Plan, schedule, share, and review your agile releases with ease using Visor’s agile release plan templates.
In just a few minutes Visor’s AI Smart Templates gives you all the custom agile release planning views you need. Visor has two-way integrations with apps like Jira and Asana too, enabling you to import and update real-time project data in those apps.
Visor’s AI uses your preferences and project data to create customized agile release planning templates for you in minutes, saving you time and effort.
To get started, click the button below, create your free Visor account, and when prompted, select “Use Smart Template.”
Smart agile release plan templates are visualizations configured by Visor’s AI based on your specific requirements and objectives.
Visor’s AI only needs a small amount of information to configure your release planning templates. It gets to work immediately in the background, and configures your release plan templates in a few minutes or less. Your visualizations can come in the format of Gantt charts, Kanban boards, timelines, and table views.
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Visor Agile Release Plan Templates – Key Benefits:
Import Data From Jira and Other Apps
Use real-time data from apps like Jira, Salesforce, and Asana into your agile release plan templates in Visor’s. Create and share customized, crystal clear views of your agile release plans that stay in sync and up-to-date with your work and task management apps.
Full Range of Customizable Agile Release Plan Formats
Quickly create agile release plans, trackers, review boards, and other visualizations using Gantt charts, Kanban boards, or other view types, which all stay in sync as your plans change and progress. Equip your team with different formats for different purposes without extra effort.
Generate fully-configured and customized agile release plans, sprint trackers, and other visualizations in just a few minutes. Save time and effort so that you have more time to discuss and execute.
Infuse Your Agile Release Plans With Best Practice
Visor’s AI learns from thousands of agile release plans created by other users to generate visualizations that will meet your requirements. The AI also infuses your release plans with best practices, to help you avoid the mistakes and frustration of trial and error.
Fully Customizable Agile Release Plan Visualizations
Visor’s AI does the heavy lifting, but you still have full control. After the AI has taken care of the time-consuming sprint plan configuration, you can change and customize any detail you like. The AI saves you time, but you’re still in charge. You can even use the AI to create new versions of your sprint plans as and when you require.
Keep your stakeholders updated at every step with sprint plans and trackers that update in real-time. Share your sprint visualizations easily using email invites or reusable sharing links.
Use Visor’s Agile Release Plan Templates With Data From Your SaaS Apps
Connect Visor to popular SaaS apps or input your project data directly into Visor to create your sprint plans.
Import nested Jira data (e.g., Epics, Stories/Tasks) in minutes. Visor maintains your data’s structure, allowing you to visualize project plans and push out edits.
Visor pays attention to the details, treating your data exactly as Salesforce does. Import and edit your data, including dropdown field selections and contact names.
Connect, visualize, and update Asana projects including sub-tasks and custom fields. Easily make bulk edits and connect with project data from other apps.
Can I use data from other apps in Visor’s agile release plan templates?
Yes, Visor has bi-directional integrations with Jira, Asana, Salesforce, and other apps. This enables you to use your product data from these apps in the agile release plan templates you use in Visor.
The bi-directional integration keeps Visor in sync with your apps to preserve your single version of the truth and prevent manual updates. You can create a range of views to plan your agile releases, track their progress, or other related jobs that you need to do as part of planning and executing your releases.
You can also import multiple projects from apps like Jira to create visualizations that provide a high-level view of progress across multiple projects, programs, product lines, and other groupings that matter to you and your stakeholders.
Can I use live Jira data in Visor’s agile release plan templates?
Yes, you can connect Jira and Visor to visualize your release plans from Jira in Visor’s crystal clear views, which you can easily share with stakeholders that don’t have access to Jira.
Visor’s sophisticated bi-directional integration with Jira maintains the integrity of your data and keeps Visor and Jira in perfect sync to preserve your single source of truth.
Can I visualize my agile release plans in other date groupings too?
Yes, in Visor you can easily create views of your agile releases and release plans using alternate date ranges. This can be useful when you need to take a longer term view, or translate your release plan for stakeholders who want a different perspective to sprints.
You can use the following date ranges for your release plans and other visualizations:
Sprints & Days
Weeks & Days
Months & Days
Months & Weeks
Quarters & Weeks
Quarters & Months
Years & Months
Can I add story points or other resource measurements in Visor’s agile release plan template?
Yes, in Visor you can add story points and other time and effort estimates to the tasks in your agile release plans to help you ensure your releases are feasible, achievable, and properly resourced.
Can I use the agile release plans I create in Visor to monitor sprint progress and performance in real-time?
Yes, Visor can be used to:
Plan sprints, releases, larger projects, and project portfolios or programs
Organize and manage your product backlog
Assign tasks within the sprint to team members
Track sprint progress – using Gantt charts, timelines, Kanban boards, and dashboards
Conduct sprint retrospectives
Analyze past and current sprint performance
Manage capacity across multiple sprints and projects
What formats, or view types can I use in Visor to produce my agile release plans?
