This documentation contains information about how work is performed within our(teamapts) Jira environment. It involves documenting workflows, issue types, statuses, transitions, screens, fields, and other configurations to ensure clarity, consistency, and efficiency in using Jira.
Features
- Create project: The "Create Project" feature in Jira allows you to set up a new workspace for managing your work.
Steps in creating a project - Click on the create project button as shown in the screenshot below
- Choose your type of project e.g software development
- Select a pre-configured template e.g scrum or kanban
- Give your project a clear and descriptive name
- Create Project
- Create Epic: An Epic is a large body of work which contains smaller tasks or user stories.
Steps in creating an epic - Go to the project where you want to create the Epic.
- Access the create issue button
- From the dropdown menu, choose the "Epic" issue type.
- Fill in the necessary information, such as the Epic's summary, description, assignee, components, initiative or any other relevant fields
- Once you've entered the required details, save the Epic.
NOTE: It is very important and compulsory that description is added to any epic created, so anyone reading the description can understand why the epic was created.
- Create Task/User story/Bug: These are different types of issues created to track various work items.
Steps in creating a task - Navigate to the desired epic
- Click on the "Create" button.
- Select "Task" “Story“ “Bug“ as the issue type.
- Fill in the required fields: summary, description, assignee, sprint, components, or any other relevant fields
- Click "Create".
NOTE: It is very important and compulsory that description and acceptance criteria is added to any task created, so anyone reading the description can understand why the task was created.(see screenshot below)
- Task Update: When a task is being worked on, it is important that the task is updated by moving it to “in progress”. To foster effective communication, comments should be added to tasks as shown in the screenshot below whenever there is a blocker or an update is to be given on the task.
- Timeline Update: Timeline update provides a visual representation of an epic/task progress over time.
NOTE: It is very important and compulsory that timelines are added to any task created, so there can be clarity on when a task or epic will be completed.(see screenshot below)
