Explore core features of Jira projects
5 min
Beginner
By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to:
- Use views to track and visualize your work
- Inform your team with notifications
- Analyze your work with reports
- Customize your project with workflows
- Streamline your processes with automation and integrations
Track your work however you want
Explore different views of your team’s work
Projects are essentially collections of work. Jira provides several ways to view, filter, and organize your project’s work.
👇 Click the tabs below to explore some of the available views.
Boards are the core of a software project. Boards get their structure from workflows. Workflows represent how your team works using statuses, like To Do and In Progress. Boards show where work is in a workflow.
👇 This is a board in a Jira project.
Use notifications to stay on top of activity
Notifications send for events, like a change in the status of a work item. Notifications enable teams to keep up to date with activity in their project. In Jira, notifications trigger for specific events, and you can choose who receives notifications for each event.
👉 For example: Kashmira, a team-managed project admin, wants to notify only project admins when a user deletes a work item. The assignee of the work item should receive a notification when someone comments on the work item.
Use reports to analyze your team’s work
Reports enable admins and team members to analyze and reflect on their work. There are many default reports provided by Jira. You’ll see different reports based on the project template you choose.
👉 For example: The Sprint Report shows how your team completed the work in a sprint and indicates any work that the team added to or removed from their sprint. You can look at the sprint report for any sprint in the project’s history.
👇 Here’s an example of a report showing the status of a project’s work over time.
Create workflows that represent how you work
Your team will use workflows to track the lifecycle of a work item. Workflows link together the statuses that work items move through with transitions that control and describe how work items move through those statuses. These statuses are represented on your board as columns and on work items as a field.
👉 For example: Maya's team uses a workflow that has four statuses: To Do, In Progress, In Review, and Done.
Automate your work tracking
Streamline your work with automation rules
Automation enables project admins to easily write rules that automatically complete actions if certain conditions are met.
👉 For example: Marc creates an automation rule that automatically assigns any new bugs to his team’s lead engineer.
👉 Another example: Lola creates an automation rule that automatically copies an epic’s priority field to all work items created in that epic.
Integrate your project with other tools
Jira supports many integrations with tools that teams use to complete work, like messaging services, repositories, design software, databases, and all Atlassian products.
👉 For example: Hamda, a social media marketer, integrates her team's Jira project with Canva, Figma, Slack, and Confluence. They can link to Figma and Canva files directly from a work item, see previews of linked Confluence pages, and create work items from Slack messages.
👉 Another example: Simu is a product manager on a software development team. He integrates his team's Jira project with Microsoft Teams, their Bitbucket repository, and Loom. They can get notifications about Jira work in Teams, automatically transition work items based on Bitbucket pull requests and reviews, and share Looms of bugs they're seeing while testing their products.
For most integrations, you need to work with a Jira admin to enable them on your site. Then, you can configure them within your own project.
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