New Features Jira Software 7.3.x:
Product Changes:
1. Jira Software: Video
JIRA Software is designed specifically for software teams, delivering best-in-class agile tooling, with
default best practices, deep developer tool integrations, and a focused project experience for your entire
team.
By merging JIRA's powerful workflow engine with the most important elements of agile development,
like flexible scrum and kanban boards, and real-time reporting, JIRA Software sets a new standard for
great software development.
1.1 Scrum boards
Agile teams can stay focused on delivering iterative and incremental value, as fast as possible, with
customizable scrum boards.
1.2 Kanban boards
Flexible kanban boards give your team full visibility into what’s next so you can continuously deliver
maximum output in minimal cycle time.
1.3 Agile reporting
Teams have access to more than a dozen out-of-the-box reports with real-time, actionable insights into
how their teams are performing sprint over sprint.
1.4 Delegate sprint management
New sprint permissions in JIRA Software give team leads, scrum masters, and end users more control.
By adding new levels of permissions, those working in sprints can be more agile and work the way
they want.
1.5 Add context to flagged issues
The new flag and comment feature brings flagging and commenting into a single action, so team
members always have context around why an issue is flagged.
1.6 Organize large bodies of work
To keep you organized, completed and closed epics, or epics from other projects, no longer appear in
the epic link field when you use the epic link dropdown.
1.7 Prioritize like a pro
JIRA Software has everything your team needs to organize work and plan a great sprint from
configurable agile boards with easy drag-and-drop prioritization to story point estimation.
1.8 Take visibility to new heights
Whether your team uses scrum, kanban, or a mixed methodology, JIRA Software supports the agile
framework that matches the way your team works. It also connects to your favorite developer tools so
that you can engage in code reviews, see build status, and follow software deployment status, all from
your team's board.
1.9 Release with confidence
To bring some sanity back into your release process, JIRA Software includes Release Hub: a single
dashboard that provides teams with real-time visibility into the status and progress of an upcoming
release. Release Hub mitigates risks, replaces status meetings, and provides a more confident and
stress-free release process.
1.10 Make JIRA Software your own
Use JIRA Software's new sidebar to create shortcuts to everything from your team's Spotify playlist to
helpful Stack overflow articles to requirement specs in Confluence. Having these important links in the
sidebar keeps everything related to your software team's project exactly where it should be: just one
click away.
1.11 Project level administration
We've extended the project administrators permission, so that project administrators can now edit their
projects workflow under certain conditions:
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The workflow must not be shared with any other projects
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The workflow cannot be the JIRA default system workflow, which cannot be edited at all
The project admins will not be able to edit the workflow to the same extent as a JIRA administrator.
The restrictions are:
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To add a status, the status must already exist in the JIRA instance i.e. the project admin can't
create new statuses or edit existing statuses
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The project admin isn't allowed to delete a status from the workflow
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The project admin can create, update or delete transitions, but they can't select or update a
screen used by the transition, or edit a transition's properties, conditions, validators or postfunctions
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This feature is enabled by default. When you upgrade to JIRA Software 7.3, all your project
administrators will have access to this feature immediately. To edit a workflow, a project
administrator should select Project settings in their project's sidebar, and select an issue type.
This will present the workflow, and Edit Workflow will be available.
2. Jira Core: Video
JIRA Core provides a purpose built experience for business teams and extends JIRA’s
fundamental workflow capabilities with specific templates for business teams.
2.1 Business project templates
Be fast. Use out-of-the-box business project templates to manage simple tasks and complex projects
alike. Customize the templates to match how your team works. Now every step is accounted for, and
your team can really move.
2.2 Task details
Be in the know. See what's happening with any project. The details of every task, plus comments,
attachments, and due dates are stored in one place.
2.3 Notifications
Use @mentions to get the attention of specific team members and stay informed with handy, detailed
notifications. You'll know right away when something is assigned to you, and when your feedback is
required.
2.4 Power search
Be organized. Use the search tool to find specific answers: a due date, when a task was last updated, or
what a team member still needs to finish. With project information all in one place, there's no more
digging around for information. It's right there.
3.5
Reports and Dashboards
Reveal "all the things" with reports and dashboards to help you understand how your team is doing.
Configure them and showcase the metrics that matter most.