Increase team roster, prevent burnout, and better connect activity to results

Today we’re announcing three major updates to our collaborative work management platform that will further help teams be incredibly productive:

• Improve workload management and resource allocation with Jira Resource.
• Streamline project delivery and profitability with Jira for Professional Services.
• Streamline marketing work management in a more powerful way with Jira Marketing.

Jira Resource

Jira Resource provides better visibility into team workload and usage, plus a new role-based organization of resources and better time tracking. For teams that need to manage, allocate, and measure the resources used to complete tasks and projects, resource management is critical. The latest version of Jira Resource includes:

• a new usage report, to monitor usage by billable and non-billable time;
• advanced resource management, with intuitive workload diagrams, including drag-and-drop resource allocation, flexible grouping and drill-down, and role-based resource scheduling; Y
• Easy time tracking with centralized timesheets, allowing teams to track billable and non-billable hours, and providing a timesheet for the manager to more accurately monitor time recording.

Jira Resource is available as a paid add-on for Business plans and higher. 

Jira helps service teams and organizations improve project delivery timeliness and increase profit margin and customer satisfaction by providing visibility into all stages of a project’s lifecycle, enabling It allows you to optimize the use of resources and automate repeatable processes. This solution enables organizations to meet growing demand while expanding their business. Jira for Professional Services includes all the core features of the Jira platform, as well as:

• project portfolio management and automation to streamline acceptance, workflows and repetitive projects to accelerate service delivery and scale on demand;
• a centralized work management platform to foster collaboration and customer visibility;
• simplified time tracking so teams can focus on customer engagement and billable work;
• intuitive resource management to balance team workload and minimize burnout or downtime;
• custom reports and dashboards to monitor and manage key KPIs (billable time, utilization and project delivery).

Jira Marketing

Jira has also expanded its popular Jira Marketing solution with major new features such as:

• Great visibility into campaign dossiers and creative projects with custom field visualization and consolidation.
• Clear approval of campaigns, assets, and other work with new project and task approvals. All of this is also available on our mobile app for approvals on the go. 
• Jira Publish now integrates to improve digital asset management from creation to launch and protect brand identity across campaigns and channels.
• Jira Proof now offers side-by- side comparison of files to ensure feedback is implemented, image and document rotation to review files from the correct perspective, and overlay comparison to quickly compare two versions of a file with a slider.
• Modular project creation based on information from an application form, to easily jump-start more complex creative or marketing projects with less manual work.

Get a quick overview of marketing impact and effectiveness with a pre-built campaign dashboard available from Jira Marketing Performance.

These updates demonstrate our commitment to developing a platform and set of tools that help organizations work more effectively, become more agile, and not only achieve desired results, but also analyse work against results to Calculate the performance of initiatives in real time. Explore at https://activitytimeline.com/blog/how-to-do-resource-planning-in-jira-using-apps to know more about Jira.