Features

The following features are available in Structure.Gantt, starting with version 1.0.

• Responsive, configurable, visual Timeline, showing tasks, dependencies and more
• Structure-generated work breakdown structures with folders and unlimited hierarchy
• Finish-to-Start, Finish-to-Finish, Start-to-Start and Start-to-Finish dependencies
• Critical Path highlighting
• Milestones
• Automatic Scheduling driven by dependencies (as-soon-as-possible mode, without resource leveling)
• Manual Scheduling based on the custom fields
• Visualizing existing schedule from Jira Custom Fields or Structure Formulas
• Effort estimation ("Work" value) based on Time Tracking, Story Points, a mix of both, or any other attribute or formula
• Flexible Resource Allocation charts based on the Assignee field, custom fields, or a Structure formula
• Per-resource time zone support and configurable calendars
• Flexible capacity management for resources via a Units value (number of people on a team) and an Availability schedule (vacation, illness, etc.)
• Time tracking based progress
• Gantt chart sharing based on Structure permissions settings
• Printing and Exporting

Current Limitations / Roadmap

The following capabilities are not available, yet. We plan to introduce them in later versions. Keep an eye out for new releases!

• Centralized Resource Management (based on organization-wide resource availability)
• Automatic Planning with Resource Leveling (when will the work be completed – given an amount of work and available resources)
• Roadmapping: Sprint or Version planning
• Tracking versus Baselines (how did the plan change over time)
• What-if Exploration (what happens if I change these values)
• Import from Microsoft Project (or other tools)
• Calendar Importing from other Jira apps
• As-late-as-possible scheduling
• Different configurations for different issue types
• Displaying progress based on actual work value vs. planned work value
• Resource mapping and aggregation of resource allocation values
• Split tasks and rescheduling of the remaining time
• Actual Start and Finish dates
• Copying a Gantt chart
• Writing calculated values (such as Start Date) into Issue custom fields
• Deadlines