Work on and progress your work items

Track the time spent working on work items for better schedule planning.

Estimate a work item in your backlog to predict how long it will take to deliver certain portions of the backlog.

Pin your most important, useful, and frequently used fields to the top of a work item.

See the reference for markdown and shortcuts in the new Jira Cloud work item view.

Flag a work item and it will display in yellow in various places on your scrum and kanban boards and backlogs.

Rank a work item according to its relative importance or urgency.

Add due dates to help your team prioritize what work gets done first.

Transition a work item to columns on a board that have workflow statuses already mapped to them.

Create links between work items to connect teams, dependencies, and related work directly on the board.

Duplicate a work item so you don't have to copy anything over manually.

Stay up to date on a work item with notifications when something happens, and share with your team.

Add context to a work item that plain text can't provide.

Reduce clutter on a work item by deleting attachments you don't need anymore.

Let your team’s personality shine.

Review all attachments in the attachments section of a work item from your own device.

Choose the most suitable view for your attachments and get the information you need.

Work with an attachment on your own device, the way you want.

Reduce clutter by deleting attachments you don't need anymore.

If you don't know where a field is, the work item has a quick way for you to find it.

Learn how your work item fields display dates and times depending on what language you choose.

Avoid duplicate attachments by reusing them.

If you don't know who to assign a work item to, use the Automatic option for the Assignee field.

Archive work items from your space instead of deleting them.

Help people recognize when they’re viewing or working on sensitive information.

Collaborative mode is Jira’s very own multiplayer experience. View your team's updates in real-time in business projects.

Learn about the Comment on work item action in Atlassian Automation

You can select multiple work items at once from the backlog and make simple bulk edits to those work items.

Understand how redaction works and how sensitive data is deleted.

Enable the goals field on work items to start linking your team's work to higher-level business objectives.

Use your keyboard to view and update work items in a list in Jira.

Learn how to share your work in Jira as a Smart Link.

Use global preview panels to see other content in a side panel.

View or edit your space's workflow and the status of your work items.

Learn about comments, history, work log, and how they fit into the activity section of a work item.

Get AI‑suggested work item updates in Jira from your Loom meetings, powered by Rovo, so your boards stay in sync with what was discussed.

Run a timeboxed standup right from your board with a simple, visual format to keep daily updates focused.