Key Concepts
A Jira workflow has different phases, statuses, transitions and various elements that are essential during the Project Lifecycle. Here are details of some phases:
1. To Do (Initial Phase)
- Status: Open
- Description: This is when an issue is identified, and it is added to the backlog. It represents that the task is yet to be started.
2. In Progress
- Status: In Progress
- Description: This phase indicates that work has started on a task. Team members are working on it and taking the process towards completion.
3. Review
- Status: In Review
- Description: Issues are moved to the review phase once the work is completed. In this stage, the quality, testing checks happen.
4. Approved
- Status: Approved
- Description: In this phase, the issue is reviewed, and it is considered for deployment, publication, or finalization.
5. Published
- Status: Published
- Description: From the approved phase the issue is moved to the published phase, which means that the work has been completed and is available to users.
6. Archived(Final Phase)
- Status: Archived
- Description: In this phase, the issues are no longer relevant and are kept for work experience purposes.
JIRA Workflow
Whenever you are working on a big project you always need a tool that keeps track of the task. This is where Jira comes in the role, Jira has lots of features that make the work easy. In this article, we will talk about Jira Workflows and learn how Jira will make teamwork easy.