Capacity Planner (formerly Planner by Tempo)
Plan work anywhere and visualize allocations across all of Jira – even for projects that aren't in your Gantt chart.
Capacity Planner provides an easy way to plan work for your teams, or have that work automatically planned whenever a new issue is created. Our integration with Capacity Planner allows you to:
Use Capacity Planner data to schedule work within your chart
Plan by teams or individual users
Include planned work from across the company when considering resource usage, even for issues not represented on your Gantt chart
Enabling Planner Mode
To use scheduling and resource data from Capacity Planner:
Open Gantt Settings
Enable Planner mode
Select whether you want to schedule based individuals or Tempo Teams
When Planner mode is enabled, many of the options on the Scheduling and Resources screen will be grayed out, as this information will be pulled from Capacity Planner instead.
In order to use Tempo data for resource availability, the Jira admin must first connect Structure and Capacity Planner.
If you receive a 'Jira feature is switched OFF on Capacity Planner side' message, ask your Jira Admin to go to Apps | Tempo | Settings | Planning Time and enable Sync plans with Jira issues. Once this is enabled, return to the Gantt configuration and select Use scheduling and resource data from Capacity Planner again.
Individuals vs. Team
When using Planner mode, you can visualize and schedule work based on individual users or Tempo Teams.
Individuals
When planning for individuals:
The Resources panel displays all users that have work assigned to them in the structure
The Resource Usage panel displays different information, depending on whether you’re using Planner data or Gantt data:
Planner data (the Tempo icon is highlighted) - displays the total amount of work planned for individuals, across all projects, even for issues not in the chart
Gantt data - displays the total amount of work assigned to individuals within the Gantt chart
Teams
Team Planning mode allows you to visualize time for your teams, as well as each member within a team. When using Team Planning and Tempo data, the resource usage is rolled up. In the example below:
Team members (ex. “Evi Steele”) - displays individual allocations from Capacity Planner
Team (“Android Team”) - shows epic-level work allocated to the team in Capacity Planner
Overall group (“Temp Team: Android Team”) - shows the combined allocation for the team and its team members
Don’t see allocations in the Resource Usage panel?
Click the Tempo icon
Make sure you have permission to view the plan data
Scheduling and Resource Allocation with Capacity Planner
When Planner mode is enabled, tasks will be scheduled according to the information provided by Capacity Planner:
If an issue has a plan associated with it, Plan Start and Plan End dates will be used to schedule the task.
If there is no plan associated with the issue: the issue will be automatically scheduled.
To apply custom manual scheduling rules to select tasks, use a Slice.
If your structure is organized with stories under epics, make sure Treat parent issues as groups is switched off to view your Team plans.
Resource Usage: Gantt vs. Capacity Planner
By default, the Gantt chart only shows utilization within the scope of the chart – so any work planned for issues that aren't in your structure (and Gantt chart) won't be accounted for.
Using Capacity Planner data, Gantt can consider allocations from any issue – even if it isn't in the chart – when determining resource allocation. So if you're scheduling Project A, but someone on your team has work planned for Project B, that time will be considered when determining their availability.
Switching Between Capacity Planner and Gantt Data
In the Resource panel, you can toggle between using Capacity Planner data or the Gantt chart's data to calculate utilization by clicking the Tempo button.
