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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

JWM Summary section

The Summary section is our first unique JWM feature to discuss. However, it can be seen as a compilation of existing functionality placed together to provide helpful insight into your project, and if you have previously used dashboards in Jira, this probably has a similar feel to you. As mentioned previously, we will further explore dashboards in our next chapter, Chapter 6, Forms, Issues, Dashboards, and Reports.

As you might guess, the Summary section is intended to give you a quick overview of what's happening with your project. The 30,000-feet-view cliché is a good one to apply here. The feature is broken into two sections: Activity and Statistics. Each is presented as a link and a tab-like format directly under the summary name.

If you have added a description to your project, it will appear between the Activity and Statistics links and the activity feed. Project lead and project key information is presented to the right, parallel to the project...