Resource and Capacity Planning App in Jira

[Celina Kim]

Hello,

I'm looking for a Jira plug-in that can help with my team's resource and capacity planning. I found some apps in the Jira Marketplace, but they all use time tracking data. I'm wondering if there’s a good app that uses story points instead of time.

Any recommendations? 

Thank you in advance!

[Tomasz Korusiewicz_SolDevelo]

Hello @Celina Kim

If you are looking for a resource and capacity planning application for Jira, then we might have something just for you!

“Team Planner - Resource Planning and Capacity Planning” is an app which allows you to plan your team’s work on an accessible and easily editable timeline.

 

Per your requirements, you can assign tasks on your timeline that include their story points, which are also displayed on a progress bar in the upper right corner of the app and per each user:

With Team Planner, you will be able to plan the work of your team in a concise and transparent manner and track their story point progress at the same time without moving between apps or Jira tabs.

You can try out the app for free for 30 days through our marketplace page. In case of any questions, we sincerely encourage you to contact us via our customer portal or book a demo session with us under this link.

Cheers!
Tomasz
SolDevelo Team

[Rahul_RVS]

Hi @Celina Kim 

Since you mentioned that you are looking for a mktplace app, do explore our addon

Capacity Planner

The app allows to plan / track capacity both for time tracking data and story points.

With the add-on you can :

• Maintain the team members daily capacity in a template and decide work allocation.
• Define resource leaves.
• Plan capacity either for time estimates or story points.
• Check the effort progress of the resource and make decisions accordingly.
• Track the actual time spent per task

 Do try it out.

Disclaimer : I work for the vendor who built this app

[Svitlana Samotis _Reliex_]

Hi Celina, 

Our plug-in, ActivityTimeline, does indeed support the use of story points for planning and tracking your team’s resources and capacity. 

While the system allows you to work with story points, the underlying calculations and resource allocation are based on hours. To bridge this, you can set up a conversion factor to define how many hours correspond to one story point. This conversion translates the abstract measure of effort into a concrete measure of time, which can then be used effectively for planning and resource management.

If you’d like to see how this works in practice, I’m happy to provide more details or arrange a demo.

Regards, 

Svitlana, ActivityTimeline team 

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Celina Kim

depending on your exact use case and requirements, you might like the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira.

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a number of advanced features, including support for (configurable) issue hierarchies, issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting.

With these, you can build a view like e.g. this in just a couple of clicks:

This is really just one of a virtually endless number of possible views and reports; you can also view and group by any other issue fields, configure different sum-up styles, etc. etc.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes