Making key moments using plans easier

[#1]

Hey everyone,

I’m excited to tell you about a bunch of enhancements in the Jira Plan we’ve just launched. Taken together, we hope these improvements simplify using plans for your teams so you can focus on the harder work.

1. We know setting up capacity planning can be tricky for some customers, so we’re better sign-posting moments to link teams to your plan issue source. We hope this will get your teams up and running with capacity planning much faster.
   
   

2. Customers told us that not all plan users remember to save their changes to update issues. This can be a source of major frustration when large chunks of work done in plans don’t then show up in projects. So, we’re making it more obvious that you need to save work as you go. When your team see the blue Unsaved changes button with a number next to it, it means there are changes yet to be saved. We hope this new label (previously 'Review changes') helps infrequent and new plan users to start saving work in plans straight away.
   
   

3. When creating an issue from the more menu, we now display all possible issue types. Previously, we only displayed the issue type hierarchy, and many of you mentioned that it adds extra clicks to find the right issue type.
   
   
   
   
   

4. Within the plan timeline you can now remove issues. These issues will still show up in your project. You can also permanently delete any draft (yet to be saved) issues from the plan timeline.
   
   
   

5. Previously, when selecting ‘Group by’ issues on plans, child issues were filtered out. Now, child issues will display a complete picture of the work. If required, users can apply a filter on top of the ‘Group by’ to exclude issues when the extra visibility creates too much clutter. 
   
   
   

6. Previously, we grouped issues without a (highest issue hierarchy level) parent under “Issues without parent,” and they collapsed by default. We heard this behaviour hid those issues. So, we’ve removed the “Issues without parent” header and only show the issue type grouping.
   
   
   

We hope these changes remove unwanted moments of friction. We’d love to hear how this may help your teams to use plans.

[Mike Vitale]

Hello! I am seeing some UI issues, and not sure if it's related to the recent changes:

• Navigation has change, moving view settings and the ability to switch between Grid vs Timeline view, among others
• I can not switch from grid view back to timeline view (when in Grid view it says I'm in timeline view, with no options to switch to other than Teams, Releases and Dependencies Report)
• There is also a blank space to the right in both Grid and Timeline view which limits visual capabilities on the page

Can you please clarify how this can be corrected?

[Michel_Audet]

Based on the above screenprints much of the functionality that we had should still be there but as mentioned here - i am now missing the ability to see gant vs fields only, nor do i have the search option and everything has shifted with no left nav or summary view.  the above screen shots still shows most of that (like the search box).  Mine looks more like Mike's view above.  are we missing a setting now or is this how it is supposed to be.  again based on the release screen shots I feel like something is incorrect.

[Mahtab]

Hello, just jumping here as we are also getting reports from customers complaining about what Michel and Mike has shared above, where options such as List option,Gantt chart is missing and their view of the page is different than the one shared by @Irene . 

Please review and fix as we are getting more and more tickets about this. 

Regards,

Mahtab

[Irene]

Hi all ( @Mike Vitale , @Michel_Audet , @Mahtab ),

The UI issues you saw are unrelated to these changes. But I'm glad to let you know that the fix for that issue was rolled out a couple of hours ago, so it is now resolved. 

Cheers!

[Mahtab]

Awesome, thanks for the update @Irene 

[Kishan Sharma]

Some useful changes, thank you @Irene for the update!

[Hala ElRoumy]

Very nice and helpful changes, Thanks for sharing @Irene!