Questions tagged [jira]
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Switch to Jira Simplified Workflow from a second Kanban board within the same project
I have created a second Kanban board based on an existing project in Jira.
The first board uses the typical Jira workflow and has a column for each issue type.
The second board was created with three ...
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Is there a way to connect Provar to JIRA?
I would like to be able to connect Provar to JIRA so that I can see the test coverage per user story in JIRA.
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How do you represent issues without Epics in Jira Roadmap (Jira Classic & Next Gen)
Ability to represent issues without Epics (be that a task type or bug type) in Jira Roadmaps.
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New filter in JIRA
How can I add a new filter that allows me to select tasks without a filled "estimate" field. I read about the ability to save search results as a new filter - but that doesn't work. I need to be able ...
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In practice, how many modules should I put in one jira project?
Suppose my team is going to develop a system similar to Facebook. Should I put all modules in one jira project to track the development? That seems too much. In practice, how many modules should I put ...
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Is it possible to create sub-tasks automatically in Jira?
My team is going to develop 3 jira stories sign up, login and password recovery. Each of them needs PO, UI, Front-End and Back-End do their work respectively.
To track their work, I need to create 3 ...
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How do I distinguish/identify different jobs between occupations in Jira
Suppose my team is going to develop a system, which includes sign up, login, password recovery and lots of other modules.
There are an UI designer, a PO, a front-end engineer and a back-end engineer ...
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think of a Jira project as a table in a database [closed]
A tutorial says
You can think of the Jira project as a
table in a database.
If I think of a Jira project as a table in a database, what should I think of as the whole database?
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indicate issuse_A depends on issuse_B by in jira
How do I convey the idea that issuse_B depends on issuse_A? For example, software engineers have to wait for the product manager(s) complete the definition if a module.
Is it common to use "is ...
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orders in Kanban board
There are 3 issues in Kanban.
As per the screenshot, my team should finish issues in the order 1-3-2, right? 1st issue should be delivered before starting 2nd issue, right?
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should I consider 2 different major versions of an application as 2 different projects or just one project [duplicate]
Assume my team is developing an App like Skype. We just delivered 5.0.0 and are planning to develop version 6.
Should I create a new "Project" in Jira, to manage the development of version 6?
One of ...
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Should I put UI, product definition and development in one Jira project?
Assume I am planning to develop an App like Skype, Product manager needs to define a group of functionalities, UI/UX needs to design the appearance, iOS engineer needs to deliver an iOS app, backend ...
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navigate panel in Jira software
A tutorial shows Jira like this
My Jira shows like this
I am running JIRA Agile v8.8.1 on my own device
How do I navigate to the panel pointed out by red arrow?
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should I consider 2 different patch versions of some software as 2 different projects or just one project
In Software Project Management, Software versioning uses a convention like this
For example, skype 6.26.2 and skype 6.26.1 are different versions of the same App.
“Project” is the highest level ...
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Approach for handling internal scheduling and global ticketing system in one JIRA instance
We have a following setup in my organization:
Company-wide JIRA instance (over 3000 users I think)
Organization JIRA instance (less than 200 hundred) with Tempo planner
The reason we have an ...
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How do I overcome a bottleneck in a team's process, when what people are telling me doesn't match what I see
I started a new job a few months ago as a scrum master.
The team was and still is having problems completing their tasks during the sprint.
Initially the problems seemed to be tasks that were too ...
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Does Jira have the ability to create product documentation from tickets
I have been in meetings with product managers discussing how to document our app when something dawned on me.
If we spend all of this time creating the Jira infrastructure to manage Epics/User-...
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Agile team (scrum) with a doubled backlog
I'll give the context first: 8 DEV + 2 QA team working Agile, more specifically Scrum.
We use Jira for the project backlog and AzureDevops for code.
Every story is tracked in Jira and we also create ...
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How do you best organize iOS and Android development of the same board in Jira?
I have a team of 8 developers who are working across different technologies (backend, iOS, android and web). We are using Scrum.
At the beginning I was using a board for each technology but it was so ...
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Disable Autosaved Labels in Jira
I would like to understand if Autosave labels can be disabled in Jira. My client does not want autosaved labels to appear as suggestions in Labels field when raising a Jira support ticket (Ex: as a ...
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Single Jira project for multiple Scrum teams
We're going to develop a Java web application (frontend + backend's microservices) using several Scrum development teams. One team is resposible for the core product modules (microservices). Some ...
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How to deal with recurring tasks in a sprint?
We are working on a software product which by now requires about 40% of our capacity maintenance work like e.g. manually checking data per day. What would be the recommended way on dealing with those ...
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Dynamically updating filters in a dashboard
The team I'm on has a couple dashboards for our projects tracking tickets that were completed. Our process is to create a filter for that weeks completed issues, and then create a new dashboard linked ...
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Jira Ticket best practices
I've been with two very different companies that both use JIRA Tickets to track work done. The first was corporate company with some high standards when it comes to defining Tickets in Jira, the ...
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Requirements traceability in agile?
If an organization is regulated, it has pass the audit and show that it has implemented a "requirements traceability". Which means it has documented the path from specific requirement to a code change ...
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Does Jira Kanban offer measurement reports?
What are the gadgets, reports or metrics available in Jira Kanban that are useful for management reporting and to measure team performance?
