Jira is a powerful and feature-rich software for managing projects and collaborating with your team. Here are some of the key highlights of the software.
You can use the Scrum board to break complex projects into manageable work for the team to help them focus better.
On the other hand, the Kanban board helps visualize the workflow and maximizes the team’s efficiency.
2. Roadmaps for Better Communication
Jira’s roadmap feature helps keep your team and organization in sync. You can use this feature to:
- Check progress on the complete project
- Track dependencies across projects, teams and initiatives
Jira supports a basic and advanced roadmap. You can use its advanced roadmap to utilize resources better and envision different scenarios.
The best part of Jira is that it is always in sync and provides you with up-to-date information.
3. Reports and Insights
Again, Jira gives you real-time insights to help make data-driven decisions. In addition, the agile reports of Jira help bring critical insights for all agile methodologies, including scrum and kanban.
Popular reports for the scrum team include:
- Sprint report
- Burndown chart
- Velocity chart
Popular reports for kanban flow are:
- Cumulative flow diagram
- Control chart
The intuitive dashboard of Jira provides a single view to organize projects and track achievements.
4. Drag and Drop Automation
Jira houses an extensive automation template library to ensure you don’t need to start from scratch to automate a task or project.
A few of the Popular templates of Jira for Automation are:
- Auto-assign issues
- Sync work
- Daily Slack Summary
You can use the drag-and-drop rule builder to create the if/then rule, and you are now all set for automation! The cherry on the cake is that the automation you create here works with all other Jira products.
