Our marketing department (works with @Sutton, Andrew recently adopted Jira/Confluence lately, and this appears it'll be a very refreshing release to enhance our current workflow and hopefully solve some of our workflow and content calendar challenges. I'm very excited to test and use this functionality!
I guess I would argue in this case that they are doing what needs to be done. This is a "fix" or revamping of the existing Jira Core product. The new features are anything but half-baked and are very helpful for our organization.
I hope you’re right, but I have seen it over and over again from Atlassian. Like the new advanced roadmaps, where you can edit custom fields, but not for example the status.... where atlassian adds and removes features, on each release. Not too mention dozens of feedback, just to get back two months later the response, sorry but no. Or the new roadmap in the jira, another concept of a feature
What is the difference between Jira Software and Jira Work Management?
From what I can see Jira Work Management is the light version of Jira Software but has nice features, such as Calendar View and List view which are not included in Jira Software.
Basically, both are task management systems, and a team can do all the stuff in Jira Software without, Jira Work Management.
Looks great- however one thing I find is often missing from such solutions is multiple assignees. In certain industries its simple not possible to split everything in single person chunks, but instead work is managed in groups or teams with fluctuating members.
I hear what you're saying pnedeljkovic. What's helped me is to try to think of the assignee as the owner. So even if several people are working on an issue, there's usually a single owner.
@Max Sudik - You are basically correct, except that Jira Software does not the have the Calendar function, nor the inline editing list function, nor the built-in form creation/display function. So there are definitely differences between the two.
@pnedeljkovic - you can get lots of arguments in the Community both ways as to whether it is a good idea to assign a single issue to multiple people at one time.
That being said, a lot of people would disagree that there is functionality lacking in Jira to provide that functionality if it is an inherently bad idea. Not starting that discussion here - but I don't think the thing you say is "missing" will happen anytime soon, if at all.
However, many people will create a custom field of either a multi-user picker type or a group picker type and allow multiple people (or a group) to be associated with a single issue.
And as @Sutton, Andrew says, it would probably be good to think of the Assignee as the owner of the card - I actually prefer that terminology.
The timeline features here look promising, and are maybe the feature I'm asked about the most. We've looked at plugins to do similarly but for the cost, they didn't quite suite our needs. If it were possible to preserve and perhaps visualize the Epic/Story hierarchy from Jira Software projects that would be a win/win. I have colleagues who would benefit from having both the structure and the timeline tools in one project type.
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April 15, 2021 edited
Hi @ahernandez , custom field types are gradually being rolled out to the list view as we speak! For example, you should now be able to see text fields and edit them in-line on the list.
@FrantzenMike - There is just a calendar function that has been added to Jira Core/Business projects. This is independent of Jira Premium. The calendar function is built in and not a separate add-on or tool.
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April 29, 2021 edited
@Josh Allen right now we're still exploring this idea, so there won't be any move towards team-managed projects for quite some time (if ever). We did add a new permission setting, however, that will enable Jira admins on JWM-only instances to give their end-users the ability to create projects from the default list of templates. Hope that's helpful!
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April 29, 2021 edited
@Jeff Patterson-admin Jira Work Management will be a cloud-only product. This was a difficult decision, so feel free to email me at cwilson@atlassian.com if you have ideas about how we can improve the JWM Cloud experience.
We recently announced our plans for data residency on all paid editions of Jira Cloud, and performance is significantly improved across all Jira Cloud products. In particular, all of the new JWM views are incredibly performant. While that's probably not enough, we want to keep improving the product and (truly) want to hear your feedback!
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