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Jira Work Management for Business Teams

By : John Funk
Book Image

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

Deciding which template to use

With the outstanding list of built-in templates to use for JWM projects, which one should you use? Of course, the first clue is to ask yourself: What am I trying to accomplish? And the next logical step is to take a look at the descriptions of each project template found in the previous pages of this chapter or peruse the online descriptions within the tool itself.

Pay close attention to the issue types used by the templates along with the actual workflow implemented behind the scenes for the project. As we mentioned in the Issue types, workflow, and board relationships section, only a single workflow will be available for all issue types in the project. Remember that the statuses in the workflow will relate to the columns that are displayed on the board.

Do not get too hung up on the order of the statuses in the workflow as you will be able to rearrange the columns of the board after everything has been created. We will discuss that more in Chapter...