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Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira

By : Gareth Cantrell
Book Image

Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira

By: Gareth Cantrell

Overview of this book

Atlassian Jira makes it easier to track the progress of your projects, but it can lead to repetitive and time-consuming tasks for teams. No-code automation will enable you to increase productivity by automating these tasks. Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira provides a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and productive in no time. You will start by learning how automation in Jira works, along with discovering best practices for writing automation rules. Then you’ll be introduced to the building blocks of automation, including triggers, conditions, and actions, before moving on to advanced rule-related techniques. After you’ve become familiar with the techniques, you’ll find out how to integrate with external tools, such as GitHub, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, all without writing a single line of code. Toward the end, you’ll also be able to employ advanced rules to create custom notifications and integrate with external systems. By the end of this Jira book, you’ll have gained a thorough understanding of automation rules and learned how to use them to automate everyday tasks in Jira without using any code.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started – the Basics
4
Section 2: Beyond the Basics
8
Section 3: Advanced Use Cases with Automation

Chapter 9: Best Practices

The ability to automate tasks and processes in Jira opens up a whole new world of possibilities for streamlining your projects and improving productivity.

This, in turn, brings about its own complexities, and if approached in a haphazard manner, you could very well end up with a bunch of rules that instead of increasing productivity end up causing more pain than before you started.

Having a set of guidelines to help you get the most out of your automation journey is what this chapter is all about.

We will learn where to begin by planning your rules, before diving into implementing them and how to approach writing your rules to ensure you maximize performance. Finally, we will be looking at some best practices to organize your rules to make it easier to manage and maintain them.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Planning your rules
  • Thinking about performance
  • Organizing your rules