How to do critical path analysis in JIRA ?

[Manoj Dadhich]

I would like to identify the task falling in critical path based on the time lines of the stories.

Please help with the step.

[Kristján Geir Mathiesen · Accepted solution]

Hi @Manoj Dadhich and welcome to the Community!

One way to do this, using just Jira out-of-the-box, is to flag those issues that are on the critical path. Then you can either or both:

a) find them with a JQL search like:  Flagged = Impediment 

b) on a Kanban or Scrum board, create a quick filter (Flagged = Impediment) and thereby see them all by using the quick filter.

HTH,
KGM 

[Sidan Gao]

Hi Kristján, I have same request coming up and your answer is very helpful. Just want to check by "is to flag those issues that are on the critical path", are you saying we need to manually flag the issues on the critical path? Or is there a way to setup in Jira to flag them automatically?

Thanks!!

[dstevens]

If I could find the Critical Path tasks... I wouldn't need to flag them manually.  How to find the critical path tasks?

[Mariano Tallarico _Appricity_]

Hello everyone. I don't know if this is related to BigPicture, or if it is something native to Jira. In my case, we use BigPicture, and we have the same problem. We have the need to work, dynamically, with those tickets that (depending on the context of the project) belong to the Critical path.

I was recently in contact with Big Picture Support, asking them about it, and they told me that at the moment, in BigPicture, "the critical path is just a visual highlight of the tasks in Gantt and there is no way to identify and filter the tasks that are on a critical path according to Jira fields/tags."

That said, they have a pending ticket to cover this functionality: https://appfire.atlassian.net/browse/BP-6068 (use incognito mode to access it).

I hope I have been able to contribute to the cause, if this is still pending. In my case, I will continue looking for alternatives until they make the improvement.

Greetings community.