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With Structure, you can easily create a visual overview of your projects – and visualize all the data you need to track on a single screen.

Step 1: Build Your Structure

To create a new structure:

• Open the Structure Selector menu and select Create New Structure
• Use the +Add menu to add issues and build your hierarchy:
  • Use Presets to use one of Structure's preconfigured hierarchies
  • Or configuring your own hierarchy using +Add | Insert | Basic Insert, +Add | Group, and +Add | Extend

Step 2: Add Data

Next, add the data you need to track by clicking the + button at the top-right corner of the structure. You can add as many columns as you need, including:

• Jira fields, such as status, assignee, sprint, or remaining estimate
• Progress - track status based on issue progress, percent completion, or resolution
• Formulas - create your own formulas to compare fields or create a visual report

• Tempo Work Logged - track how long your team is spending on each issue

Once you've added your columns, you can aggregate the data up the structure. To do so, open the column you want to aggregate and select Sum over sub-items.

Looking to visualize your structure data as a chart or other report? Our integration with Custom Charts for Jira makes it easy to build customizable charts from your structure data. Learn more

With Structure, you can track all the issues for upcoming releases – even if they're from different projects – and visualize all the data you need to track on a single screen.

Step 1: Build a Release Management Structure

To create a structure for release management: 

1. Open the Structure Selector menu and select Create New Structure
2. Add the issues you want to track – you can add them manually or automatically using +Add | Insert | Basic Insert
3. Group issues by fix version: +Add | Group | Field | select "Fix Version/s"

Want to include epics and stories?

1. When inserting issues, add epics: +Add | Insert | Basic Insert | open the Issue Types dropdown and select Epic

2. Add your stories: +Add | Insert | Child Issues | under Add, select Issues under epics and (optional) Sub-tasks.

Step 2: Add Data

Next, add the data you need to track by clicking the + button at the top-right corner of the structure. You can add as many columns as you need, including:

• Jira fields, such as status, assignee, sprint, or remaining estimate
• Progress - track status based on issue progress, percent completion, or resolution
• Formulas - create your own formulas to compare fields or create a visual report

• Tempo Work Logged - track how long your team is spending on each issue

Once you've added your columns, you can aggregate the data up the structure. To do so, open the column you want to aggregate and select Sum over sub-items.

Looking to manage resources for your next project? Planner makes it easy to plan resources and capacity for your team.

When team members are working on multiple projects, it can be difficult to track how much work everyone is doing. Using Structure, you can track allocation across projects and reassign work on the fly.

Step 1: Build a Resource Allocation Structure

Insert issues from every project/board the team members work on, and then group them by Progress and Assignee.

To create a new structure:

1. Open the Structure Selector menu and select Create New Structure
2. Add all the issues: +Add | Insert | Basic Insert
3. Group issues by Status: +Add | Group | FIeld | select "Status"
4. Group issues by Assignee: +Add | Group | Field | select "Assignee"

If the status is appearing above the assignee, drag the "Group by Status" row under the "Group by Assignee" row.

This will create a grouping for every team member with at least one issue in the current structure assigned to them. If someone doesn't have any issues assigned to them, they won't appear here. To fix this, simply assign an unassigned issue to that team member, and a new grouping will appear.

Step 2: Add Columns to Compare Workloads

Structure columns allow you to visualize multiple data points in a single view. We recommend one or more of these:

• Status
• ∑ Story Points (if you’re using them)
• ∑ Original Estimate
• ∑ Remaining Estimate
• A custom formula to calculate the remaining effort

Using a Totals columns, the values for individual issues are aggregated up to their assignee, so you can evaluate workloads at a glance.

Step 3: Drag Issues to Reassign

To assign/reassign tasks, simply drag issues from one assignee grouping to another.

Optional Enhancements:

• To allocate resources at the group level, group issues by a custom Team field instead of Assignee.
• Add a WSJF column to prioritize issues, and select Sum over sub-items to balance priorities across resources.
• Manage allocation across sprints by adding a Group by Sprint generator. (Haven't assigned sprints yet? Check out Sprint Planning with Structure!)

• Try Planner by Tempo to plan resources and capacity for your team.

Adding Structure.Gantt makes it easy to identify and resolve overallocations across projects and portfolios.

With Structure, you can track all the issues for upcoming sprints – even if they're from different projects – and visualize all the data you need to track on a single screen. You can even aggregate that data for each sprint.

Step 1: Build a Sprint Planning Structure

To create a new structure:

1. Open the Structure Selector menu and select Create New Structure
2. Add issues: +Add | Insert | Basic Insert
3. Group issues by fix version: +Add | Group | Field | select "Sprints"

Step 2: Add Data

Next, add the data you'll use to compare issue priority:

1. Click the + button at the top-right corner of the structure
2. Select the fields or attributes you want to compare - we recommend:
   • Status
   • Assignee

   • Epic

   • Story Points (if you’re using them)
   • WSJF (or any other metric your team uses to prioritize issues or assess business value)
3. Click the header of any column to sort your issues by that value.

Step 3: Assign Issues

To assign issues to a sprint, drag it from the backlog to the appropriate sprint. You can also reassign issues by dragging them from one sprint to another.

Optional Enhancements

• Aggregate values for each sprint: when adding a column (such as Story Points), select Sum over sub-items

• Group by assignee under each sprint to see how the work is divided across your team: +Add | Group | Field | Assignee

• Use Structure.Gantt to view any blocking dependencies between issues (to help prioritize them)

Tempo's Strategic Portfolio Management solution is a modular approach to help organizations focus their priorities, people, and spend across their portfolio of products and services.

1. Plan and manage your work in Structure.

2. Convert your plans into boardroom-ready roadmaps in Strategic Roadmaps.

3. Monitor the financial health of your portfolio using Financial Manager and Structure.

4. Manage resources and resource allocation with Capacity Planner and Gantt Charts for Structure.

5. Build custom reports to monitor your portfolio with Custom Charts.

The following products are part of Tempo's Strategic Portfolio Management solution. Pick the ones that are right for your teams, or try them all - you can download free trials using the links below.

• Strategic Roadmaps

• Structure

• Gantt Charts for Structure

• Timesheets and Financial Manager

• Capacity Planner

• Custom Charts for Jira

Strategic Portfolio Management with Tempo Apps