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Hi Atlassian Community! 👋 We’re happy to introduce Table View in Planyway for Jira—a new way to see, organize, and quickly update work across multiple Jira projects from one structured view. ➡️ Watch a quick demo 🔗 Try Planyway on the Atlassian Marketplace Why we built Table View We’ve received a lot of feedback from Jira…

Project plans often slip because small issues go unnoticed: overloaded team members, unrealistic deadlines, missing estimates, or work that exceeds available capacity. Planyway Risk AI Agent helps teams identify these risks earlier. Built as Planyway’s first AI agent for Rovo, Risk Detector analyzes project and resource…

A Jira ticketing system helps teams collect, organize, prioritize, assign, track, and resolve work in one shared place. Some teams call every work item a Jira ticket. Others call it an issue, request, task, bug, incident, or story. The words may change, but the idea is the same: something needs attention, and the team…

Hi Atlassian Community, We’re excited to announce a super helpful new feature in Planyway: Workspaces with saved configurations — a new way to save and share your customized views across roadmaps, calendars, workload, and other Planyway views. You know how it goes. You build the perfect view — pick sources, set filters,…

Hi Atlassian Community, We’ve added more flexibility to color-coding your Jira timeline. Previously, items on the timeline could be color-coded by work item type. Now, you can also color-code your timeline by epic or status. This makes it easier to scan your plan and understand what’s going on without opening every issue.…

Trello is a great tool for organizing tasks and keeping work visible. But once your team grows, one question becomes harder to answer: Who is actually available to take on more work? You can have a clear board, well-written cards, and due dates in place — but still miss the bigger picture of team capacity. One person may…

Hi Atlassian Community, We’ve just released a new report in Planyway for Jira — Workload Report. It helps project managers and team leads understand how scheduled work compares to the team’s available capacity. Instead of discovering overloads in the middle of a sprint or planning period, you can now spot capacity issues…

We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature in Planyway: Team Capacity Management! Until now, Planyway allowed you to manage capacity for individual team members, but managing multiple teams at a glance could be tricky. With our latest update, you can now group members into teams and monitor workloads at the team…

Happy to announce a great news! We’ve redesigned the UI to make workload easier to understand at a glance. Each user now has a clear progress bar with workload percentage, helping teams quickly spot overloaded teammates and available capacity. Try it here We're rolling out more capacity planning updates soon. Stay tuned!…

If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “There’s gotta be an easier way to get all this Jira data out of here,” well, you’re in the right place. We’ve got you covered with this easy-to-read guide to exporting data from Jira. 6 Tips to Export from Jira (Like a Pro) Now, let’s dive into the good stuff. Here are 6 legit tips to…

Welcome to the Atlassian Community! Today, we're diving into the world of Trello and exploring how Markdown can revolutionize the way you manage your projects. Whether you're a seasoned Trello user or just starting, understanding Markdown can make your boards more efficient, organized, and visually appealing. *This article…

Sales Manager (Atlassian Marketplace, B2B SaaS) Remote • Planyway • Salary + bonus from new clients Visual planning and tracking for Jira and Trello Every day, thousands of teams plan projects in Jira and Trello with Planyway. Planyway gives teams a live dashboard to know exactly who’s doing what, when they’ll ship, and…

Hey everyone, We're currently hiring for a Sales Manager at Planyway, and I wanted to reach out to the community in case anyone has recommendations or knows someone who might be a great fit. Here’s a quick overview of the role: Position: Sales Manager (Atlassian ecosystem, B2B SaaS)Location: Remote (US time zones…

Most teams run on sprints, and sprint management in Jira feels intuitive. But the value your team delivers to users isn't tied to sprints. It's tied to releases. A sprint is just a step on the road to that value. You can hit every sprint goal and still miss the release. The sprint asks, "Is the work complete?" The release…

There often arises a need to export Jira issues for various purposes like reporting, analysis, or backup. This article explores the different methods to export Jira issues to Excel and CSV formats natively, and using Jira plugins. Exporting Jira Issues to Excel Exporting issues to Excel is straightforward in Jira. Here’s…

