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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

Chapter 4: Modifying the Board, Workflow, and Associated Schemes

You should have created your first project by now, and maybe even a few new issues for your work. You also have a good idea of how to find your way around the project settings world to do some simple administration, if nothing more than looking at what is initially set up.

Now it is time to dig deeper into how to make changes to the original objects created with the project template. Very few times will you just accept what gets created out of the box. Most likely, there will be several changes you want to make so that your project reflects more closely how you work in your organization or on your team.

For example, modifying transitions in the workflow can be done to simplify the options available to users, so they only see relevant statuses when moving from column to column. Or maybe you want to only allow a change in statuses when a field is not empty (meaning the field becomes required at some point in the...