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JIRA Essentials - Third Edition
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JIRA Essentials - Third Edition

by Patrick Li
April 2015
Beginner
390 pages
8h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 6. Workflows and Business Processes

In the previous chapters, we learned some of the basics of JIRA and how to customize its data capture and presentation with custom fields and screens. In this chapter, we will dive in and take a look at workflows, one of the core and most powerful features in JIRA.

A workflow controls how issues in JIRA move from one status to another, as they are being worked on, often passing from one assignee to another. Unlike many other systems, JIRA allows you to create your own workflows to resemble your processes.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned:

  • What a workflow is and what it consists of
  • About the relationship between workflows and screens
  • What are statuses, transitions, conditions, validators, ...
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