🎁 New Jira Plans features with a bow on top!

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With the holiday season upon us and 2024 coming to a close, we'd like to celebrate the shiny new features we've launched this quarter and help your teams gear up for better cross-team planning in the new year. Here are our greatest holiday hits in Jira Plans!

What's new

✨ Build your Q1 plans in program board

Program board is our newest planning interface in Jira Premium that allows you to plan a program or quarter of work across multiple teams and projects. Customize the number of iterations or columns on your board to match your team’s planning cadence and map dependencies to address potential risks and blockers upfront.

✨ Manage your Jira plans via API

Power users of Jira Plans, this one is for you! Our new API gives you greater control of your plans with automated plan management. Programmatically create, read, update, and delete plans, as well as manage plan settings, permissions, and custom fields. This allows you to greatly reduce manual effort and efficiently plan and track work at scale.

• Check out our new Plans API and Teams in plan API
• Share your feedback with us in Atlassian Developer Community

✨ Connect Jira Product Discovery ideas to Jira plans

Our new Jira Product Discovery integration allows you to connect ideas on your product roadmap to work items in your launch plan. Visualize ideas in a plan as a field, filter, or grouping option to help dev teams understand the impact of what they’re building and help marketing teams understand how to best position the product.

✨ Mark your 2025 calendar with sprints and releases

We’ve also enhanced the calendar view in Jira Plans allowing you to see sprints and releases, filter by type of work, and choose what your work week looks like – whether it starts on Mondays or excludes weekends. Scheduling work has also never been easier; simply drag and drop work items directly on the calendar.

✨ Share any view of your plan with stakeholders

Plans are made to be shared! To that end, we’ve added the ability to share any view of your plan. Now, in addition to sharing the Timeline and Dependencies views, you can also share the Summary, Program, and Calendar views. Communicate plans in Jira or Slack, or embed on a Confluence page to keep stakeholders and relevant teams up to date.

Coming soon

🎉 Break down work in plans with Atlassian Intelligence

Love using Jira’s AI work breakdown feature to recommend tasks for larger work items? So do we! Soon we’ll be bringing this capability directly to the Timeline view in Jira Plans for faster, smarter planning.

🎀 The bow on top

To get started with Jira Plans, try our Jira templates or check out our latest demo!

• Top-level planning template - Plan, track, and report on big chunks of work, such as a program or initiative.

• Cross-team planning template - Schedule and assign work, manage capacity, and track progress across multiple scrum teams.

• Jira Plans demo - Watch and learn about Jira Plans' advanced planning capabilities

[Josh]

Hi @Carol Jang . Those are great additions and I'm looking forward to the new AI feature.

Do you have links to more information (e.g. announcements, KB articles) for those releases?

[Carol Jang]

@Josh thank you for your patience! I've added more details to each feature above. Please let me know if you have any questions or need anything additional.

[Josh]

Hi @Carol Jang . Thanks so much for adding the helpful images and descriptions. Our team will be very interested in these features.

[Josh]

Hi again, @Carol Jang .

Are there any intentions of enabling non-scrum teams to be able to use the Program board (or something similar)?  For others, being able to plan in other increments (e.g. months, quarters) could also be quite powerful and eliminate the requirement of using sprints.

[Carol Jang]

@Josh great question! You can use program board for non-scrum teams today. While we don't offer monthly increments, you can set the column duration to 4 weeks which comes out to roughly a month per column in your board. Each program board can plan up to about a quarter of work, depending on the column duration and # of columns you choose upon creation. You can have up to 2 program boards per plan. Adding sprints to the program board is not required if it's not relevant to the teams using it.

I'd be very interested in learning more about your Jira use case for non-scrum teams. I might be able to offer more resources and pass any feedback along to our Product team. If you're open to chatting about it, please grab time on my calendar here: 

https://calendar.app.google/GM8HEukrgyo2uTaX9