Shape Up and Jira

A Shape Up board for Jira without turning scopes into tickets

Jira can manage detailed work, workflows, and reporting. A Shape Up hill chart answers a different question: which scopes are still unknown, and which have a path the team understands?

Jira tracks delivery detail

Jira is well suited to tickets, workflow states, assignments, and operational reporting. That detail is useful for execution, but an issue’s status is not necessarily a statement of how well the team understands the solution.

A hill groups work into meaningful scopes

Hillchart lets a team represent the larger parts of shaped work rather than mirror every Jira issue. Moving a scope reflects a change in understanding, not a count of completed tickets.

Use the views together

Keep Jira as the detailed system of record and use Hillchart in project reviews, snapshots, or stakeholder updates. The two views can complement each other without forcing duplicate task maintenance.

  • Jira: tickets and delivery workflow
  • Hillchart: uncertainty across shaped scopes
  • Together: detailed execution and clear project understanding