Manual Jira processes slow teams down and introduce human error. The good news? With the right automation strategies, you can save hours each week, reduce mistakes, and keep projects running smoothly. That’s why we created the Six automation strategies for Jira guide; it’s a practical playbook with real use cases and admin tips.
Download the guide to see how to set up automations for approvals, synchronization, communication, and more.
What you’ll learn
- Six practical automation strategies for Jira Software, JSM, and Jira Work Management
- How to empower human decisions with workflow automation
- Creating smarter business processes without overcomplicating workflows
- Keeping projects in sync by automatically closing and updating work items
- Improving customer and team communication with automated triggers
- Bulk actions and repeat task automation to save time
- A bonus checklist for automating Jira with confidence
Automate smarter, not harder
Every team wastes time on repeat tasks: updating statuses, creating subtasks, chasing approvals. This guide helps you:
- Identify opportunities for automation across projects and teams
- Prevent compliance issues by enforcing approval steps automatically
- Sync projects and backlogs so reporting always reflects reality
- Reduce workload by automating ticket routing, expense reporting, and calculations
- Improve communication with built-in triggers, canned responses, and reminders
This guide is designed for:
- Jira administrators setting up multi-team workflows who are looking to cut down manual triage, enforce compliance, and keep workflows clean at scale.
- IT service managers leading JSM teams who want to automate ticket routing, speed up resolution, and improve SLAs.
- Project managers balancing delivery and reporting who need automated sync between work items, sprints, and backlogs.
- Business team leads using Jira Work Management who are looking to reduce repetitive tasks, standardize processes, and improve team efficiency.
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Written by Appfire automation experts with years of real-world experience. Learn from their successes and hard-learned lessons to help you and your team feel empowered to make decisions faster, create smarter and simpler processes, and more.
To ensure Appfire is providing and delivering the most up-to-date and best information to our users that depend on us, this article has also been expertly reviewed by Dan Tombs.
Dan Tombs is a Solution Architect at Appfire with hands-on experience across the Atlassian ecosystem since 2016. He’s worked with end customers, solution partners, and now helps teams thrive by shaping tools and processes around how they actually work and not the other way around. Dan champions automation as a path to scaling productivity, reducing context switching, and unlocking what teams do best.