Summary of Project
We are creating a new experience in Jira to enable capacity planning at the individual level.
The goal of the experience is to enable people managers and team leads to plan capacity of individuals in their team across major work streams and define their allocation against each. These major streams of work can be modelled as Jira epics or higher-level work items.
We are working towards a closed EAP with a limited set of features for a few customers by the end of 2025, followed by an Open EAP in April–May 2026.
We don’t currently have APIs or UI extension points in Connect or Forge; however, we’re committed to building an extensible experience and plan to provide these extension points in the coming months. We’d love your feedback on how we can provide value to both existing and new apps.
- Publish: Nov 17, 2025
- Discuss: Dec 1, 2025
- Resolve: Dec 15, 2025
Problem / Opportunity
Today, customers manage individual capacity and allocations outside Jira—using spreadsheets or external platforms. This fragments data: work planning lives in Jira, while people planning is disconnected, making it hard to get a real-time and accurate view of who is working on what, and when.
Capacity planning is a fundamental part of project management, and we are increasingly hearing from customers the need for an out-of-the-box solution.
To address this need and to maintain Jira’s leadership position in the market of being the best project management tool of choice for ‘all’ teams, we’re building a native individual capacity planning experience that’s accessible to everyone. The experience is designed to address the most common use cases, and we’ll work closely with Marketplace partners to provide extension points, so the experience can be enhanced with deeper functionality and tailored to specialised needs.
Proposed Solution
We are adding a new view called Capacity in Jira Space (previously known as Jira Project), alongside other views like List, Board, etc.
People managers and team leads can, at the start of the planning cycle, assign individuals to high-level work defined in Jira - epics or higher.
Below are some of the experiences we plan to ship between now and May’2026
Now [end of 2025]
- Capacity View in Jira Space, allowing individuals to be mapped to Jira epics and higher-level work items, along with their allocation in % to each
- Ability to capture leave and non-project work, like Training, BAU (business as usual) work
Later ( preliminary and subject to change)
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Time-based allocations: Supporting individual allocations in time (hours, days, weeks), anchored to each individual’s configurable overall capacity (default 40 hours/week, editable).
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Work first resourcing view - Start with the work and its estimated effort, then allocate individuals accordingly to forecast delivery timelines and assess what’s achievable within available capacity.
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Enhanced usability and AI: Usability improvements and AI-assisted capacity planning
Other key callouts
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The experience is envisioned to allow capacity planning against big streams of work and hence supports Jira epics and higher-level work items, not below work items.
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The capacity view will be available in all types of Jira spaces - company-managed, team-managed, as well as business and software spaces.
Asks
We welcome your feedback and suggestions to help refine our solution, and are committed to building an extensible experience. We would specifically appreciate your feedback on:
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What APIs or UI extension points would help make your current apps better?
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What APIs or UI extension points would be useful for creating new app opportunities?