacity Planner.jpg

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E_B_

Wow, that looks great, the early access program appears to be closed but I will reach out to Atlassian and see if they can get us in. Thanks a bunch

E_B_

I will check it out, thanks.

Mary from Planyway

Hi @E_B_

Jira by itself doesn’t have built-in developer capacity planning.

Out of the box Jira only has:

Original Estimate on issues
Basic workload views in dashboards
No automatic capacity allocation or over-allocation visuals

So you can’t do true capacity planning without a third-party extension.

A tool that does solve this nicely is Planyway for Jira — it lets you:

✔ Set each team member’s available hours
✔ Use issue estimates to auto-calculate workload
✔ See visuals of who’s over- or under-allocated
✔ Plan and adjust assignments on a timeline/Gantt

If your goal is to manage and visualize developer capacity, Planyway is a simple and effective option for Jira.

Manage team workload by mapping out issues on the timeline and allocating them to teammates. Check who is working on what and optimize your workload process with Jira resource management.

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