Automating Jira Backlog Creation with Agilien

Agilien is an innovative AI-powered assistant designed to simplify one of the most time‑consuming tasks in project management: building a comprehensive Jira backlog. Instead of manually drafting dozens of epics, stories, and tasks, Agilien allows you to start with just the essentials – your project’s domain, context, and goals. From this minimal input, the tool automatically generates a structured backlog that reflects your project’s objectives and priorities.

In this article, we’ll walk through how Agilien can accelerate your backlog creation process and ensure alignment with your team’s workflow. You’ll learn:

– How to define your project domain, context, and goals so Agilien has the right foundation.

– Steps to generate a full backlog including epics, user stories, and tasks tailored to your project.

– How to synchronize the backlog directly into your Jira space, keeping everything connected and ready for collaboration.

– Best practices for refining and managing the AI‑generated backlog to maximize efficiency and maintain clarity across your team.

By the end, you’ll see how Agilien transforms backlog creation from a manual, repetitive chore into a streamlined, intelligent process – freeing you to focus on strategy, execution, and delivering value.

Prerequisite

We first need to create blank space in Jira.

1. Visit your Jira site.
2. Press + icon next to Spaces on the left menu.
   

   Create Jira space

3. Select Software development on the template list, and choose Scrum template.
   

   Select Scrum template

4. Press Use template button.
5. Choose either Team-managed space or Company-managed space.
   

   Select Space Type

6. Specify the name of the space and press Next to proceed.
   

   Specify project name

7. Invite members to join the space if needed, or press Skip button to skip the step.
8. Optionally you can connect the space with Confluence. Press Continue to proceed.

Now the Jira space is ready and we can we can proceed to generate backlog with AI.

Jira space ready

Generate Project Plan

1. Switch back to Visual Paradigm Online and login to your workspace.
2. Press AI Tools button.
   

   Press AI Tools button after login to VP Online workspace

3. Locate the Agilien: AI-Powered Jira Backlog planner. Press Start Now button to proceed.
   

   Local and start Agilien

4. Enter the Project Domain, as well as System Context & Goals.
   

   Specify Project Definition

5. Specify the Project Start Date as well as Project Duration.
6. Press the Generate Project Plan button to let the AI engine generate the project plan.
   

   Specify project start date, duration to generate project plan

7. The project plan are being generated in Epic, User Story and Sub-task structure. We can click on it to see the details.
   

   Review generated project plan

8. Press the View Gantt Chart button will show the full project plan in a Gantt Chart.
   

   View project plan in Gantt Chart

Generate UML Diagram according to Project Plan

1. Select the project plan item then choose Generate under Diagram Workbench.
   

   Select project plan item to generate diagram

2. Choose the Diagram Type and press Generate Diagram button to let the AI engine generate diagram according to the project plan item.
   

   Select diagram type to generate diagram

3. Review the generated diagram, and press the Attach button to attach it to the project plan item if needed.
   

   Review generated diagram and attach to project plan item

4. Repeat the steps above to generate diagrams for your selected project plan items.

Sync Project Plan to Jira

1. Press the Sync with Jira button at the top right.
   

   Sync. backlog to Jira

2. Press Authenticate with Jira button in the Sync with Jira dialog.
   

   Authenticate with Jira

3. You will be prompted to login to your Jira account in case your browser not yet logged in.
4. Accept the authorization in the popup dialog,
   

   Accept authentication

5. Select the Jira Space created in the previous step and press Start Sync button to proceed.
   

   Select target space

6. The synchronization will automatically starts. Press Finish button to close the dialog when finish.
   

   Close synchronization dialog when finish

7. Switch to Jira and reload the space if needed.
8. All the project plan items are now being generated into your Jira space.
   

   Project backlog being generated to Jira