5 minutes
What are plans in Jira?
By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: * Describe the purpose of plans * Explain how plans relate to Jira data * Navigate through plans
Sections
- What are plans?
- The three factors of a plan
- Navigate a plan
course
Visualize work across teams with plans in Jira
duration
55 minutes
level
Intermediate
product
Jira
Accurately map and predict work
Maintain a single source of truth for your team’s ongoing work with plans in Jira. Learn how to use the auto-scheduler to make recommendations based on your team’s work, capacity, and timelines, and easily identify dependencies between work items to prevent bottlenecks.
After this course, you’ll be able to:
- Use your team’s data in Jira to accurately determine resources, scope, and launch dates for future projects.
- Create a plan in Jira, add work items, and highlight key information.
- Automatically schedule work and predict the impact of data changes.
- Indicate milestones and deadlines with releases and cross-project releases in your plan’s timeline.
- Create different scenarios to explore the impact of changes to scope, capacity, or deadlines.
- Customize views for plans using groups and colors and share with stakeholders.
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7 Lessons in this course
10 minutes
Create plans in Jira
By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Create a simple plan - Create work items in plans - Describe how teams interact with plans
Sections
- Create a plan
- Add data to plans
- Add users to plans
10 minutes
Automatically schedule work with plans in Jira
By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Utilize the auto-scheduler for plans - Predict how data changes will affect the schedule
Sections
- Use plans to schedule your work
- Information the auto-scheduler uses
- How the auto-scheduler impacts data
- Let’s explore an example!
10 minutes
Define dependencies between work with plans in Jira
By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Visually define dependencies between work in a plan - Identify bottlenecks using the Dependencies report
Sections
- What are dependencies?
- Map multiple dependencies to a work item
- Create a dependency
- View the Dependencies report
5 minutes
Configure releases with plans in Jira
By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Configure releases for one or multiple projects in plans
Sections
- Create a release in a plan
- Configure dates for a release
- Create cross-project releases
5 minutes
Plan experimentally with scenarios in Jira
By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Estimate deadlines and adjust scope using scenarios
Sections
- What is a scenario?
- Create a scenario