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1. 5 tips
To make JIRA Admins’ life easier
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2. Recurrent time-consuming administration tasks
Create
users or
projects
Answer to
Monitor
performance user
questions
Edit any
Edit
other
workflows
scheme
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3. #1 Edit workflows
Workflow steps cannot be deleted
A step’s associated status cannot be edited
If a step has no outgoing transitions, it cannot have
any new outgoing transitions added
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4. #1 Edit workflows
Add a version number to your workflows and workflow schemes
Keep the last used version of each workflow in case of rollback
Without draft With draft
TEST WF v2
TEST WF v2
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5. #2 Edit any other scheme
Prefix your configuration entities
Use a scheme for each project type
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6. #2 Edit any other scheme
Prefix your configuration entities
Differentiate operation screens and transition screens
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7. #3 Monitor performance
Several tools are now available to measure
performance
HTTP Requests log analyzer
Database monitoring
JMeter performance tests
Documentation about number of custom fields
Slow requests logs
What about filters and dashboards?
Filters and dashboards are created but (almost) never deleted
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8. #3 Monitor performance
Delete unused filters and dashboards
Number of gadgets on a dashboard
jira.dashboard.max.gadgets option can be set to limit number of gadgets on
a single dashboard
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9. #4 Answer user questions
Frequently asked questions
Using Confluence :
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10. #4 Answer user questions
Link a FAQ page to a ticket
Display FAQ on JIRA dashboard
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11. #5 Create users or projects
Create a Project Request issue type
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12. #5 Create users or projects
Create a specific workflow and build a listener to
create the project
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13. Contact us
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