Forecast assists with every aspect of project management from budgeting and financial tracking to resource management, capacity planning and reporting. Integrating with JIRA increases how Forecast can help manage your projects.
This article includes:
- How the JIRA for Forecast Integration works
- Data flow between Jira and Forecast
- Using the Jira for Forecast integration
- JIRA for Forecast integration resources
How the JIRA for Forecast integration works
While JIRA provides a project management solution, Forecast is an all-encompassing tool that provides verity in resource management, project management and financials. Together, they create a world-class project & resource management application, serving the highly-utilized organization while at the same time ensuring that ad-hoc issues are managed with without unforeseen consequences.
The 2-way data flow enables linking, tracking, and synchronization of information between JIRA issues and Forecast tasks giving project managers the ability to track projects and their progress across platforms maximizing efficiency.
Data flow between JIRA and Forecast
The JIRA for Forecast integration provides a combined 2-way workflow between both platforms thanks to Forecast's ability to seamlessly sync projects and their components.
The components of each platform included in the bi-directional data flow are shown below:
Using the integration
The Forecast platform promotes and facilitates successful project, resource and financial management. Integrating with JIRA only increases how Forecast can help manage your projects.
Suggested ways to use the features of Forecast and the JIRA for Forecast integration to maximize the benefits of both platforms:
- Plan sprints, delegate tasks/issues and leverage resource allocation in projects while managing team capacity in sprints
- Take a Gantt approach to project planning using Timeline
- Find resources with the right skills and availability for your issues
- Create shareable reports, e.g. share a live Gantt chart with your clients
- Register time on issues and automatically create worklogs in JIRA
- Transform time registrations into budget with projections
- Integrate with your accounting system to reduce manual work and risk of error when invoicing
JIRA for Forecast integration resources
Installation and configuration
- Setting up the Jira Cloud for Forecast Integration
- Setting up the JIRA Server for Forecast integration
- Connecting JIRA and Forecast user profiles
Using the integration
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