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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
Everyone uses the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) a bit differently, but Structure is highly customizable and easy to tailor to your specific SAFe needs.
Step 1: Build a SAFe Structure
To create a structure for SAFe:
- Open the Structure Selector menu and select Create New Structure
- Add initiatives: +Add | Insert | JQL Query | enter the appropriate JQL, such as
"Project = 'project name' AND issuetype = initiative" - (For non-Jira Plans users) Add epics below initiatives: +Add | Extend | Linked Items | choose the type and direction used to assign Epics to Initiatives, such as "Implements" or "Parent (Advanced Roadmaps)"
- Add the rest of your issues: +Add | Extend | Child issues | under Add, select Issues under epics, Sub-tasks, and (for Jira Plan users) Jira Plans hierarchy.
- Sort by rank: +Add | Sort | Field | select "Rank"
If you use a custom field for planning, such as Planning Increments, you can group issues by this field as well: +Add | Group | select the custom field
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.
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.
Build your portfolio roadmap in Roadmunk.
Manage your work in Structure:
Link your roadmap plans to existing work or create new work.
Assign the work to teams.
Manage timelines, dependencies, and resource allocations in Structure.Gantt.
Track work in Structure or Jira. As teams work, their progress is automatically updated in Structure.
Update the original roadmap with up-to-date execution data, allowing leadership to make decisions based on real-time information.
Monitor the financial health of your portfolio using Cost Tracker and Structure.
Manage resources and resource allocation with Planner and Structure.Gantt.
Build custom reports to monitor your portfolio with Custom Charts for Jira.
Strategic Portfolio Management with Tempo Apps