Jira labels are a useful tool to ease your navigation in Jira. Filtering issues and tickets can definitely speed up the whole work, but it’s important to remember that it’s not a miracle tool. We create our own labels – it must be done in a unified not too obscure way. If we forget that, we can cause more problems and confusion than actually help you and interested parties.
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Instead of storing all kinds of labels in one Label field, with colored label manager you can create many label fields and manage them easily in an intuitive interface .
Create multiple-word labels without hyphens and underscores and add a description to your label to make context of uses more clear to your team .
Allow your team to define their labels, cleanup and organize them quickly with bulk powerful functionality
As a project administrator you can restrict a label field, in this case you prevent users to create new label items , they are required to choose existing ones. This fosters consistency across fields like Definition of Done (DoD), Definition of Ready, Acceptance Criteria, or Select list Field.
Generating powerful reports based on labels, there’s absolutely no coding required and certainly no need to learn Jira Query Language (JQL) for that matter. You can make fully customized reports just by selecting options from dropdowns.
Visualize and manage your Jira labels with at-a-glance quickness to save time and avoid mistakes-Make your issues more colorful.
Merge and delete duplicates – update misspelled or incorrect labels without having to go through each issue
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We can’t promise it’ll make you the Martha Stewart of organizing your stories without the 11 Best Practices to use Jira Labels for Effective Project Management .
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