Imagine your project being already overdue and the issues scheduled for the next release depending depend on issues in multiple different projects. Managing this is usually a nightmare, but with JQL Search Extensions for JIRA you can easily identify all issues blocking your project.
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Simply go to dashboard, select: "Create Dashboard", name it "Project blockers" ar
Step 1: Create filter with JQL query
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Step 2: Present data on the dashboard
Add:
- Filter Results gadget and use saved filter: "Issues blocking Search Project"
- Pie Chart gadget, use saved filter: "Issues blocking Search Project" and set statistic type to status
- Issue statistics gadget, use saved filter: "Issues blocking Search Project" and set statistic type to project
- Created vs resolved gadget, use saved filter: "Issues blocking Search Project"
Gadgets configured will give you a live insight into how your project depend on other projects, what are the exact issues that your project depend on, what is the status of these issues and if the dependencies are closed quicker than the new ones are created.