MSP Planner for Jira
MSP Planner for Jira is a professional project scheduling and portfolio governance app for Jira Cloud, developed by Be On Time. It adds a dedicated planning layer on top of Jira's agile issue tracking, enabling organizations to maintain formal schedules with complex dependencies, milestones, baselines, and resource-capacity checks while keeping day-to-day execution in Jira. The app is built natively on Atlassian Forge, so data remains inside the Atlassian environment. Unlike simple Gantt visualizations, MSP Planner implements a professional scheduling engine aligned with MS Project conventions. It supports scheduling modes such as Fixed Duration, Fixed Work, and Fixed Units, deadline-aware critical path analysis, baseline and comparative overlays, and complex dependency types including FS, SS, FF, and SF. This allows project managers to model real-world project logic and identify which task delays actually affect the finish date. The tool includes a lossless MS Project round-trip bridge, preserving identity markers so Jira issues and users remain linked when schedules are exported, edited in Microsoft Project, and re-imported. It also supports hybrid schedules combining Jira-linked tasks with schedule-only milestones or external dependencies. Resource planning uses multi-tier calendars, corporate and project resource pools, actuals from Jira worklogs, and histograms to detect over-allocation. MSP Planner is available through the Atlassian Marketplace for Jira Cloud. It is aimed at PMOs, project managers, and delivery teams that need formal, predictable scheduling without abandoning Jira's agile collaboration model.
- Category
- Project Management Software
- Pricing
- Unknown
Problem solved
Organizations using Jira often struggle to reconcile agile execution with formal project governance. MSP Planner solves this by providing a professional scheduling layer with critical path analysis, baselines, resource capacity planning, and lossless MS Project round-trip, so stakeholders get reliable commitments while teams continue working in Jira.
Use cases
- Portfolio-level schedule consolidation and reporting
- Critical path analysis to identify tasks driving the project finish date
- Baseline tracking and schedule drift visualization
- Resource capacity planning and over-allocation detection
- Exporting Jira schedules to Microsoft Project for external review
- Re-importing MS Project edits without losing Jira issue links
- Hybrid scheduling with Jira-linked tasks and PMO-only milestones
- Deadline-aware what-if planning for delivery commitments
Audience
- Business Users
- Product Managers
- Enterprise
- Startups
Pros
- Professional scheduling engine with MS Project-aligned modes
- Deadline-aware critical path analysis
- Lossless MS Project round-trip with identity preservation
- Resource capacity and over-allocation detection using Jira worklogs
- Forge-native, keeping data within Atlassian Cloud
Cons
- Jira Cloud only; no Data Center or Server version
- Commercial Marketplace app with unknown pricing
- Professional scheduling concepts may require training
- Limited to the Atlassian ecosystem for planning data
- May be overkill for teams needing simple task lists
Official website: https://be-on-ti.me/products/msp-planner-for-jira
Canonical LambdaBase page: https://www.lambdabase.com/tools/msp-planner-for-jira