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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

Thinking about performance

When planning automation rules for any system, you should ensure that they perform efficiently and do not consume more resources than absolutely necessary. This is essential to maintaining a well-behaved and responsive system.

You are introducing automation to enhance productivity and optimize time-consuming processes. The last thing you want is for the automation themselves to have a negative impact on the system performance.

The automation engine in Jira is designed to maximize performance wherever possible; however, there are some considerations you can take into account when authoring your rules to ensure they perform at their best. We'll take a look at some of these considerations in this section.

Using project-specific rules

The scope of a rule plays an important part when it comes to performance. It determines how many executions are initially queued for a given rule.

If you have 50 projects, for example, and a single global rule...