Standardize Your Jira: How Development Teams Simplify Component Creation with Templates

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Welcome to the next chapter of our series on mastering Jira! We recently helped marketing teams perfect their webinar logistics, so what’s next? In this part, we're taking on one of the most fundamental workflows in the dev world: creating a new app component.

For development teams, creating a new app component often follows a predictable pattern. It’s like a recipe you know by heart: the ingredients might change, but the core steps (prep, cook, garnish) are always the same. You wouldn't re-create the recipe from scratch every time, so why do we do that with our development tasks? Manually creating and linking a set of repeating tasks for every new frontend, backend and integration is tedious and time-consuming. This is a perfect example of a repeatable process that cries out for streamlined issue templates.

The Silent Drain on Developer's Time

First of all - let’s get this out there: manually creating and linking these tasks every single time is draining, especially on your team's velocity and focus. It's a waste of valuable developer time that could be spent on building and innovating. Moreover, this repetitive work adds up fast, as a result slowing down your team and distracting them from their core responsibilities. This is the silent cost of an unstandardized process: it’s not just a minor annoyance, but a constant drag on productivity.

The Automation Blueprint

So, how do you free your team from this repetitive grind? The solution is to create a template that automates this predictable process. By building an agile template for a "New App Component," you can create all the necessary linked tasks in one go. You apply the Jira templates to an existing issue, and it instantly generates all the sub-tasks for frontend, backend and integration. This kind of hierarchy template allows you to ensure nothing is missed and that every project has a solid foundation.

The Power of an Instant Template

To put this automation blueprint into practice, you need a tool that can handle the complexity. With an app like Issue Templates Agent, you have the power to apply issue templates in Jira directly on existing items. This means you don't have to create tasks from scratch. You simply apply the template and the sub-tasks are created instantly. This simplifies issue creation and ensures you never miss a step.

With the app, you can:

• Apply issue templates to existing issues to create sub-tasks instantly.

• Standardize the creation of recurring tasks, like new app components.

• Free up your development team to focus on coding, not on administrative tasks.

Auto-complete existing items with templates.

Your First Step: Finding the Pattern

With all these benefits, where should you start? The most important first step is to identify a few of the most repetitive tasks your team performs. What's the common structure of those tasks? What information and sub-tasks are always needed? Once you have the structure defined, you can use it to build your first template and start automating.

More Time for What Matters

Automating the creation of recurring tasks with a Jira template is a simple but transformative way to streamline your development process. It's about working smarter, not harder, and making sure your team's time is spent on what matters most - solving complex problems and building great products.

See It in Action

Ready to see how to apply a template on an existing issue and more? Join us for a live demo at our webinar.

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