Cross-team planning template
Schedule and assign work, manage capacity, and track progress across multiple scrum teams.
best for
Software development
key features
Advanced planning
Custom reporting
Capacity management
What is a cross-team planning template?
The cross-team planning template is pre-configured to help multiple scrum teams work autonomously in separate boards while coordinating seamlessly in a single project. By bringing the project into a plan, program managers and team leads have a shared space where they can track progress and manage capacity on a sprint-by-sprint basis.
What does the cross-team planning template include?
Plan work across scrum teams
Under the project board, you’ll notice we’ve created two scrum boards; one for each team contributing to the project. Issues from both boards have been brought into a plan, where a program manager or team lead can easily track each team’s progress and the overall project timeline in a single view.
Assign capacity across sprints
In your plan, you’ll notice a preconfigured sprint capacity management view designed for allocating resources on a sprint-by-sprint basis. Visualizing capacity alongside project timeline and releases helps teams create a more reliable plan and set realistic expectations with stakeholders.
Communicate live updates
As issues are updated and completed in Jira, the plan automatically updates in real time with zero maintenance. To report updates to stakeholders, you can create custom views tailored to your audience or use our pre-configured top-level planning view.
Increase visibility
Keep teams aligned and focused on the right things by enabling teams to see how their work contributes to larger business initiatives.
Collaborate across teams
Create a single source of truth where everyone can see who’s doing what and when, and reports can be customized for different stakeholders.
Scalable structure
Organize and visualize relationships between work items from the day-to-day tasks to quarterly initiatives, spanning multiple teams and projects.
How to get started with the cross-team planning template
This template uses Jira Premium to help you plan work across multiple scrum teams.