Is there a way to get throughput, cycletime and lead time ...
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User Stories in backend/frontend teams working for clients
We are a small software agency (15 people), currently using Jira, and implementing some Scrum practices more rigorously.
But we're struggling with understanding how User Stories would help some ...
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Interactions between agile teams in a software company
We try to use Kanban in our development project. Our team is one of many other agile development teams in our company. The other teams may use either Scrum or Kanban or something else (sometimes ...
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Burn Down Chart : What is the definition of work done in Scrum
I am running a Scrum Project. I am using JIRA as well as TFS as my Agile Work tracking tools.
In JIRA I created an 8-point story. The story was completed on the 8th day in a 10 workday Sprint. Sub-...
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How can I implement a Pull System in Jira's Kanban?
As far as I understand, in Kanban, each column is divided into two sub-columns: "In Progress" and "Done". A performer from the next column pulls the items from the previous column's "Done" sub-column. ...
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In Kanban, do we ever use sub-tasks for decomposition of a large task?
Let's suppose, there is a task to add a new search function to a website. Let's also suppose this is a large task.
Do we use sub-task (e.g. Jira sub-tasks) for decomposition of a large task?
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In Jira Kanban, do we use sub-tasks?
I'm wondering if we should use sub-tasks in Kanban board? Or any sub-task should be repsresented with a column in the Kanban board?
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Separating Jira Kanban board issues into categories?
So im going to be using Jira for a client specifically for the Kanban board. I want to keep it as simple as possible (Simple Card Detail/Small amount of swimlanes/etc...)
My one question is: Outside ...
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In Jira, what should I do if changed requirements increase a task's estimation singnificantly?
Let's suppose a Scrum team estimated a Story and added it to a Sprint backlog. And during the work on that task a customer adds or changes some requirements and this increases the amount of work ...
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How do I import Test case and it's steps from Excel/CSV to Zephyr on JIRA cloud?
I am trying to import test case and it's steps from CSV file to JIRA cloud. I have installed Zephyr plugin on JIRA and am able to create test case and steps manually.
But I have thousands of test ...
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Restrict group or user access per components
I would like to restrict the visibility of issues by users or groups on the criteria that the issues belong or not to a component. Is it possible or not ? If not I guess that it is a bad design to ...
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In Jira, should I do a new project or an Epic?
We are currently redeveloping a monolith application into a micro-services architecture.
So we will split one application into 20+ modules. Today we use a project to track all changes to the monolith....
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In Jira, is there an issue type for creating an already completed task?
In Jira, I would like my employees to create an issue that already is complete and closed. The purpose of creating the issue is purely for auditing purposes as an official record that the incident ...
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Workflows of rejecting tickets due to incomplete/wrong implementation
I work as a product manager in a start-up. We try to be lean but we have Jira as a tracker (I said we 'try'). I worked in around 10 different teams so far and the development workflow was usually ...
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Extended Jira mail handler with forwarding and Issue creation
I'm stuck with a problem. I need a Jira Mail Handler which is able to handle the following case:
A user sends a bug report to a special e-mail adress, let's say bugs@company.com. The mail then get's ...
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Epics disappear from Scrum board
I have started a project, which should be done with Scrum. So, I am adding Epics to Backlog in Jira, and they disappear. How can I show Epics in Backlog? Thanks.
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Best Way to Manage Different Types of Work in one Board?
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My team consists of software developers and UX designers. Their workflow is different--UX has different steps than a pure development task has. What's the best way to manage this on one Kanban ...
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Original Estimate gone from Jira's new issue view
I've loaded up Jira today and noticed that the original estimate field, in the new issue view when viewing a task, no longer shows.
Time tracking is still there and work can be logged but the ...
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Release Planning/Versioning in Azure Boards
In other tools there are release planning/versioning modules and I was wondering if there is something similar in Azure Boards? I have looked into a few extensions, but do not see anything.
The goal ...
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How to ask my Product owner to put all information on the JIRA itself instead of a document pointed inside the JIRA?
I am a developer. A backlog jira is assigned to me for grooming. The jira contains a short description of the requirement and also the acceptance criteria. Also a problematic sentence as below, which ...
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Adding n-number of due date fields and descriptions to Epics and Stories
In an existing project, the team is attaching tasks directly to Epics. I would like to introduce stories to the workflow and n-number of key dates to either the Epics or features.
For this, I would ...
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Auto watching @mentions in Jira?
From what I have read, there is no out-of-the-box solution to auto-create watches from @mentions in Jira.
Since there @mention triggers an email event, is there a way to add additional triggers in ...
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Best type of field in Jira for handling job codes?
We essentially have a centralized project, but bits and pieces of that project are built with funding from many different budgets. Separate billing codes are created for each budget.
I want to place ...
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How to create JIRA Kanban based on ticket/card reporter?
I want to create another Kanban board in my project where the columns are people names (we have 4 analysts in the team) and in the column shows all the cards created (reported) by each analyst, so we ...
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Only stories are showing in board in JIRA. I want all Epics, Stories, Tasks, Sub-taks to see in board
In JIRA Board, only "stories" are showing
Filter for JIRA from (vertical3 dot > Board setting > General > Filter > Edit Filter Query)
project = NAP ORDER BY Rank ASC
Here I can see all the EPICS, ...
