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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 are JWM templates?

Project templates provide the user with a quick start for a project by automatically creating several technical components necessary to administer and use the project. We have already described in Chapter 1, Why Choose Jira Work Management?, how the process of creating a new project has the user pass through a phase of selecting a template to use. This is a necessary step as it establishes the workflow for cards on the project as well as columns that will appear on the board.

The steps in the workflow directly correlate to statuses for the project. Some common steps/statuses are TO DO, IN PROGRESS, DONE, and so on. Column names on the board will be the same as the status names. See the section entitled How to read a workflow later in this chapter for more on relationships between statuses.

Along with the board and workflow, other schemes will be automatically attached to the project for screens, permissions, and notifications. We will discuss how to administer...