For a single project team, Jira is straightforward: a backlog, a kanban board, a sprint. The trouble starts when an organization is managing multiple projects, multiple teams, and a handful of stakeholders who all want to know the same thing — "are we going to hit our strategic objectives, and do we have the resource…

Three methods to make team availability visible—from native workarounds to visual planning tools The cost of “invisible” vacations That's an actual Slack auto-reply. Alex is having a great time. I'm not—Alex owns three critical-path tasks this sprint, and I'm finding out he's gone on Wednesday because the vacation lived in…

You've got 30 minutes before the retrospective and your manager wants a progress update by EOD. You pull up the Jira sprint report—it tells you what happened, but nothing about why. Who was overloaded? Which stories blew past their estimates? Did the team miss the goal, or did unplanned work get dumped on you mid-sprint?…

Ever find yourself wondering, "Where did that sprint go?" or "How did we perform last sprint?" You’re not alone! Whether you're reflecting on team performance, catching up on completed tasks, or simply wanting to revisit past work, knowing how to view past sprints in Jira is essential. Why Look at Past Sprints? Before we…

A sprint in Jira is a time-boxed period when a Scrum team works on a defined set of work items toward a clear sprint goal. For software development and other agile teams, Jira sprints create a predictable rhythm for planning, daily execution, review, and improvement. Jira, a popular project management tool, makes the…

Nobody wakes up in the morning excited to fill out a timesheet. It’s tedious. But tracking time isn't just about billing clients or making sure your developers aren't playing Elden Ring during the daily standup. It is about estimation. If you don't know how long something took last week, you have absolutely no idea how…

You know that reports in Jira exist. They are sitting right there among other tabs, taunting you. But here is what usually happens: you click the "Reports" tab. You represent greeted by a wall of intimidating options—Burndown Charts, Resolution Time, Average Age, Pivot Reports. You panic. You close the tab. And then you go…

Creating an Epic in Jira is easy. Creating useful Epics is harder, because there’s no one-size-fits-all Epic structure that works for every Jira team. But there are some well-established best practices (and a few common anti-patterns) that can help you decide what deserves to be an Epic, how to scope it, and how to keep…

One developer completes a task in 4 hours. The other developer takes 2.5 weeks to complete the exact same task. So how many story points is this task worth? The answer: the same value for both developers. That's because story points aren't supposed to measure how fast a particular person works. They estimate the relative…

So, you’ve mastered the single-project board. You’re moving tickets from "To-Do" to "Done". But then, your boss walks in and asks for a "high-level roadmap" across five different projects. Or worse, she wants to know if your team actually has the capacity to take on that new feature next month. If you’re relying on basic…

Do you feel like you're constantly managing repetitive tasks in Jira? You're not alone. Whether it's auto‑assigning tasks, sending reminders, or transitioning issues through workflows, these are all things you can automate. This guide is here to help you understand how Jira automation can make your life easier, save you…

Ten minutes into your first week with Jira Software, someone tells you to create a board. You create one. It works fine. Six months later, you're looking at a specific column with fourteen cards stacked in it, and your VP is asking when the release ships, and the board has absolutely nothing to say about it. That gap is…

The "one assignee" rule in Jira is broken. Atlassian has held the stance that "one assignee equals one owner". It’s a noble idea designed to ensure accountability. If everyone is responsible, no one is responsible, right? Wrong. In the era of pair programming, collaborative design sprints, and complex QA handoffs,…

Looking for the way to have a visual overview across your Trello boards? Then, it’s time to build your first roadmap with the Planyway power-up! In this article, we’re going to show you how you can do it quickly and effortlessly just in 5 steps: Step 1. Visualize cards on the timeline Planyway visualizes all your Trello…

Atlassian's Jira, a powerful tool for tracking issues and organizing tasks, offers a plethora of features designed to streamline project workflows. One such feature is Markdown, a lightweight markup language that transforms the way teams interact with text in Jira. This article delves into the benefits and practical…