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Take an agile approach to planning work in Jira

Keep your teams and stakeholders in sync with software designed to help you release more predictably, pivot with agility, and stay aligned to the big picture goals.

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Create and share product roadmaps

Craft high-level roadmaps tailored to individual stakeholders and keep everyone aligned.

Roll your work up to bigger goals

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Plans, an advanced planning feature in Jira Premium, allows you to expand your issue hierarchy above the epic level so work can be grouped under company-wide initiatives, such as programs or goals.

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The timeline, a project view available across all Jira editions, allows you to plan and track work up to the epic level.

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Track the big picture

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Plans provides pre-configured and custom views for planning and tracking work across multiple teams and projects. In the summary screen of a plan, you can oversee issue progress, key dependencies, team progress, and team capacity.

The timeline view allows you to plan work and track dependencies for a single team and project.

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Get ahead of dependencies

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Map dependencies between teams, projects, and more to get ahead of blockers across your organization. Report dependencies to stakeholders by embedding your plan on a Confluence page.

Map dependencies between issues within a single team and project to identify and account for potential blockers.

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Plan with team capacity in mind

Keep your goals on track by ensuring your teams have bandwidth to complete the work they’ve scoped. See multiple teams' capacity on a sprint-by-sprint basis.

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Envision different scenarios

Paint a more complete picture of potential outcomes by creating multiple versions of your plan based on different options or best and worst-case scenarios.

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Keep your teams and stakeholders in sync

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Share your plan

The timeline view and Plans provide filters so you can share the most relevant details for every stakeholder.

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Get updates in real time

The timeline view and Plans are always in sync with the work your teams are tracking in Jira Software.

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Learn how to use Jira Software planning features

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Simplify cross-functional work with Jira Premium

Jira Premium provides advanced planning capabilities, increased automation limits, and greater admin and security controls for managing work across multiple teams and projects.

Get Enterprise level visibility with roadmaps in Jira Align

Jira Align roadmaps support the complex environments of large enterprises with hundreds of teams and thousands of developers, connecting work in progress to strategic objectives.

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Frequently asked questions

What’s the difference between planning features offered in Jira Software Cloud Free, Standard, and Premium? Copy link to heading Copied! show+
  

Plans is an advanced planning feature available in Jira Software Premium designed for tracking work involving multiple teams and projects. The timeline is a planning view available in all Jira Software editions designed for tracking work within a single team and project.

Do Jira Software’s planning features support both team-managed and company-managed projects? Copy link to heading Copied! show+
  

Yes, Jira Software timeline and Plans support both team-managed and company-managed projects.

What is advanced planning in Jira Software? Copy link to heading Copied! show+
  

Jira Software Premium offers an advanced planning feature called Plans.

Plans enables teams of teams to tackle cross-functional work with capacity management, dependency mapping, scenario modeling, custom reporting, and more. To learn more, check out our guide and tutorials on advanced planning in Jira.

Is it possible to get a free trial of advanced planning? Copy link to heading Copied! show+
  

Yes! Start a free trial of Jira Software Cloud Premium to test out its advanced planning capabilities. If you’re an existing Jira Software Cloud customer, you can start a free Jira Software Premium trial by switching your plan to Premium in your ‘manage subscriptions’ settings.

If you’re using Jira Software Data Center, Plans (formerly known as Advanced Roadmaps) is now part of Jira Software Data Center.

What is the timeline in Jira Software? Copy link to heading Copied! show+
  

The timeline is a planning view available in all Jira Software plans that allows you to plan work, track progress, and map dependencies within a single team and project.

Check out our guide and tutorials to learn how to use the timeline view.

What is Jira Align? Copy link to heading Copied! show+
  

Jira Align connects your business strategy to technical execution while providing real-time visibility. It allows enterprises to aggregate team-level data and makes all work visible across your enterprise in real-time. All layers of scale are connected, and everyone can get on the same page to determine scope, roadmaps and dependencies across teams and portfolios. You can easily connect strategic investments with customer value created in order to drive outcomes faster and more reliably. Learn more about Jira Align

Are Jira Software planning features available in Data Center? Copy link to heading Copied! show+
  

The timeline view is only available in Jira Software Cloud. Plans (formerly known as Advanced Roadmaps) is available in Jira Software Cloud and Data Center.