Hey Folks. We are a small marketing team leveraging JIRA to manage creative work like emails, blog posts, display ads, and some printed materials like brochures and Direct Mail. I am hoping for some guidance on how best to track our due dates in JIRA in a way that allows us to hit project deadlines while still allowing individual users to track their workloads and deadlines appropriately.
Here is a breakdown of how we are using JIRA right now:
Here is where the difficulty comes in:
Ultimately, here’s what I would like:
Thanks in advance for the help!
@AJ Rahm Yes. Scrum would help you do this quite well. Take your "Brochures" Issue Type. Let's say you need to deliver that Brochure for the conference on July 31. July 31 is the deadline. But of courses you have 10 or 15 little tasks leading up to that.
So, if you use Scrum, you would do something like this:
There are a lot of details in there that I glossed over. But that is the basic premise. Scrum will help you address the problem of only having one due date (because each task in the epic has its own due date) and your problem that "no real way to estimate a single individual’s workload at any given time" because you can plan and estimate (with story points) tasks each week (or each sprint).
I hope this helps even though it is only the beginning. You'd have to learn and start using scrum. But scrum is really not that hard. It's just a new habit.
We use scrum on our marketing team and work in a similar way. I wrote a book about it.
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