Export from Jira (all Versions) to MS Project 2016

[Philip Monckton]

I can see that there is a facility to import projects into Jira from MS Project, but can we Export them back into Ms project to consolidate the whole Programme into one view etc

Regards

Phil

[GPY]

I second that need, MS Project is a fantastic tool to track resource and cost management, as well as to detect variance between your baselines and the current state of a project. 

It is especially useful when you are running projects with dependencies with other software and non-software projects (hardware product, R&D, marketing launch prep, etc.) 

The reporting in JIRA provides limited inside to tell us if we are on track to reach our goal by the deadline or not. It just tells you weather or not we met our target last sprint. 

I also have to report on the allocation of resources belonging to other department or people with very specific skillsets who will work on and off on a project and join sprints only at 20% of their capacities.

So yes exporting the sprints to MS Project and building a company wide macro view there would be super useful.  

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There's no export to MS Project.

I don't think there ever will be - Jira is very aligned with Agile processes, where-as Project is totally Waterfall.  Agile practitioners do not see any reason to provide an easy way to go back to processes that really don't work.

[Philip Monckton]

Wow ... how blinkered an answer is this . So basically your saying that reporting your progress and achievements alongside the progress and achievements of other projects is going back to a process that doesn’t work. 

how is your management deciding on budget allocation and resource allocation across multiple projects and programmes if they can’t see the full picture.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's the opposite of "blinkered", I'm looking at all the factors, not just trying to report via a single tool which is poorly suited to reporting, and tends to represent what the managers would like to see rather than the reality of the situation.

Reporting progress is best done in the tool where you record and track the progress.  No-one records progress in MS-project, it's a tool for building a view of how you would like a project to go, not a tracker.

My management would never use ms-project to do budgets or resource management, because it's not for that.

My point here is more about process and tools than about your orginal question though.  There is no direct ms-project export because Atlassian don't see any point - most of their users have no use for it because Project is a bad tool for reporting on how they are working.