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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

Using the board

When managing software development or other technical projects, the Kanban board or Sprint board is the star of the show. Kanban simply wouldn't be Kanban without a board – either physical or digital/virtual. And Sprints are so much easier to manage when viewing the work on a board.

Often, this is also the case with business projects. Visually seeing the work you need to do or have completed and viewing the progress you have made is debatably best using a board. Now that JWM projects have implemented inline editable lists, the board has less significance, although it will still be the major interaction point for most users.

Lists will be covered in detail in Chapter 5, JWM Toolset: Summary, List, Timeline, and the Calendar, but for now, let's take a close look at the board.

Inherently, business projects will not use the Scrum methodology and therefore will not have Sprint boards available. And although the board that is automatically created...