Best Practices for Integrating Jira with Video Editing Workflows

[usama ghaffar]

I’m currently managing a video editing team. We're looking to integrate Jira to improve our workflow, track progress, and manage tasks more effectively. Can anyone share best practices or tips on setting up Jira for a video editing environment? Specifically, how can we create custom workflows and task types suited for video production stages (like scripting, shooting, editing, and reviewing)? Additionally, any advice on using Jira’s reporting and dashboard features to monitor our project timelines and team performance would be greatly appreciated.

[Brant Schroeder]

@usama ghaffar welcome to the Atlassian community

There are not any best practices for video editing.  You seem to have answered all of your own questions.  It is really about implementing your processes into the Atlassian products.  I have included some helpful information to help you move forward.

What type of work needs to be done (Scripting, shooting, etc.) these can be your issue types: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/what-are-issue-types/ 

What is the workflow for each type of work, these can be your custom workflows: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/work-with-issue-workflows/ 

You can use components to help label work as well if there are specific things you need to keep track of.  https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/what-are-jira-components/ 

Dashboards can display information that is important to you.  You can gather this through filters:

• https://support.atlassian.com/jira-work-management/docs/what-is-a-jira-dashboard/ 
• https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/manage-filters/