Chapter 10: Using Project Automation
To draw on a food analogy, so far you have had your appetizer, salad, and main course over the first nine chapters of this book. And now, I consider project automation to be our dessert!
Automation can bring incredible power to your Jira Work Management (JWM) project and the work associated with it.
Maybe you want to automate routine and/or repetitive tasks. Maybe you want to auto-assign work to dedicated users, or even create a round-robin schedule for your team assignments. Maybe you want the system to keep subtasks synchronized with their parent. Or maybe you even want to use a formula to calculate a new value based on the sum of multiple fields.
Regardless of what excites you most about automation, you can eat your fill of a variety of automated goodness. All with the simplicity of a tool that is mostly point-and-click, with no coding needed!
In this chapter, you will learn about the concept of automation, including what it is and...