✨ Plans, an advanced planning feature in Jira Premium

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If you’re familiar with Jira Premium’s advanced planning feature for cross-functional work, you may recognize it today under two names: Advanced Roadmaps and Plans. As awesome as this feature is, it doesn’t need two names!

To provide a more consistent experience, Advanced Roadmaps will just be called Plans moving forward.

As shared in last month's update on Jira Premium, you will notice this name change in product, documentation, and other resources over the next few months. This change will not impact existing functionality in Jira Premium. Plans will remain accessible through the top navigation and you can continue to count on its powerful planning capabilities.

For guidance on how you can use Plans, check out the best practices below.

Use Plans in Jira Premium when you’re…

✅ Planning and tracking cross-functional work

Plans is best for teams driving cross-functional work. Bring multiple teams, goals, and any mix of issue sources – projects, boards, and filters – into a shared view where everyone can see how their work comes together and why their work is important.

✅ Managing dependencies and capacity

Plans enables teams to schedule and assign work with dependencies and capacity in mind. Map relationships between work items and balance scope with bandwidth on a sprint-by-sprint basis to address potential blockers and capacity constraints early on.

✅ Reporting on cross-functional work

As your teams update and complete issues, plans will automatically update in real time, making it fast and easy to report updates to stakeholders. Save filtered views of your plan and share them in various formats – live embed or static export – depending on your audience.

👉 Click here to learn more advanced planning in Jira Premium

Use Plans with other Jira tools and features for…

➕ Product prioritization and roadmapping

Plans is for planning and tracking product delivery. If you’re a product manager looking for help with product discovery, you can capture insights, prioritize ideas, and build custom roadmaps in Jira Product Discovery and connect to Jira Premium when ready to plan work.

👉 Click here to learn more about Jira Product Discovery

➕ Overseeing multiple business projects

Plans is for planning and tracking cross-functional work from building to launching, including both software and business projects. If you lead a function such as marketing, design, or HR and have several business projects you’d like to oversee in one place, you can create an Overview in Jira Premium.

👉 Click here to learn more about Overviews in Jira Premium

[Dave Mathijs]

Thanks for the clarification @Carol Jang .

Can the new name Plans also be applied to the weekly Atlassian Cloud changes blog post?

[Carol Jang]

Great question @Dave Mathijs Yes, we'll be sure to include this in our Cloud updates when changes take effect end of month 🙂

[Suzanne Seaton]

How are Plans different in Jira Cloud Premium and Jira Cloud Standard?

[Cedric Oglesby]

Hi @Suzanne Seaton Plans is only available in Jira Cloud Premium.

[Suzanne Seaton]

@Cedric Oglesby thanks for response! In Standard, should we refer to it as 'Timelines'. Super confusing because the upper nav names it 'Plans'. We are having a difficult time explaining this to our client. 

[Lauren Allen]

@Suzanne Seaton if you see Plans in the upper nav then you are on premium.  That menu option isnt there on a standard plan.  

Timeline is the name of the view available on boards in Jira Software.  This is available in Standard and Premium though and in Premium it is posible to use both although the Timeline is obviously far more limited.  Timeline will work on boards where only a single project is included as part of the board filter.  It can be toggled off if required, which may make sense if you want people to use Plans instead.  If a board is showing issues from more than one project, Timeline will automatically be turned off and cannot be turned on.

[Suzanne Seaton]

@Lauren Allen that is why we were so confused. But now I see it is just an advertisement.

[Felipe Binimelis]

Hello, is there a way to automatically set the baseline based in the current dates established on the plan?

[Robert Horan]

Thank you for the update!