What is Planyway?
Designed for CPOs, product and project managers, engineering leaders, Planyway helps you create sharable roadmaps and manage team capacity to commit realistically. Best of all, it fully syncs with Jira in real-time meaning no double entry, no out-of-sync external tools, just total visibility.
How do I start planning?
App-level plan — use this to create a multi-project or cross-team portfolio.
Space-level plan — use this when managing a specific product or a single team.
How do I add work item sources?
A roadmap is only useful if it isn't cluttered with junk. When you create a plan, you need to tell Planyway exactly what issues to fetch.
You can connect sources in three ways:
Space — get everything related to specific Jira spaces.
Board — visualize data from certain boards.
Filter (JQL) — connect saved filters to keep Planyway fast and focused.
How do I map Jira fields to Planyway?
Since Planyway visualizes Jira data, it needs to know exactly which fields your team uses. If you map this wrong, your roadmap will either be empty or out of sync with reality.
Apply ⚙️-> general settings to all Jira spaces:
Go to Space settings to sync start and end dates between Planyway and Jira. Link Milestones to Jira issue types (e.g. Milestone custom field) if needed.
What can you manage with Planyway?
Planyway is a complete delivery management platform that sits on top of Jira. Depending on your role, you might use it to solve one specific headache or to run your entire delivery lifecycle.
Here is what we will cover in the detailed sections below:
Roadmap planning
Before you assign a single task to a developer, you need a plan that makes sense. Visualize your strategy on a timeline to align stakeholders and manage expectations before the work even begins.
Group timeline by epics.
Set top-level milestones for deadlines and epic milestones to track internal health checks.
Overlay sprints to match high-level plans with delivery cycles.
Map dependencies to instantly spot risks.
Share the roadmap by exporting it to PDF or Excel.
Resource management
Planning a project is only half the battle. Now you need to make sure your team can actually execute it without burning out. Planyway’s Workload view gives you a heat map of your team’s capacity, highlighting exactly who is bored and who is drowning.
Sync with Jira estimates to know the issue's weight.
Define true capacity by customizing work hours and blocking out time for holidays and vacations.
Сhoose to distribute workload evenly with Balance mode or sequentially with Liquid mode.
Drag issues to assign them and auto-schedule based on set dates.
Color-coded indicators will help you identify overload. Resolve it by resizing tasks or reassigning them to colleagues with available capacity.
Time tracking
Roadmaps and capacity plans are essentially educated guesses. Time tracking provides the hard data you need to know if those guesses were right.
Log work manually or via timer whether inside Jira issues, list or calendar view.
Review timesheets to overview the team's logged work and instantly spot missing entries or excessive hours.
Gain immediate insights into progress and costs with real-time reports.
Export reports to CSV/Excel for a deeper analysis.
Planned vs. tracked analytics
Your plan is only a hypothesis. Analytics is the validation. By comparing what you thought would happen against what actually happened, you move from "guessing" to "forecasting". Beyond just hours, planned vs tracked report is great for velocity check and detecting blockers.
Portfolio management
Managers rarely have the luxury of focusing on just one project. You are likely juggling multiple squads, different stakeholders, and competing priorities.
Connect multiple Jira spaces to create a single portfolio view.
See cross-project dependencies that instantly highlight risks to your strategic goals.
Click the Share button to generate a link to your roadmap with saved setup and send this to stakeholders.
Track releases to monitor progress based on Jira Fix Versions.
Team-level planning
When managing multiple teams in Jira, it can be tough to get a clear picture of how work is distributed across different groups. Team-level planning makes it easy to get a clear, consolidated view of team assignments.
Group tasks by teams to see what each team is working on.
Spot resource conflicts by seeing all team assignments in one place.
Track team progress through shared milestones.