In Visor you can use AI Smart Templates to create agile release plans using a range of view types, including:
Gantt Charts
Roadmaps
Timelines and Capacity Charts
Table or Spreadsheet Views
Kanban Views
You can also create your agile release plans, and other views, from scratch using these view types. Alongside views for planning and tracking your team’s work, you can also use dashboard views to easily understand your progress and performance.
Can I add milestones to agile release plan templates created in Visor?
Yes, you can easily add tasks as milestones or set existing tasks to be displayed as milestones in Visor’s Gantt chart view. These milestones can be color coded based on criteria such as priority, status, assignee, or any other relevant criteria.
Adding milestones in Gantt charts helps you to highlight and identify which tasks are critical steps on the journey to the successful completion of your sprint, release, project, or portfolio or projects.
Can I create high-level views that include all of my team or organization’s releases?
Yes, within Visor you can easily create visualizations that include multiple sprints and release plans. You can use a range of formats to view your plans and progress, including Gantt charts and Kanban boards.
These high-level views can include details of individual tasks within release plans, or simply show the overall details. You can expand and collapse sprints within these views to show and hide details of the tasks within a sprint, for example to identify which specific tasks are behind schedule and dragging your sprint velocity down.
Can I use Visor’s agile release planning templates to create varying views of my plans for different stakeholders?
Yes, using Visor you can easily create multiple versions of your release plans that are tailored to different audiences using the same real-time data.
Creating multiple – but synchronized – versions of your release plans enables you to ensure that you have the best view possible for specific teams, stakeholders, or purposes.
Some of the attributes you can modify to create multiple custom views of a sprint plan include:
“Zoom” or Timescale: Quarters and months for your executive board and sprints for your engineering team.
Data Groupings: Group data by the assignee for your team views and by the strategic initiative for your executive board
Levels of Task: Choose to show all task levels for personal views, epics to tasks for team views, and epics only for senior stakeholder views
Creating multiple views of your release plans for different team members, teams, stakeholders, or purposes is quick and easy. All views are synchronized and use the same underlying data source, which means you can have many different views of your plans and progress without having to manually reorganize or update data.
Can I group the visualizations of my agile release plan?
You can group your agile release plans by any dropdown field in your data. The best criteria for you will depend on the scale of your release, whether you are creating plans that include multiple releases or projects, who your audience is, and how they plan to use the sprint plans you share with them.
Some common examples of how Visor users group data in their visualizations include:
Product
Sprint
Initiative
Assignee
Team
Strategic goal
Project Lead
Quarter
Theme
Can I use Visor’s agile release templates for free?
Yes, upon registering you will have a 14-day free trial of Visor’s Team plan, giving you access to all of Visor’s premium visualization types. After this trial period you can choose to select a Team or Starter plan, or continue on the Visor Free plan.
Why is using a Smart Template to create agile release plans better than creating your own plans from scratch or using generic templates?
Smart Templates in Visor are powered by AI, which uses your data, your prompts, and its learnings from thousands of human-created visualizations.
This enables it to produce agile release plans and other visualizations infused with best practices and fully customized to your precise requirements and objectives.
The difference between Smart Templates and regular templates for planning your releases is akin to the difference between wearing a finely tailored, top-of-the-line suit to an ill-fitting, under-sized, off-the-rack shabby suit and trying to make it fit like the professionally tailored version – it’s possible. Still, it will take you lots of time, effort, trial-and-error, and frustration to get there.
Using Smart Templates for agile rel gets you off to the best possible start, and saves you hours per plan created. It’s a genuine game-changer in your ability to plan and visualize your releases.
Can I nest epics, user stories, tasks and subtasks (or other parent and child relationships) using this agile release planning template?
Yes, agile release plans created using the Gantt chart view in Visor have comprehensive task-nesting support. Nesting is made easy in Visor. You can nest records below another record using:
Drag-and-drop
Keyboard shortcuts
The record settings drop-down menu
If you import projects from apps like Jira, Asana, or Salesforce, Visor can maintain your nesting in full, so you don’t need to waste time manually re-nesting your project data.
What other templates are available in Visor?
Visor has a wide range of templates, which you can find in our Templates Library.
Templates in Visor are generated by AI based on your responses to a short series of questions, which enable the AI to understand what you are trying to achieve and produce a ready-configured template to suit your needs. This means that you are not limited to the set of templates we offer in our library, as the AI can meet needs that we haven’t listed or even considered.
How do I access AI-powered Smart Templates in Visor?
When you first log in to Visor, after entering your email address and how you want to use Visor, you will see a screen that asks, “What is this workbook for?” On this screen, there is a “Use Smart Template” button.
You can then pick from a range of popular template categories, or click “Other” to ask the AI to create something different to the available options. You can use the free text box to supply additional information to help the AI create a set of visualizations (or templates) that will best meet your needs.
To access Smart Templates if you already have a Visor account, simply click the New Workbook button within an existing workbook, or Create a new workbook from the workbook list screen. Then when you’re asked “What is this workbook for?” click the “Use Smart Template” button.
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