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Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira

By : Gareth Cantrell
Book Image

Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira

By: Gareth Cantrell

Overview of this book

Atlassian Jira makes it easier to track the progress of your projects, but it can lead to repetitive and time-consuming tasks for teams. No-code automation will enable you to increase productivity by automating these tasks. Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira provides a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and productive in no time. You will start by learning how automation in Jira works, along with discovering best practices for writing automation rules. Then you’ll be introduced to the building blocks of automation, including triggers, conditions, and actions, before moving on to advanced rule-related techniques. After you’ve become familiar with the techniques, you’ll find out how to integrate with external tools, such as GitHub, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, all without writing a single line of code. Toward the end, you’ll also be able to employ advanced rules to create custom notifications and integrate with external systems. By the end of this Jira book, you’ll have gained a thorough understanding of automation rules and learned how to use them to automate everyday tasks in Jira without using any code.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started – the Basics
4
Section 2: Beyond the Basics
8
Section 3: Advanced Use Cases with Automation

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how we can use automation rules to minimize the administrative overhead usually involved in managing and working with Jira Software projects, and indeed these can be applied to most project types within Jira.

In particular, we learned how to keep versions synchronized across projects, which is especially useful when you have a software project spanning multiple Jira projects, whether they be internal team projects or, as in our example, public projects for customers to log and track requests.

Keeping hierarchies of issues in sync is a very common task faced in Jira projects and in this chapter, we learned how to use a looping rule to achieve this using the most common hierarchy encountered in Jira Software projects. Lastly, we learned how to maintain visibility of any scope changes to a sprint and how we can also use automation to adjust the scope of a sprint.

With the exception of the sprint-specific examples we have looked at, the topics...