What are JWM templates?
Project templates provide the user with a quick start for a project by automatically creating several technical components necessary to administer and use the project. We have already described in Chapter 1, Why Choose Jira Work Management?, how the process of creating a new project has the user pass through a phase of selecting a template to use. This is a necessary step as it establishes the workflow for cards on the project as well as columns that will appear on the board.
The steps in the workflow directly correlate to statuses for the project. Some common steps/statuses are TO DO, IN PROGRESS, DONE, and so on. Column names on the board will be the same as the status names. See the section entitled How to read a workflow later in this chapter for more on relationships between statuses.
Along with the board and workflow, other schemes will be automatically attached to the project for screens, permissions, and notifications. We will discuss how to administer...
