Plan your Sprints easily with Team Planner Issue Backlog feature

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Plan your work even more efficiently with this new Team Planner - Resource Planning and Capacity Planning feature that allows you to drag your tasks from the issue backlog directly onto the plan.

Planning has never been easier!

What is Team Planner?

Team Planner is an app for Jira designed to improve your planning process by providing you with all the tools you need to do it quickly and effectively. Among key features there are:

• Simultaneous editing that allows you and your team to go through the planning process together, and actively participate.
• Adding the main goal to your plan to keep your team focused on what is important.
• Total estimation of your plan (by Story Points or by Original Estimate) summed up and displayed above your plan to help you keep track of your resources.
• Marking non-working days and days off for higher visibility.
• Adding tasks from multiple projects on the same plan.
• Editing your plan by dragging & dropping, and stretching tasks on the timeline.

What is the new backlog feature?

Until recently, you could add tasks to your plans only by choosing a cell on the plan, and manually searching for the issue.

While this option is still available for you to use, we’ve developed an alternative solution, designed to maximize the comfort and efficiency of your planning.

We’ve introduced an issue backlog panel on the left side of your plan. By default, the list displays issues that belong to the main project of the plan. There are 20 issues displayed on the list, but you can scroll down to load more.

Issues can be dragged from the backlog, and dropped in the desired position on the timeline.

If you need a more specific list of issues, you can always apply filters. To do that, you need to click on the icon in the top right corner of your backlog panel.

  

Your issues can be filtered by Project, Sprint, Issue type, Assignee, and Status, or searched with a text input.

What are the benefits of the backlog feature?

The purpose of Team Planner is to give you a clear and comfortable space where you and your team can create plans that are accessible, transparent, collaborative, and easily modified. The new feature contributes to this goal. It allows you to:

• Quickly and conveniently distribute tasks.
• See the issues that you want to put on your plan without searching for them one by one.
• Filter the issues so that only relevant ones are displayed on the list.

The backlog feature can be particularly useful during Sprint Planning meetings. You can filter the issues to see only the ones prepared for the upcoming Sprint. Having them all displayed next to your plan will increase visibility - it will allow you to see more clearly what needs to be done, and decide who and when should do it. Combining it with other features, such as plan goal or total estimation, you get a full package of tools designed to effectively improve your planning experience.