Migration guide
Migrate from Jira to Planoda
Moving off Jira doesn't have to mean losing a quarter to re-configuration. This guide walks you through exporting your projects, mapping issue types and statuses to Planoda, importing cleanly, and cutting over without dropping a single ticket.
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Should you move?
Jira is genuinely powerful and infinitely configurable, which is exactly the problem: that configurability calcifies into byzantine workflows, slow boards, and an admin burden few teams can sustain. If your team spends more time administering Jira than shipping, the move is worth it — and it's bounded, because the data and the keys come across intact.
Migration in short
- Migrating from Jira to Planoda is a six-step path: export to CSV (all fields), map issue types and statuses, reconcile users, import, verify, and cut over.
- Jira's Epic / Story / Task / Bug hierarchy maps to Planoda issues and sub-issues; workflow statuses map to workflow states, story points to estimates, and sprints to cycles.
- Keep your project keys (ENG-1234) so hard-coded links in pull requests, Slack, and Confluence still resolve after the move.
- Migrate one project at a time, keep Jira read-only during a short parallel run, and use the move to collapse status sprawl rather than reproduce it.
Step by step
How to move from Jira
Export from Jira
From each project's issue search, choose Export → CSV (all fields). Jira splits multi-value fields across repeated columns — keep the full export so comments, labels, and links come along. For very large instances, page the export or use the Jira REST API.
Map issue types, statuses, and priorities
Decide how Jira's Epic / Story / Task / Bug hierarchy maps to Planoda issues and sub-issues, and align your workflow statuses to Planoda workflow states (backlog → started → done). The importer remembers these mappings so re-imports stay consistent.
Reconcile users and assignees
Match Jira account IDs to Planoda members by email. Invite anyone missing first so assignees, reporters, and watchers resolve to real people instead of unmapped placeholders.
Import into Planoda
Drop your cleaned export into the CSV importer, or push records through the public REST API for large or incremental loads. The importer previews the mapping and flags any rows that need attention before anything is written.
Verify the imported data
Spot-check a sample of issues against the source: titles, assignees, states, priorities, comments, and links. Run a count reconciliation so the totals match before you trust the new workspace.
Run both tools in parallel
Keep the old tool read-only for a short overlap window while your team learns the new workflows. Route all new work into Planoda so nothing is created in two places.
Cut over and archive the source
Once the team is comfortable and open work is in sync, freeze the source tool, export a final backup, and make Planoda the system of record. Update bookmarks, integrations, and team docs.
Field mapping
What maps to what
How Jira concepts map onto Planoda.
| Jira | Planoda |
|---|---|
| Epic | Parent issue / Project |
| Story / Task / Bug | Issue |
| Sub-task | Sub-issue |
| Workflow status | Workflow state |
| Story points | Estimate |
| Sprint | Cycle |
| Priority (P1–P5) | Priority (Urgent–No priority) |
| Reporter / Assignee | Creator / Assignee |
| Labels & components | Labels |
Pro tips
Make the move smoother
Export with all fields enabled — re-running an export later to recover a missing column is far more painful than over-exporting once.
Clean up dead statuses and stale issues in Jira before exporting; migration is the perfect moment to drop cruft.
Invite your team to Planoda before importing so assignees resolve to real members on the first pass.
Common pitfalls
What to avoid
The mistakes that actually trip teams up moving off Jira.
Exporting only open issues: the closed ones hold the institutional memory — why a workaround exists, what a spike concluded — and a backlog-only export quietly amnesias your history.
Changing your issue keys on the way in: an ENG-1234 that becomes something else breaks every hard-coded link in pull requests, Slack, and Confluence. Keep the project key so external references still resolve.
Recreating Jira's full status sprawl one-for-one: migration is the moment to collapse a 12-status workflow down to the stages that reflect real work, not to faithfully reproduce the complexity you're leaving.
Big-bang cutover for the whole org on one Monday: import and validate one team first, keep Jira read-only as a safety net, and let that team's success de-risk the next move.
FAQ
Migrating from Jira — FAQ
A note from the founder
“I'm building Planoda in the open and putting my name on it. No borrowed logos, no invented stats — just the work, shipped and auditable. If it doesn't earn your trust, tell me.”
Dmitrii Selikhov is the founder of Planoda and a lead full-stack engineer with 15+ years building developer tools and leading teams as a technical lead, software architect, and CTO.
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