Making JIRA admin easy: Extract and deploy from one JIRA to another with Spectrum

So you are a JIRA admin in control of an instance your organisation uses on site, or even overseeing multiple JIRA instances across multiple sites. You’re the one who looks after every aspect of all projects.

It’s a familiar situation to a lot of us. It’s a lot of responsibility: you’re looking after the custom fields, workflows and workflow schemes, different screens and screen schemes and every other component which holds the project together.

And then you’re approached by management and asked to move a project from one JIRA instance to another.

The pressure is on

It’s not an easy task to move one project from one JIRA project to another, let alone multiple projects. There’s a lot you need to keep track of.

Not only do the JIRA versions themselves need to match, but everything else, from issue type schemes to workflow schemes to custom fields and more has to match as well. Just one inconsistency could leave you lost.

It’s often troublesome and almost always time consuming.

Better process management for JIRA admins

The good news is that it doesn’t have to be such a time consuming process. In fact, it can be easy. When you’re faced with these challenges, Spectrum’s process management capabilities make it very easy to move projects from one JIRA to another.

Yes, that’s projects, plural!

How?

Meet the Spectrum Workbench. 

From here, you can use Spectrum’s Process Manager to extract all the building blocks of a project and save it as a file. You will then be able to deploy that file into any other JIRA. If anything is missing, be it a custom field or a workflow, Spectrum will automatically create it for you in the background or will ask you to re-use existing one if it matches. This will save you a lot of precious time and effort. Once all the building blocks are in place you can then use standard JIRA functionality to import a project or multiple projects.

What’s more, you can  keep track of all the processes and examine them at any time using Spectrum Workbench as it gives you a full breakdown. The Process Manager’s diff capability even allows users to compare two versions of a Process Specification file.

If you’d like to see the Workbench’s Process Manager in action and experience first hand how Spectrum makes life easier, please don’t hesitate to get in touch via Clearvision-cm.com and SpectrumCloud.io. Arrange a free demo of Spectrum today!