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Ceptah Bridge Plugin
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JIRA and MS Project synchronization

Connect MS Project with Atlassian JIRA at almost no additional effort. Make the tasks of your projects available to JIRA users for browsing, updating and progress reporting and transfer changes back from JIRA to the original MS Project documents.

Key features

Task publication The Bridge makes the tasks of a project available to JIRA users by creating issues for the activities. The published project rows hold a reference to the associated issue for subsequent synchronization.
Synchronization Changes in both project tasks and JIRA issues can be synchronized in both directions at any time.
Supported JIRA fields
  • Summary
  • Description
  • Project key
  • Issue type
  • Priority
  • Due date
  • Assignee
  • Status
  • Resolution
  • Time spent
  • Estimates
  • Worklog
  • Security level
  • Components
  • Versions
  • Environment
  • Reporter, Votes
  • Any custom fields
Preview of changes Preview and confirm the changes the Bridge is about to make in your tasks and issues before applying them. If the connector is not going to act the way you would expect it to, the settings can be adjusted to ensure the desirable behaviour.
Customization Define the mappings between MS Project and JIRA fields that suit best your management process. The settings apply to publication (issue creation), synchronisation and import.
Import from JIRA Existing issues, optionally including subtasks, can be imported from JIRA into an MS Project document.
Resolved issues Review resolved issues submitted to you by your resources and close or reopen them.
Command-line mode The import and synchronization can be launched using a command line tool included in the software package.
Software requirements Microsoft Office Project: 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2010.
JIRA: 3.13 and higher.

Screenshots
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Synchronization mappings dialog
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Synchronization window
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Resolved issues window

When it comes to managing a project, Microsoft Office Project is a de facto standard tool for developing and maintaining a project plan, managing costs, working with dependencies and levelling resources, while Atlassian JIRA is a powerful issue tracking system boosting your project teamwork by ensuring effective team management and progress tracking. Using the Ceptah Bridge plugin, you can make the two systems work together at almost no additional effort.

You create and maintain the project plan in MS Project, while the team members you manage use JIRA to browse their assignments and report the progress of the tasks. Our connector will take care of transferring the data between the systems, including reflecting the progress information back to your Microsoft Office Project document.

After being installed, the Bridge extends the MS Project main menu with its own items to expose the synchronization features. Technically, the connector is a Microsoft Project add-in and has to be installed on each MS Project computer where synchronization with JIRA is needed.

Check out the slide shows of the Ceptah Bridge plugin in use.

Download

Give it a try by downloading and installing a demo version from the download page. The trial version has all features of the full package with the only exception that it processes a limited number of tasks in a project.

More info

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