Jira checklists for software developments projects
In agile, defining what ‘done’ means and setting clear acceptance criteria are essential for ensuring that development teams understand and deliver on product requirements. Didit Checklists for Jira is the perfect tool to incorporate these definitions directly into your Jira issues, reducing the need for manual tracking and comments.
How Product Owners and Scrum Masters can employ checklists in their Jira projects:
1. Auto-Assign Checklist Templates by Issue Type
Standardize checklist usage across issue types by pre-configuring templates. For instance, an Acceptance Criteria Checklist can appear for every Sub-Task, a Definition of Done for Stories, and a Definition of Ready for Tasks. This ensures consistency and saves time in checklist creation.
2. Ensure checklists are completed with Jira’s Workflow Validators
Ensure quality by preventing issues from being marked as ‘Done’ unless all checklist items are complete. With Jira’s workflow validators, you can embed the Definition of Done directly into your workflow, making it impossible to transition an issue without completing each item.
3. Automatically complete or skip tasks with issue transition
You can automatically complete or skip tasks remaining in your checklist on an issue workflow transition with Jira’s post functions. This is useful if you would like checklists to be filled out automatically.
4. Automate Checklist Appending with Jira Automation
With Jira Automation, an Acceptance Criteria checklist can be appended to an existing Definition of Done checklist, when an issue transitions from ‘In Progress’ to ‘Done,’ Alternatively, you can choose from 10+ automation examples with Didit, here.
5. Visualize Checklist Progress from the Board View
Avoid opening individual issues to check progress by configuring custom checklist fields. From the board view, you can instantly see the percentage of completed acceptance criteria, giving you and your team an at-a-glance update on each issue’s status.
6. Document Completed Checklists in Confluence
For compliance and record-keeping, Didit integrates with Confluence, allowing you to copy the checklist URL from Jira and paste it directly into a Confluence page. The checklist will display as a macro, preserving the completed checklist for future reference on Confluence. Didit is the only app on the marketplace to provide a real-time sync between Jira and Confluence for its checklists.
Our Product Owner, Dominic would love to give you a personalized demo to showcase cool configurations like this and more for your software development projects on Jira.
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Dominic Spike
Didit Product Owner