Getting started with Swanly

Owned by Nikki Zavadska
Last updated: Apr 29, 2024 by Michelle Ruoff
3 min read

What is Swanly?

Swanly is a project and release management app built for Jira Cloud to help teams plan, manage, and deliver issues and releases across many Jira projects in a roadmap timeline and compact list view.

Swanly also generates reports on issues and releases, where you will find information about scope progress based on issue count, story points, and time tracking, together with a burndown chart and other granular information.

Swanly - Roadmapping and Planning app for Jira Cloud

There are two views available in Swanly - Issue and Release. Depending on how your team manages their work, you can use either or both at the same time.

 

Managing and planning Issues (Epics, Stories, and others)

If your team manages work on the issue-level then Swanly’s Issue view is the right fit for you. You can schedule any type of issues, from any Jira project, in a simple roadmap timeline, then track progress and create reports for each issue.

Managing and planning Releases

Swanly’s release view allows you to plan Fix versions (Jira Releases) in the timeline and track progress with progress reports. You can also create cross-project releases, which are releases shared across multiple projects.

Six and a half steps to get you started with Swanly

  1. Install the app from the Atlassian Marketplace.

  2. Access Swanly via Apps > Swanly Roadmap.

Access Swanly roadmaps in Jira

  1. Choose the view you wish to work with - Release or Issue.

  1. Import projects.

  1. Schedule issues or releases on the timeline.

  1. Open the issue or release report view to plan and track progress.

  1. View issues and releases in a compact list view.

And that’s it! 🚀

Release and Issue view don’t share imported projects, Templates, and other settings

This allows you to differentiate between setups for each view; if say, you want your technical team to use the release view and non-technical teams, the issue view.

What’s next?

If you’re interested in exploring how Swanly can help you further, take a look at: