I like the focus brought about with the "My Work" screen. It would be really nice if there was a way in that view, to separate what I have been working on lately, from what I"m going to work on today. Being able to focus on one or two tasks today has always been my biggest challenge when using Jira. My team is not in software development, and we use a Kanban style board. In any given week, each team member has about 5-10 tasks they are working on, so even for a small team of 6 people, as their manager, it makes it very difficult for them individually, and for me to see what they are working on today. Having more tools to focus on today would be very useful.
To call this top nav menu an improvement is a bit misleading. JIRA used to have a top nav menu that worked great for years, but then Atlassian changed it to the awful left side menu that everyone hates (likely without much quality community testing/feedback). While this new change to move the nav menu back to the top, and basically function how it did previously, could be considered an improvement, let's be honest and call it what it really is... a revert.
Do we have to have Jira Labs turned on to access the new navigation? Because I want an experience as close to Server as possible, with Classic projects and the New Navigation. I do not want to see next-gen project anywhere and I'll be annoyed if we have to turn Jira Labs back on in order to get the new look. As the Atlassian Admin for this large corp, I told everybody to turn off Jira Labs due to the "next-gen"-style forms on classic project causing errors when using addons.
I don't really get it... My Displays are getting wider and wider (4:3 -> 16:10 -> 16:9 -> 21:9 -> ...) I have a lot horizontal screen estate - it's the vertical space that's limited.
If i now let the Navigation take up a full line of space on the Top of the screen, i'll lose space for viewing Backlog Items or Sprint-Cards etc.
so far i prefer the (collapsable) navigation on the sidebar
It'd be GREAT if the "Your Work" page, which is a homepage, could be changed to whatever page is appropriate to each individual, based on their needs.
Some people may want their "My Work" page to be a specific project they're currently working on, and be able to change it when they're working on a new project. Or a Dev Tech may want his "My Work" page to be a specific filter, dashboard, etc ...
The ability to edit the "My Work" page allows each user to take control over their work.
I agree with Luis Dias. During the preview via the Google Chrome addon, the Dashboard was the one that was set to the homepage, I was disappointed to learn that the dashboard as the homepage never followed onto the live version. I personally look at the dashboard for my type of work, for QA testing, developing and managing
Reflecting on the side panel, I think the real problem was that it took two clicks to get to the "Main Menu"... I just use the . to navigate around Jira anyway, but I think if there was a way to get back to the Main Menu with a single keyboard shortcut or click, people would have liked it more (you get buried once in a project and have to resurface through multiple clicks). With that said, since you wanted to go back to the top nav, two huge wins would be:
Allow us to collapse it (most power users don't need it when they are doing work and it takes up a ton of space)... make it a keyboard shortcut only if you really want (and only show something in the UI when it is collapsed to be able to pull it back down... for those that hit the shortcut by mistake)
Allow us to control what is on it (we don't want People or Apps)
My instances would prefer to only have Dashboards and Filters show at the top (keep it really clean just like this Community interface that has a single dropdown)
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