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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
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Section 3: Administering Jira Work Management Projects

Chapter 2: Working with Project Templates

Over my years of working as a Jira administrator and Atlassian community leader, I have seen countless requests for and questions about creating projects based on templates. As you can imagine, there are many different mindsets as to what a template looks like for a project. Some want to create a custom template that satisfies the particular need they have, while others just want something quick and easy they can click on that will build the basic project objects needed.

Regardless of the motivation or exact need, the general concept that the user is looking for is a fast way to create a project that already has built-in schemes and objects—such as a board or list/queue—that mostly aligns with their basic requirement.

Historically, all of the Jira family of products—Jira Core (now Jira Work Management, or JWM), Jira Software (JSW), and Jira Service Desk (now Jira Service Management, or JSM)—have provided a...