How to Use Jira Planner to Plan Software Projects

Jira Planner is an AI planning agent in Jira that turns high-level product requirements into ready-to-build plans (requirements, technical specs, and Jira work items) grounded in your actual codebase, architecture, and Confluence context.

In this video, you'll see how Jira Planner brings due diligence to the pre-build phase, so engineers and AI coding agents start from a plan that reflects the real code instead of a vague prompt. It's useful for product managers, engineering leads, and developers who want to cut the rework that comes from AI guessing at requirements.

IN THIS VIDEO:

• Why alignment is the new bottleneck now that AI makes prototyping easy
• How Jira Planner grounds requirements in codebase context using the Teamwork Graph, including sources like GitHub
• How Jira Planner recommends a plan template and asks clarifying questions
• How the readiness score flags missing acceptance criteria, unmapped repository boundaries, ambiguous constraints, and architectural dependencies
• How to turn a finished plan into prioritized Jira work items and publish it to Confluence

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Why is alignment the new problem in AI-assisted development? 00:26 What is Jira Planner and why plan before you build?

00:44 How does Jira Planner use Teamwork Graph context?

01:12 How does Jira Planner choose a plan template?

01:26 What is the Jira Planner readiness score?

02:03 How to create Jira work items from a plan

02:29 How to publish your plan to Confluence

RELATED RESOURCES:

🔗 Learn more about Jira: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
🔗 Jira for AI-native development: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/dev
🔗 How Jira is evolving for AI-native teams: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/company-news/ai-sdlc

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