Project | A project is pre-configured with issue types, a workflow, screens and fields |
Board | The central tool for working with issues. A board is created for every project. |
Dashboard | For example to show «issues assigned to me» |
Issue | …, issue types might be: Bug, Change Request, Story etc. |
Component | used to group issues. |
Workflow | defines the states (such as Open, In Progress etc) and edges between them through which an issue travels |
Field | |
Initiatives | A collection of epics |
Screen | a collection of fields that is displayed at a time |
Label | |
Issue types
Depending on the applications, there are different default issue types.
Jira Core
Task | Work that needs to be done |
Substask | A task is finished when its subtasks are finished |
Jira Software
Epic | Typically the one parent issue type for a software project |
Bug | |
Task | |
Subtask | |
Story | aka «User story»: a short requirement or request, written from the perspective of a user. The smallest definable unit of work. |
Jira Service Management
Change | |
IT help | |
Incident | |
New feature | |
Problem | |
Service request | |
Service request with approval | |
Support | |