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Employee onboarding is one of the most common repeatable processes in almost every organization. Yet many teams still treat each new hire as if the process had to be rebuilt from scratch every single time.HR prepares contracts and collects documents. IT creates accounts and provides equipment. Finance sets up payroll and benefits. Learning and Development...

At a glance: Reusable Jira templates work best when they are clearly marked, built using the real Jira issue structure, enriched with reusable content, and easy to find through filters or search. A consistent standard helps teams distinguish templates from live operational work, maintain template repositories more easily, and reuse proven structures across...

TL;DR: Atlassian’s hosting journey moved from Jira Server (2002) to early SaaS via Jira On-Demand (Oct 2011, “Everything à La Carte”), then to enterprise on-prem scaling with Jira Data Center (Jul 2014), and finally to a cloud-native platform with “new Jira Cloud” (Oct 2018). Jira Server support ended in Feb 2024. Jira Data Center is planned to reach end...

⭐ Introduction Have you ever wished you could define the values of variables in your Jira templates just before cloning – in a way that applies only to this specific clone operation? Traditionally, Jira smart values are tied to fields in existing issues. They’re great for Jira Automation, post-functions, and rule-based logic – but they rely on data already...

Bulk date update in Clone Expert for Jira: Automatically adjust dates when cloning Jira templates Working with repeatable workflows in Jira often requires using templates. Templates help teams standardize processes, eliminate manual copy-paste work, and ensure consistency across projects. Fields such as names, descriptions, URLs or responsibilities...

Every team faces recurring tasks — onboarding new employees, preparing release checklists, handling payroll updates, or managing IT requests. Although these processes bring real value, their repetitive nature can be draining. Recreating the same issues and subtasks manually in Jira is not only time-consuming but also prone to inconsistencies and errors.The...

What if you're utilizing team-managed projects, have your project templates, and want to avoid messing up the backlog with these templates?  There's a straightforward solution:  Create a distinct team-managed project named 'TEAM 1 TEMPLATES' with permissions granted to you and your team members.  Develop one or more templates within this...

In the previous article, we explored the concept of templates. Now I want to consider scenarios where multiple teams or across various projects could utilize the same template.   Let’s consider a very basic set of tasks required to release the app:  Application release on DEV   Testing on DEV    Application release...