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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about some of the best practices to follow when planning, implementing, and organizing your automation rules.

We learned that you should plan your automation strategy upfront to align with your business and process objectives to ensure the ultimate success of your automation efforts in Jira.

We also learned that to ensure business continuity and to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, your rules should be properly documented in an external system such as Confluence and made visible to the appropriate team members.

Additionally, you should also understand the importance of maintaining external copies of your rules in a version control system such as Bitbucket or GitHub to ensure that any inadvertent breaking changes to rules can be quickly resolved by importing the last known working version of the rule.

Next, we learned how to approach rule writing with performance in mind by using the appropriate project scopes when defining automation...