This is a Chrome extension that visualizes Jira stories as a graph. It reads the ticket ids currently shown on the page and builds a graph visualizing their relationships (both dependencies and parent-child relationships).

It solves a specific problem I have: working out the dependency chains in a sprint. Jira is good at showing lists of tickets and their current states, but it is terrible at flagging blockers. The more complex the interactions between tickets, the worse Jira is. This extension lets me quickly get an overview of a sprint or an epic in a way that I can’t otherwise do.

Highlights

• I find it genuinely useful and use it at work about once a week

• Depending on how reliable Chrome Web Store’s user stats are, a few other people use this, too

• It wasn’t that hard to throw together

Downsides

• It’s pretty rough. It does the bare minimum to be useful. It’d be great if it could show more data or allow updating tickets, but that’s just not worth my time at the moment given that I can do that using Jira’s UI.

• It could break at any time if Jira changes things and I’ll only find out the next time I use it. Maintenance could be painful.