What's new in JWM?
After more than half a decade since the official rollout of the Jira Core branding, Atlassian decided that a makeover was due. In discussions with a selection of Jira users and Atlassian community leaders, Atlassian product managers and designers embarked on meeting the needs and desires of their customers in the Jira Core product makeover.
As already mentioned, while the underpinning of JWM projects has the same basic structure as company-managed software projects, it's the newest features that really set it apart from other Jira project types. Let's take a look at these here:
Figure 1.7 – JWM components
We will briefly look at the Jira board and new items here, but each will be expanded on in more detail in the chapters to come. These are listed as follows:
- Summary: This feature provides information through an activity stream for the project and statistics related to issue status, priorities, and assignees.
- List: This feature provides a list of issues for the project while displaying various fields (columns) for the particular issues. It also provides inline editing for each of the fields.
- Board: This is the standard board feature provided for most Jira projects, though it is limited and not editable for things such as the board filter or card and color displays.
- Calendar: This is an in-project calendar relating to issues within the project. It displays issues based on the due date and/or the start date.
- Timeline: This feature is similar to the Roadmap feature available for JSW projects. It displays issues in a Gantt format.
- Forms: Although listed in the plural form, there is actually just one form per project available at the time of writing this book. The form is simple to produce and uses an intake format, using drag and drop fields.
