Explore the possibilities to do resource planning, capacity management,
time tracking and resource utilization reporting features of ActivityTimeline app for Jira
Quick and efficient representation of scheduled tasks per each person in every specific week.Every row corresponds to one person of selected team, every column is one working day of the week:Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.Blue bars are Jira issues scheduled to specific days.
Workload Indicator displays how many hours are allocated per each person per each work day based on remaining estimate of scheduled Jira issues. In addition, it displays week summary of allocated hours per every person.Different color indicates workload in hours of a day.
View estimates directly on the dashboard. Small light green box will indicate the estimate of how much time is remaining
for the task to be finished.Overdue tasks are marked in red color.It represents Jira's "Remaining Estimate" field.
Assign, schedule, estimate tasks simply by dragging/resizing blue bars around the screen.
Switch back&forth between Long and
Short term planning easily.Scroll through whole periods (Month/Quarter) using special views.
Define projects' milestones, sprints, deadlines etc. View Jira issues based on a Due Date field and add your own milestones on that panel.Filter Milestones Panel events by team with a single click. Milestones panel is located above the regular schedule.
Filter issues by teams, configure multiple dashboards per different teams. One person can belong to multiple teams.
Start typing issue key or any word from issue title and get results immediately. Search results are sorted by relevance so that the system is trying to show most relevant issues on top.
Manage your backlog through filtering/grouping them by numerous criteria.Use your saved Jira filters as well as your Boards and Sprints.
One click and already filtered issues are getting grouped by project/priority/status/release or assignee.
Confugure any filter in Jira, make it as one of your favorites and use it in ActivityTimeline's issues panel.
Left mouse click on any blue issue box will open standard Jira issue dialog in AJAX popup frame. Middle mouse button click
(or left click with Ctrl key hold) - will open issue in a new web browser tab or window.
Visually differentiate/highlight tasks that need attention from the regular ones.For example, you may use Red color to highlight all tasks that need an immediate follow up.
Switch working week by just one click. Schedule tasks for next weeks or months
in advance. Book resource's time for some particular task in advance
Every action accompanying a notification that shows if action is performed or failed.
Let the system automatically schedule (plan) Jira tasks you choose for optimal workload.You could choose which tasks you would like to auto-schedule: all assigned to a team/person or the filtered ones.The system can even schedule Placeholders instead of real Jira tasks so you can review and approve them later on.
Don't want Jira to send a lot of email notification while you are planning different scheduling scenarios?
Use placeholders for Jira tickets and replace them with actual Jira tasks when the plan is settled.Create Placeholder for an issue by drag'n'drop it with Ctrl/Command key hold.
Vacations, Bookings and Placeholders support approval workflow.One user can create them but the other with Admin/Power User permissions should approve it.
Quickly see if a task is on track, overestimated or underestimated.
Generate Issue estimates tracking report when needed.
Get visual display of blocked issues with a red text color.Do not schedule conflicting issues and always stay on track with the overall project.
Give users possibility to manage their personal workload.
Manage skills of your personnel. Generate Skill and Position Availability Reports.
Do you allow your users to edit worklogs in Jira? - If yes, then why not to allow to do it all in one line from AT?
Track how your team logs hours and if everything is according to schedule.Extremely easy to see and understand, who forgot to log his work.
Approve users' worklogs just in one click! You can also perform bulk operations for the whole team at once and save your time from opening each and every worklog record
Generate aggregated reports, grouped by chosen criteria.Get a clear picture of the situation for individual projects/assignees/ issues.
Generate an HTML or MS Excel report based on scheduled tasks to see planned workload for teams and individuals.The system uses "Remaining Time Estimate" field to calculate the workload. In addition, an enhanced project level workload report is available in both HTML and Excel formats.
Generate Timesheet Reports based on logged work.Team Summary, Team Detailed by Project and Team Detailed by Issue worklog reports available in Web and Excel formats.* for Jira Cloud and Jira 7 and above.
Generate People Availability/Capacity Reports based on scheduled work hours.
Need some users for future projects? - Check their availability in a special report.
Never lose track of non-working days of your employees. Generate useful report to stay on the same page with their Vacations and Days off.
Every change in Jira will show up on ActivityTimeline's Dashboard (issue title, type, priority, status, assignee and/or Jira custom fields for planned start/end dates) and every update to issue on AT Dashboard will be propagated to your Jira database (assignee and/or Jira custom fields for planned start/end dates).
Access ActivityTimeline custom data through REST API (admins only).Create custom events like Booking, Placeholder, Vacations, Holidays and so on programatically from the data in other systems.
ActivityTimeline user interface is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Russian and Chinese languages. Administration screens are available in all mentioned languages.
We support Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Edge and IE 10/11.* ActivityTimeline looks nicer in modern web browsers rather than IE 9.
Six different user roles/permission to limit access to the dashboard.
