Hey there! I hope you're having a great day. I'm curious, what's the most complicated project you've ever managed with Jira? I'd love to hear your experiences and insights!
Hello everyone!
In my case, I think the most complicated project that I had to configure and manage was one for risk management that included the migration process from Excel to Jira, with more than 3,500 risks from 4 countries. A plan-management-risk structure (epic-issuestandard-subtask) to be able to organize the management and the corresponding automations for the calculation of the inherent and residual risk at the management and plan level.
It was a great challenge.
While working as an Atlassian consultant, I built a project for a client who wanted to use it as a "front end" for their code deployment system. Looking at the tool it was replacing and looking at the process they were trying to mirror, it must have been created in the early 90's - the resulting project had something like 45 distinct workflow statuses, and most transitions had 4 or 5 validators to make sure different fields were populated and different approvals were met. They also had some pathways that could only be accessed by specific types of issues, owners, or other conditions, so there were often 3 or 4 transitions between the same statuses with their own conditionals. All of these needed to set different fields or trigger other actions, so we had a combination of automation rules and post functions set up as well.
It was...not very pretty or scalable. The worst part though was that in an effort to save costs, they decided to do the discovery and design in-house, using their Jira Server instance. The project was to implement this on Cloud though.
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