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Jira Work Management for Business Teams

By : John Funk
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Jira Work Management for Business Teams

By: John Funk

Overview of this book

Jira Work Management (JWM) is the newest project management tool from Atlassian, replacing Atlassian's previous product, Jira Core Cloud. While Jira Software focuses on development groups, JWM is specifically targeted toward business teams in your organization, such as human resources, accounting, legal, and marketing, enabling these functional groups to manage and enhance their work, as well as stay connected with their company's developers and other technical groups. This book helps you to explore Jira project templates and work creation and guides you in modifying a board, workflow, and associated schemes. Jira Work Management for Business Teams takes a hands-on approach to JWM implementation and associated processes that will help you get up and running with Jira and make you productive in no time. As you explore the toolset, you'll find out how to create reports, forms, and dashboards. The book also shows you how to manage screens, field layouts, and administer your JWM projects effectively. Finally, you'll get to grips with the basics of creating automation rules and the most popular use cases. By the end of this Jira book, you'll be able to build and manage your own Jira Work Management projects and make basic project-related adjustments to achieve optimal productivity.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Jira Work Management Basics
5
Section 2: Enhancing Your JWM Project
10
Section 3: Administering Jira Work Management Projects

What is automation?

Automation is a tool provided with all Jira Cloud instances as part of any type of subscription you have. It can extend your JWM work by simplifying the manual processes that you need to perform.

Automation works by creating point and click rules which contain triggers, conditions and actions. These rules can be very powerful in the amount of time it saves you by reducing extra manual edits and calculations.

However, we also need to mention a few limitations related to the rules. There are unlimited rule executions for single project rules – meaning the rule runs against a single project. However, there are limits or levels of executions for global or multi-project rules available in relation to your subscription type, which we will discuss later in the chapter.

Automation allows project administrators and Jira administrators to save time by setting up rules that fire based on various system events. Some examples of system events include the following...