Summary

In this chapter, we learned about some of the best practices to follow when planning, implementing, and organizing your automation rules.

We learned that you should plan your automation strategy upfront to align with your business and process objectives to ensure the ultimate success of your automation efforts in Jira.

We also learned that to ensure business continuity and to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, your rules should be properly documented in an external system such as Confluence and made visible to the appropriate team members.

Additionally, you should also understand the importance of maintaining external copies of your rules in a version control system such as Bitbucket or GitHub to ensure that any inadvertent breaking changes to rules can be quickly resolved by importing the last known working version of the rule.

Next, we learned how to approach rule writing with performance in mind by using the appropriate project scopes when defining automation...