Battling Jira Custom Field Bloat

by Rachel Wright, Jennifer Choban

How many custom fields do you have? For most of us the answer is, “Too many!” ThinkTilt and Rachel Wright, author of the Jira Strategy Admin Workbook, have collaborated again to produce "Battling Jira Custom Field Bloat". This 35 page book helps you audit, delete, reduce, and manage your Jira custom fields. We’ve assembled our best advice and included the topics:

- How to Audit Your Custom Fields
- What To Do With All Those Custom Fields
- Deleting, Hiding & Merging Jira Custom Fields
- Reducing Jira Custom Fields Through Substitution
- Containing Jira Custom Field Growth
- 7 Custom Fields Every Jira Application Needs

Carefully planning your custom fields makes Jira administration easier. Use these strategies to limit new field creation and manage the custom Jira fields you already have. For more resources and information, please visit: www.thinktilt.com or www.jirastrategy.com

35 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 25, 2019

About the author

Rachel Wright is an entrepreneur, process engineer, and Atlassian Certified Jira Administrator.

She started using Jira in 2011, became a Jira administrator in 2013, and was certified in 2016.

She is the owner and founder of Industry Templates, LLC, which helps companies grow, get organized, and develop their processes.

Rachel also uses Atlassian tools in her personal life for accomplishing goals and tracking tasks. Her first book, the “Jira Strategy Admin Workbook“, was written in Confluence and progress was tracked in Jira!