BigGantt 18 May 2026

Meet the new BigPicture navigation

A faster, smarter, and more intuitive way to work is here. We’ve redesigned BigPicture navigation to give you a smoother experience and better access to what matters most.

→ Discover what’s new, explore key improvements, and review feature name updates on the New navigation page.

→ The rollout will happen gradually, and the previous navigation will be retired in September 2026.

BigGantt 18 May 2026

Release dateMay 18, 2026

This page outlines the updates included in the latest release of BigGantt.

Version: 8.71


New

Multi-team planning

Multi-team planning custom fields have been added

Now you can assign multiple teams to tasks to perform long-term planning and estimate the needed team effort. Calculate how many resources are needed to implement the plan and how many resources are left for other topics.

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Two new fields have been added:

  • Multi-team planning (Story Points)

  • Multi-team planning (Time Estimates)

The new fields allow you to assign a team and its effort to a task:

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Note: The muti-team estimates are stored in BigPicture and aren’t connected to any Jira field - they do not affect the estimate and team fields of tasks. This lets you later easily compare the initial plan to the actual exectution. This lets you later easily compare the actual work done to the initial plan.

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Use the resources panel to see how the workload estimation calculations. Make sure to adjust the view settings to see the calculations for the planning data.

Note: For the calculations to work, the tasks need to have start and end dates.

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Enhancements

User interface changes

  • The three-dot menu has been removed (applies to the new navigation). The view options can be adjusted in the Indicators drop-down.

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Credits

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