Good Jira automation just stays out of the way and helps you get things done without thinking about it. But building good automation isn’t always easy, even when you go beyond Atlassian’s built-in capabilities and use add-ons.

1. JAMIE ECHLIN - ADAPTAVIST STAFF ENGINEER
& SCRIPTRUNNER CREATOR
How to break your Jira with bad scripts

2. What’s all this automation about?

3. git checkout –b bugfix/SSPA-13; git push

7. Could you have done that manually?
Sure.

8. Automation gives you superhuman powers.

9. With great power comes great responsibility..

10. Building powerful automation, responsibly

11. The three challenges of scaling
people

12. You can’t grow your business on people
alone

13. The three challenges of scaling
people process

14. Keeping your process in line
keeps everyone moving fast

15. With your process in place,
your tools can follow

16. Anatomy of a Disaster

21. Anatomy of a Future Disaster

29. Here’s a few tips…
To get you started with great automation

30. Environments

31. Environments

32. Testing brings confidence

34. Write your scripts to be portable

35. Write your scripts to be portable

36. Portability - Custom Fields

37. Idempotency

38. Use Services Not Managers
Manager Service
IssueManager IssueService
IssueLinkManager IssueLinkService
UserManager UserService
GroupManager GroupService
CommentManager CommentService
VersionManager VersionService

39. Use Services Not Managers

40. Use Services Not Managers

41. Scale

42. Scale

43. Scale

44. Scale

45. Scale

46. Limit Execution Time

47. Don’t forget to train and document

48. Comments

49. Self-documenting code

50. Always think about the future maintainers

51. • Consider the “bus factor”
• Self-review
• Be nice to your future self
Always think about the future maintainers

52. You can’t
prevent every
failure, be
prepared

53. Thank you!

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