AI Work Breakdown in Smart AI for Jira – Turn Issues into Actionable Subtasks in Seconds

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Managing complex tasks in Jira just got a whole lot smarter. With the latest AI Work Breakdown feature in Smart AI for Jira, you can now automatically generate subtasks from any parent issue—saving time, boosting team productivity, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.

💡 What Is AI Work Breakdown?

AI Work Breakdown is an intelligent feature built into the Smart AI for Jira app that helps you instantly break down high-level Jira issues into actionable subtasks. Powered by AI, this tool analyzes the parent issue’s details and creates relevant, ready-to-edit subtasks in seconds.

⚙️ Key Benefits

• ✅ AI-Generated Subtasks: Let the AI analyze your parent issue and generate logical subtasks automatically.

• ✏️ Edit Before Creating: Use quick actions to edit summaries, descriptions, assignees, and due dates before pushing subtasks to Jira.

• 🧠 Chat with the AI: Ask the AI to update, remove, or add subtasks—just like chatting with a teammate.

• ⚡ One-Click Actions: Accept or remove individual subtasks, or use the “Accept All” button to create them all in one go.

• 🔄 Real-Time Updates: See changes reflected instantly as you chat or use action icons—keeping your workflow smooth and intuitive.

🛠️ Manage Subtasks Your Way

Once the subtasks are generated, you can manage them using two intuitive methods:

1. Quick Actions

• ✏️ Edit Icon: Opens the Edit Page where you can modify the subtask's fields like summary, description, assignee, estimation and due date.

• 🖊️ Inline Editing: Click directly on the summary text to update it right within the list.

• ❌ Remove Icon: Instantly deletes a subtask from the generated list.

• ✅ Accept Icon: Immediately creates the subtask in Jira with a toast confirmation.

• ✅ Accept All: Create all the subtasks in a single click—no extra steps needed.

2. AI-Powered Chat Interface

You can ask the AI to:

• Add more subtasks

• Remove specific ones

• Update the summary or other details of existing ones—All through a natural, conversational experience.

🤖 Part of Smart AI for Jira

This powerful feature is included in the Smart AI for Jira app—your all-in-one assistant for smarter ticket handling, automated suggestions, and now, intelligent task breakdowns. It’s the fastest way to improve your Jira workflow efficiency using the latest in AI technology.

🧪 Ready to Try It?

If you're looking to automate subtask creation, streamline your planning, and let AI handle the heavy lifting—AI Work Breakdown is the tool for you.

✅ Available now in Smart AI for Jira

🚀 Designed to boost productivity and simplify issue planning

[Melbrin NGOUILOU]

That's very interesting. I used automations to do this not long ago and indeed the problem was the lack of dynamism since I had to specify the number and characteristics of the subtasks. With this solution, we'll be able to manage sub-tasks dynamically. My team will be delighted!

[Elie Iskandar - Infosysta Apps]

Hi @Melbrin NGOUILOU,

Thanks for your comment! We’re glad to hear that AI Work Breakdown provides the flexibility you need. It's great that it will help your team manage subtasks more dynamically. If you have any questions or feedback, don't hesitate to contact our support team!