Creating plans
Starting with Portfolio for Jira Server 2.20, the new planning experience is already enabled as an early access feature in your Jira instance. With the early access feature already enabled in Jira, you'll only need to enable the new experience in each plan, to start using the new functionality. Note that a plan will not get the new interface until the new experience is enabled in the plan itself. This applies to both existing plans and newly created plans.
If you prefer to use the previous layout, you can disable the new experience in a plan. You can also choose to disable the new experience as an early access feature from your Jira instance, if you prefer not to use the new experience in any of your plans.
After enabling the new experience, the plan will have the new layout. See Setting up the new experience to know how to enable the new layout in a plan.
Sample plan, with the new experience
Before you begin
There are loading limits to take note of when using plans in Portfolio for Jira. Loading limits essentially restrict the number of issues that can be loaded into a plan.
Loading limits prevent the schedule of a plan from becoming too large for Portfolio for Jira to process. If a plan becomes too large, this can cause your Jira instance to time out. To prevent this, you can consider creating multiple plans and spread the work across these plans, or you can remove certain issues from the issue sources that you've connected to the plan.
Absolute issue limit | The number of issues you can load into a plan. The absolute limit is 5000. |
Project limit | The number of projects you can load into a plan. The project limit is 100. |
Team limit |
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These limits do not apply to classic plans. See classic plan limits instead.
Creating a plan
- In Jira, go to Portfolio (in header) > Create. The 'Create' dialog will be displayed.
- Select Plan > Create.
- Give your plan a name.
- Select one of the privacy options from the privacy drop-down:
- No restrictions (default option) – all Portfolio users can view and access the plan
- Private – only the creator of the plan can view, access, and edit the plan
- Click Next.
- Choose the issue sources (boards, projects, filters) that you want to use for your plan.
If you choose a Scrum board as one of your issue sources, you'll also be asked to choose how you want to estimate your issues. We recommend that you use story points. See What is a Portfolio plan to know more about issue sources. - Click Next.
- Choose the releases that are relevant to your work, then click Next.
You'll only need to choose releases if there are existing releases in Jira, that are associated with the selected issue sources. By choosing the relevant releases, the issues assigned to these releases will display in your plan. - You can choose to accept the suggested the teams that you want to include in your plan, or you can do either one of the following:
- Configure the settings of the teams: agile method (Scrum or Kanban) and weekly capacity
Note that for plans that have boards as issue sources, Portfolio for Jira will suggest the velocity for the team. The suggested velocity will be based on past performance, i.e. if the team previously completed any sprints in the corresponding boards. - Delete a team that you don't need to include in your plan, by clicking more (
You can also add, configure, and delete teams from within a plan. See Managing teams for more details. ) > Delete.
- Configure the settings of the teams: agile method (Scrum or Kanban) and weekly capacity
Click Next.
- Confirm the issues that you want to include in your plan by selecting the corresponding checkboxes.
By default, all the issues are selected. Filter the issues by project, issue source, issue key, or issue summary as needed. - When you've marked all the issues you need, click Done.
- Newly created plans will display issues that start from the highest hierarchy level that has at least one issue. If your issue sources contain at least one issue at the initiative level, then the plan will display issues starting with initiatives in the scope section. If no issues are defined from the issue sources, the plan will display issues at the epic level by default.
- When the new experience is enabled in a plan, the following will take place by default:
- The target start date, target end date, and status columns will be displayed in the fields section.
- The issues are displayed to fit the width of the timeline, based on the earliest start date and latest end date of the issues in the plan.
This applies to newly created plans and existing plans where the new experience has been enabled. You can change these details and settings any time moving forward. See Displaying issue details for more information.
Updating the settings of a plan
In the new experience, you can update the settings of a plan at any time.
Rename a plan | Hover over the name > enter a new name > click Enter. |
Configure issue sources | Before you update the issue sources of a plan, note that changing the issue sources will affect the scope, releases, and teams in your plan.
See Issue sources for more details. |
Delete a plan | Click settings () > Delete. |