From the course: Complete Guide to Jira Administration: Configuration, Management, and Automation

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Automation overview

Automation overview

- Other industries like manufacturing, finance, and healthcare all have automated standard processes to accomplish things faster and with less human error. We all have an endless list of Jira issues to work, transition and update. It's time for us to benefit from automation capabilities so we can focus more on doing and less on tracking what we're doing. In this chapter, we'll discover the different automation capabilities based on your application type, deployment type, and plan. Automation is making equipment, a process or a system operate automatically. For example, close the door to your backyard chicken coop at the same time every evening to protect your chickens from predators. Each rule has a name, an optional description, and a required scope, owner, actor, and associated settings, like what actions the rule performs and under what conditions. The role of automation in Jira is to improve efficiency by making tracking work faster and easier. Instead of making a phone call when…

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