Not sure where to start? These five Guru Views cover the most common planning and prioritization use cases - ready to add to your workspace and use straight away.
In this article:
Now / Next / Later
A three-column roadmap that organizes work into time horizons - what is being worked on now, what is planned next, and what is coming later - without committing to specific dates. It keeps stakeholder conversations focused on direction rather than delivery schedule.
Best practices:
Keep the Now column to what the team is actively building - over-filling it undermines credibility with stakeholders
Keep Next to a realistic planning horizon - if everything is Next, stakeholders stop trusting the signal
RICE Prioritization
A scoring view that ranks backlog items by Reach, Impact, Confidence, and Effort. It replaces gut-feel prioritization with a shared scoring language - and regularly surfaces surprises: high-effort items that feel important often score lower than expected, and low-profile items often score higher.
Best practices:
Score items before your backlog review, not during it - the meeting is for interpreting scores, not entering them
Define Reach and Impact scales once at the workspace level and hold to them; inconsistent definitions produce meaningless scores
Craft.io also offers an Abstract RICE Guru View for teams who prefer to work with pre-defined values and icons rather than raw numbers. Both views use the same underlying formula - Abstract RICE just makes scoring faster and more consistent for teams who find numeric input a barrier.
Objectives Overview
A Kanban-style view that displays Epics grouped by the Objectives they are linked to. It answers the question executives ask most - "Are we working on the right things?" - and immediately surfaces orphaned Epics that have no strategic home.
Best practices:
Connect Epics to Objectives before activating - Epics (or any other work item) without a linked Objective will not appear.
Use this as your VP or CPO-level presentation view, not a daily working surface
Objectives are a multi-select value, therefore a work item can be linked to more than one Objective. Work items therefore may appear in multiple columns - this is expected behavior, not a duplicate.
SAFe® WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First)
A prioritization view that sequences items by dividing Cost of Delay by job duration - surfacing work that delivers the most value in the shortest time. Built for teams running SAFe® and PI Planning, but the underlying logic applies to any team that wants to factor the cost of waiting into sequencing decisions.
Best practices:
Score at the Epic level first, then drill into Features within each prioritized Epic - do not score features in isolation before the Epic sequence is set
Use WSJF output as an input to PI Planning, not a substitute for it; the scores inform the conversation, they do not run it
Craft.io also offers Classic WSJF - a simplified version for teams not running full SAFe®. If your team is not operating in a SAFe® environment, Classic WSJF is usually the right starting point.
Sprint Dev Status (Jira or ADO)
A real-time view of Jira or ADO development status for every item in a current sprint, pulled directly from your integration. It eliminates the manual status update loop between product and engineering - no manual updates, no out-of-sync data.
Best practices:
Filter to the current sprint only - a multi-sprint view dilutes the signal
Review it 24-48 hours before sprint close to catch at-risk items before they slip, not the morning of
This view requires an active Jira or ADO integration, which can be set up by Workspace admins.
What comes next?
Start with one view - the one that maps to your most pressing planning problem right now. For most teams, that is either Now / Next / Later (stakeholder communication) or RICE Prioritization (backlog clarity).
Promote any view your team uses more than once to a Workspace View - consistency is where the value compounds
Activate the Objectives Overview once your OKRs are linked to Epics
Set up a Jira or ADO integration to enable the Sprint Dev Status before your next sprint review
Nothing you configure here is permanent. Every view can be edited, renamed, or removed at any time (Settings > Custom Fields).
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