Learn more about capacity planning.įor tips and best practices on effective capacity planning in Advanced Roadmaps, check out this short video.Now that you've configured the client with a complete request URL, it's time to authenticate and authorize yourself.
It can also show you when sprints are overbooked (when allocated work exceeds the team’s capacity). The sprint planning feature allows you to allocate work to each sprint, project release dates, or milestones based on teams' capacities. However, sprint planning is exclusive to teams that use scrum boards as an issue source. This is because scrum teams work in time-boxed iterations (sprints), while kanban teams progress through a continual flow of work.Ĭapacity planning in Advanced Roadmaps is available to both scrum and kanban teams. While both types of teams can measure capacity with time (days or hours), a scrum team can also use story points (a relative estimation of required effort). Measuring capacity differs between scrum and kanban teams. It can be used to estimate a team’s ability to complete work by a particular milestone and is invaluable for evaluating risk when making key decisions.Ĭapacity is added to the plan by team and domain leads who regularly assess their team’s availability, resource allocation, and the prioritization of other projects. Watch nowĬapacity reveals the units of work that a team undertakes in a given period of time. For more information about configuring and customizing your hierarchy levels, click here to learn more.įor tips and best practices on configuring the issue hierarchy above epics in Advanced Roadmaps, check out this short video. When positioned above the epic level, the initiative can be used as a container for epics. For example, you can create an initiative hierarchy level to represent company-wide goals. If you plan and track work across an organization, you’ll need to create hierarchy levels above epics. In Advanced Roadmaps, subtasks can’t have teams assigned specifically to them, they inherit the team assigned to the parent issue.
Epic - A large body of work that can be broken down into stories, tasks, and bugs.The hierarchy in Advanced Roadmaps is inherited from the default issue types in Jira Software: Depending on how your work is structured, hierarchy levels represent different levels of detail in a plan’s scope and show how they’re related.
A hierarchy connects small, process-based tasks to cross-functional deliverables and escalates them to broad organizational objectives.