February 11, 2025
The power of Jira comes from it's search capability. The ability to categorise and organise your work using features like labels, priorities, components, versions, etc. Well all of this leads into being able to search for your issues and work items using these fields. Jira's search features form the foundation of reports, dashboards and sprint planning boards. Whichever way you want to display your work you can keep it focused on the issues from the underlying search you define. Understanding Filters in Jira You can undertake a basic search in Jira and just view the results. Then throw those results away when you navigate away from the search view. However, when you search for issues in Jira you can then...
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Want to keep your Jira issues well-organized and easy to find? Priorities and labels are two powerful features that can help you categorize and track your work more effectively. Issue Priorities Priorities help you indicate how urgent or important different issues are in your project. In company-managed projects, you'll typically find priority fields already set up and ready to use. Team-managed projects might need a bit more setup, as priority fields aren't always visible by default. You can easily enable them through your project settings, choosing which issue types should display priority options. Adding The Priority Field To Team Managed Projects If you need to enable the 'Priority' field in a Team managed project then follow these steps: 1. Select...
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February 5, 2025
One of Jira's strongest capabilites is it's ability to allow you to categorise and organise the work you're tracking. Components and versions are another way of grouping, tracking, and managing your work more efficiently. While these features originated in software development, they're valuable tools for any type of project management. Components: Breaking Down Your Project Think of components as sections or categories within a product or service you're developing. Components allow you to break up a bigger piece of 'something' and allocate your Jira issues to those components. A simple example here might be that your project is to develop a car. You have lots of issues/work items you need to track in order to complete that development. Some issues...
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February 4, 2025
“Workflows” are a major part of Jira. Workflows help you track the statu, and oversee the progress, of work within your Projects. This lesson takes you through what workflows are and what they are made up of. What follows takes you through the set up of a workflow and how to use them. This will help you with tracking work progress and ensure that you have clear visibility of what's in progress, what's completed and what's still to be done. What is a Jira Workflow? At its heart, a workflow in Jira is the path, through a defined set of “Status” values, that your work takes from start to finish. Your workflows should model your real life work process. So...
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February 3, 2025
In this post I'm going to break down one of the fundamental concepts in Jira: projects. You're going to find out why we need projects and see how issues relate to those projects. What is a Jira Project? Think of a Jira project as a container – a bit like a digital filing cabinet for your work items. Every piece of work you track in Jira needs to live somewhere, and that somewhere is a project. There's two key points to understand about how issues relate to projects: Each project can hold one or more “issues” (or records that track units of work if you prefer that terminology) Every issue belongs to one project It's important to understand that an...
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