Automation & Workflows

Atlassian products can be tailored a lot, but with Forge, you can tweak them even more. Forge works with Jira Software, Jira Service Management, Confluence, and Compass, and this article gives you some ideas on using Forge to customize these products. 

The whitepaper by Isos Technology focuses on ITSM teams new to automation in Jira Service Management, covering topics such as the native automation features, the basic components of a JSM automation rule, the benefits of implementing automation, and how it can simplify complex ITSM processes like employee onboarding.

A research report conducted by Appfire, Isos Technology, and Adience analyzes data and insights from over 200 industry leaders and automation experts. It aims to separate fact from fiction and assess the current state of automation and its impact on businesses. 

Whether you're new to Jira workflows or looking to enhance existing ones, this guide to Jira Workflows offers valuable insights. It provides detailed information on various aspects, such as configuring a workflow, comprehending the relevant terminology, optimizing and customizing workflows, and much more. 

This video offers tips on how to avoid complicated workflows in Jira, which can cause chaos and frustration for scrum teams and users, as well as negatively impact productivity. The speaker explores some of the most convoluted workflows in Jira and provides insights on how to streamline them for maximum efficiency. 

This guide from Appfire provides six automation strategies for streamlining business processes, with examples and use cases for Jira Software, Jira Service Management, and Jira Work Management. The guide covers empowering human decisions with workflow automation, creating smarter business processes, streamlining Jira, improving communication with users, automating mundane tasks, and doing more things in bulk. A bonus checklist for automating Jira is also included.

Jira workflows form the foundation of it all and determine the movement of issues, the responsibilities of various users, and the timing of specific tasks. This app is not just another collection of validators, conditions, and post-functions. According to this review, it can possibly replace two or three apps in your system, and here is why.

This app provides a suite of tools to help you easily manage and automate your Jira workflows. Whether you need to enforce strict approval processes, ensure that issues are transitioned to the correct status based on the status of related issues, or need a way to clone and manage your workflows, this app has you covered. You can read more about it in this review.

Yes, it can be a problem when child issues in Jira are not properly closed, and the parent issue is left in an incorrect status. Automating the process of transitioning the parent issue to its final status based on the status of its child issues is an excellent solution to this problem. 

By using the Jira Misc Workflow Extensions app and its built-in validator, you can enforce your approval process and ensure that issues pass through the approval status before work starts or the issue reaches its final workflow status. 

Whether you're a Jira administrator, project manager, or team member, this book provides a hands-on approach to getting the most out of Jira's automation features. The book covers everything from the basics of automation to advanced techniques to increase your productivity and streamline your workflows.