How using Templates can help your Agile Teams perform better
Agile methodology provides great patterns and approaches to streamline Software development and delivery processes. That’s why Agile Teams usually are very fast and flexible. They may adapt iteration length, standups timing, test and delivery processes to specific needs of Agile Teams and organization needs. However, at some point, you will need to settle down particular approaches, structures, and share across your teams.
Let your Agile Teams perform better
Why do you need Jira Issue Templates? Because they save the time of Agile Teams in a re-creation of company's processes, guiding Jira users on filling the most relevant information per Jira issue and helps to structure bug reporting to identify steps to reproduce.
User Story
User stories are short descriptions of a feature told from the perspective of the person who desires the new functionality, usually a user of the system. They typically follow a simple template:
As a [user], I want [goal] so that [some reason]
A common user story template helps the team to focus on the purpose of the story and the value it will deliver for customers. It may also use the Given/When/Then format to specify high-level acceptance criteria. Having properly prepared user story will let your Agile Team run faster with estimations on iteration planning meeting and define whether or not further stories breakdown required.
Bug Report
Help your QAs and other Agile Teams members report bugs consistently! Use Bug report template and speed up issue preparation process. This will guide the reporter to provide enough information to reproduce the Bug and get it reproduced and fixed by the team.
Epic Template
Preparing a bigger feature scope as a Jira Epic? Make sure you gather the essential information. Save the template to catch
the User story, Business goal, success criteria, reference to design, documentation and a placeholder for relevant user stories
Summary
This approach will help to save your team’s time on recreating company’s processes or Jira issue structures. Listed Templates could be easily created with Easy Templates for Jira issues application.