How to create project plan in Jira?
July 24, 2025
Here's a step-by-step guide on how to do project plan in Jira with Planyway.
- Using Timeline view is the most convenient way to plan a project.
- Firstly, add project team members to the timeline to see their tasks and capacity.
- To see assigned tasks across multiple Jira projects, select a project using the Add project button in the left-hand panel.
- You can also plan by sprints — to do this, select "Show issues based on their Sprint" in the View section.
- You can assign tasks using drag-and-drop functionality. Just select a task from the right-hand panel and drag it onto the timeline in the swimlane of the appropriate team member.
- If a task has subtasks, you can visualize them on the Timeline.
- Different types of grouping are available in Planyway: by team, by project, by component, and more.
- Milestones can be added to the plan if needed. You can do this in the first section of the Timeline.
- After this, you can balance workload using Workload view. To evaluate the team's workload, add an original time estimate to each task.
- Planyway helps identify when a team member’s workload equals their daily capacity — and when they are overloaded.
- You can manage workload balance by changing task duration or limiting the number of tasks.
- To monitor plan execution, you can use the time tracking feature, which allows you to log time in three ways: inside the issue on the details panel, in the main section using a timer, or manually and on Time Tracking view.
- To analyze time spent on work, go to the Reports section.