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Questions tagged [jira]

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What's difference between "depends on" and "is blocked by" relations between issues in Jira next-gen board?

In Jira, (probably) in next-gen board, when specifying relationship between two issues, I have the following choices: -- i.e. specifically "[A] depends on [B]" and "[A] is blocked by [B]". What is the difference? Does "is blocked by" imply some…
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How do companies measure task progress in project management tools (Jira) when fresher team members spent most of the time in learning?

I am trying to figure out how project management can help my team complete tasks faster, and I started to motivate one of our Junior developers to start using Jira recently. But he quickly loses track and stops updating the issue status, because he…
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Best intro to Jira?

This is a bit of a broader question, but I hope this is the right place to ask. I think I need to provide a bit of backstory regarding my goals. We tried several different PM solutions (Wrike - interface was somewhat lacking, Redbooth - good UI but…
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Sort "Done" Jira Agile column

We are using Jira Agile and we have a board with columns: Ideas Next Up On Hold In Progress Done Cards can be moved from left to right with the goal of moving the card to done. Right now when I move the card to done it basically places it at the…
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Can you add a person to watch a JIRA issue?

In some cases, I'd like to let a teammate watch an issue, and be informed of whatever is going on about that issue, even though the issue is not assigned to him/her. Is it possible to add a person to watch an exising issue, without assigning the…
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Epic Feature User Story Tasks Hierarchy in Jira

How can I setup this hierarchy in Jira? Epic | +--Feature | +--User Story | +--Task I'm having trouble linking a User Story and a Feature to a Epic
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In Jira, how do you capitalizing the dev time for each story?

Right now we use Git Hub Issues for each project an individual engineer is working on. We're are making a transition to broader stories handled in Jira. We mark each task either Cap or Exp for accounting purposes so we can figure out how much of our…
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How to differentiate old bugs from new bugs during a sprint?

In a sprint where we fix old bugs as well build new features, we will encounter 3 types of "bugs" in in a scrum board: Bugs introduced by current stories Bugs newly discovered during sprint but are not from current stories Bugs previously…
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Kanban in Jira - Limit number of tasks in column

I'm trying to limit the number of tasks displayed in one of our columns (the one which holds the "solved" tasks), without success. I have changed the "MAX" column settings, but, it looks like it affect nothing. Still, all the tasks displayed in the…
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Billing customers from JIRA - is that possible?

Our development team works with Jira Software and we aim to use JIRA for other business processes inside our organization: Internal and external support; Customer success; Applications building; Implementation projects that are executed by business…
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Inside Jira how do I see boards from multiple projects in a single drop down?

We have 2 projects with the proper boards displaying their workflows accurately. Project A has one board. Project B has three boards. When i'm inside Project A i cannot see the boards from Project B and vice versa. I would like the 'boards' tab to…
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How to allow a user to access one project in JIRA?

I'm trying to manage this project on JIRA. I want to invite my client to create issues, modify them, and change their status, but all this in only his project. He can't see my projects list, he can't create issues in other projects. All he can see…
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JIRA - How to add flag to epic task

How do you add flag to an epic task in JIRA? On a normal task, you just right click it and "Add flag", but when it becomes an epic you dont get that option.
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Is there a way to "tag" portions of Sprint item descriptions and build documentation from it?

So, in the sprint item's Description, is there a way to enclose portions with some tags, like this: $region 1.0 Name of Chapter 1 (Description goes here.) $endregion And then later be able to build a documentation dynamically from all the tags from…
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Is there a way to setup a manual testing hierarchy in Jira that can be used iteratively?

Is there a way to setup a manual testing hierarch in Jira that can be used iteratively? For example, the following would be a hierarchy checklist: Testing Windows, iOS Windows Desktop, Windows Web, iOS Desktop, iOS Safari And then once checklist is…
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