Top-Level Planning Template

Plans is a powerful tool, but that complexity can make it incredibly difficult for new customers to get started with a plan. To help them get started, I created a template that served as a basic plan builder and to showcase several of the high-value features of Plans. Through this, we hoped to see:

  • more users creating a plan (customer growth) and 

  • users accessing their plans more often (customer retention)

For this project, I worked with a Product Designer of the same seniority as myself, the Product Manager, and a development team of 12 people.

Design requirements:

To set up their plan, users needed to accomplish the following actions:

  1. Create a project to track large work items (called Initiatives) and create a plan

  2. Create a new issue at the Initiative level

  3. Add other projects (called Issue sources) to their plan

  4. Reparent an existing Epic from one of their Initiatives

  5. Save their changes

Results

The end-to-end journey spanned seven screens, and included at least six separate actions. The results of this work was undeniably successful:

  • 35% of all users completed the tutorial in an average of 3 min 18 seconds (from selecting a template to having a ‘complete’ plan)
  • 71.4% of those who completed it them set their plan up ‘correctly’ (reparented an Epic from an existing project into a newly-created Initiative)

After the initial success, we used this template as an upsell moment to users on Standard/Free Editions of Jira Software. By showing this to customers who were on versions of Jira Software that didn’t have access to Plans:

  • 13% of users started a two-week free trial; of them:
  • conversion rates for:
    • .123% of Standard edition customers upgraded to Premium
    • 3.8% of Free edition customers upgraded (on top of our other conversion efforts)