User story mapping in Avion with Jira poster

Jira is such a powerful backlog management tool, it's no wonder so many companies use it to help them manage their software development sprints. However — it sorely misses a user story map view — enter Avion.

Three ways to sync your epics

Avion provides you with multiple options for how you would like to sync the structure of your user story map. As well as being able to use Jira’s custom fields to display additional data from Avion, you can sync Jira epics in three different ways:

Don't want to sync epics?

You can also integrate with Jira without syncing the structure and hierarchy of your story map — keeping your Avion stories and Jira issues in sync — without touching your epics. This lightweight approach allows your dev team to organise their backlog however they want.

How does it work?

Setup your Jira integration in Avion

Our in-depth, but straightforward setup process will guide you through all the different syncing possibilities, so you can dial it in just how your team likes it.

Avion's state mapping screen

Import existing data from Jira

Import all your current project’s user stories into Avion, so you can start linking them up with your user journeys and steps. These stories will be immediately two-way synced.

Avion's integration import feature

Push new stories and releases

Define and prioritise new releases within Avion and then push them to Jira, where your dev team can start picking up the work.

Pushing an Avion release to Jira

Track and monitor in either tool

Any card that is synced will remain up-to-date in either tool automatically, so you can monitor your dev team’s Jira updates right from your Avion user story map.

Pushing an Avion user story to Jira

Evolve your processes

Use our Jira configuration options to tweak and update how Jira statuses are mapped to your Avion workflow.

Avion's integration configuration panel for Jira

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