Connect Jira and Windmill to automate sprint retros and performance reviews
What is Jira?
Jira is Atlassian’s project and issue tracking software used by thousands of software and product teams worldwide. It provides robust tools for agile planning, sprint management, bug tracking, workflow customization, and cross-team collaboration.
How Windmill Uses Your Jira Integration
Windmill connects to Jira to understand engineering and product work across your organization:
- Work context for 1:1s by tracking completed tickets, in-progress work, and upcoming sprint priorities
- Sprint retrospectives analyzing velocity metrics, blocked issues, cycle time trends, and bottleneck patterns
- Performance review contributions showing tickets completed, technical complexity handled, and cross-team impact
- Blocker identification by monitoring stuck tickets, dependency issues, and workflow bottlenecks
- Collaboration tracking through ticket assignments, comment activity, and handoffs between teams
Windy reads ticket activity, status transitions, sprint assignments, and workflow data to provide rich context about what your team is building and where they’re encountering friction—without requiring manual status updates.
Benefits of the Windmill Jira Integration
End manual status updates. Managers get automatic visibility into what everyone is working on through Jira integration, eliminating repetitive standup updates, status report requests, and “what are you working on?” questions.
Better sprint retros with zero prep work. Windy analyzes your sprint data to highlight what went well, what slowed you down, which blockers were most common, and where process improvements could help—delivered as a ready-to-discuss summary.
Quantify engineering contributions fairly. Performance reviews include concrete metrics like tickets completed, sprint velocity, story point throughput, and cross-functional collaboration—all pulled automatically from Jira rather than relying on memory or self-promotion.
Catch bottlenecks before they derail sprints. When tickets sit too long in certain workflow states, blockers pile up, or dependencies create delays, Windy alerts managers early so they can intervene before sprint commitments are at risk.