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Jira 8 Essentials

You're reading from   Jira 8 Essentials Effective issue management and project tracking with the latest Jira features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789802818
Length 420 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Patrick Li Patrick Li
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Jira 8
2. Getting Started with Jira FREE CHAPTER 3. Using Jira for Business Projects 4. Using Jira for Agile Projects 5. Section 2: Jira 8 in Action
6. Issue Management 7. Field Management 8. Screen Management 9. Workflow and Business Process 10. Emails and Notifications 11. Section 3: Advanced Jira 8
12. Securing Jira 13. Searching, Reporting, and Analysis 14. Jira Service Desk 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Subtasks

Jira allows only one person (assignee) to work on one issue at a time. This design ensures that an issue is a single unit of work that can be tracked against one person. However, in the real world, we often find ourselves in situations where we need to have multiple people working on the same issue. This may be caused by a poor breakdown of tasks or simply because of the nature of the task at hand. Whatever the reason, Jira provides a mechanism to address this problem through subtasks.

Subtasks are similar to issues in many ways, and as a matter of fact, they are a special kind of issue. They must have a parent issue, and their issue types are flagged as subtask issue types. You can say that all subtasks are issues, but not all issues are subtasks.

For every issue, you can have one or more subtasks that can be assigned and tracked separately from each other. Subtasks...

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