6 Signs Your Team Needs This Advanced Label Manager for Jira

Label management in Jira is a critical task for jira administrators and project managers. Unfortunately, Jira’s native labeling system may not be suitable for teams who are scaling up or working on thousands of issues. 

The lack of tools to rename, deduplicate, visually differentiate, and track tasks creates bottlenecks out of inefficient searches, miscommunication, and wasted time. Better label management isn’t just beneficial, it is crucial. 

The Label Intervention Checklist

How do you know if you need a better label manager? Four common problems will pop up when your labels start to get out of control. If you find yourself nodding along to these four things, it’s time to get a label manager.

1. Difficulty in finding issues

If you’ve spent more than 5 minutes hunting down an issue twice in a week, then it signals the start of label problems. Time is precious and there are vastly better ways to spend yours instead of digging through issues for labels. 

At best, not being able to find an issue is inconvenient. At worst, you overlook urgent and important tasks that bring productivity to a screeching halt, costing your organization thousands of dollars.

2. Slow search

When you hit the ‘search’ button, it takes forever for Jira to pull up the labels you want. That’s an issue searchability problem, which happens to the best of managers and organizations, especially when the issues number in the thousands. 

However, it can also be caused by label bloat, where similar things are not consolidated under one label but given different tags.

3. Redundant and duplicate labels

You see one issue labeled “revision”. Then you see another labeled “update’. They are from two different people, asking about the same thing. Or perhaps you went looking for “EmailTest”, only to discover your teammate labeled it as “Email-Test”. Either way, the inconsistency leads to inaccurate reporting and a lot of frustration. 

4. Manual editing issues one by one

You just spent an indeterminate amount of time correcting label mistakes, deleting “sprnt-20” and “spring-20” to replace them with “sprint-20” because there wasn’t a way for you to bulk edit, merge, or delete existing labels. 

5. Unowned issues

You scrolled through the list of labels, but still don’t know who’s currently handling a particular issue. When an issue doesn’t have any visual indicators of its status, priority, or ownership, it opens up a communication gap. Project delays loom in the distance as you struggle to find the person in charge. 

6. Inaccurate reporting

You want to know how many issues there are in the “app” division. You want them divided by month, project, and owner. The dashboard shows that the “app” label only has 10 issues, but that’s not quite accurate because there are related issues labeled as “webapp”.

Advanced Label Manager for Jira (Custom Labels & Reports)

If you are afflicted by label chaos, then maybe it’s time you look for a label manager like Advanced Label Manager for Jira (Custom Labels & Reports). We created this Atlassian app to improve editing capability, search capability, visual differentiation, and reporting for your labels.

Pre-emptive label creation

Create labels according to a definitive naming system via the “Manage Labels” dashboard. This ensures that your team uses consistent, predefined labels that are easily recognizable. Combined with workflow automation, teams can focus on urgent tasks and important matters, thus avoiding costly delays. 

Create new Jira labels easily through the label management dashboard.

Bulk edit, merge, and delete

Take the tedium out of manually editing each issue with Advanced Label Manager for Jira (Custom Labels & Reports). Users can easily perform bulk updates across issues so that mislabeled items like “sprnt-20” and “spring-20” can be merged into “sprint-20” with a few clicks. As duplicates and redundant labels disappear, the speed at which your Jira instance responds should also increase, boosting your productivity.

Perform different bulk operations on multiple Jira labels through the dashboard

Custom color coding

Cognitive psychology has proven that color coding improves memory retention and processing speed. It’s no surprise that adding colorful labels to your Jira workflow helps people recognize relevant issues quickly.

Add a custom field for colorful labels to make issue recognition faster.

Enhanced search and tracking capability

Using the centralized management board, you can easily look for a label and find all the related issues under it. You can also track label usage via our label report function. When you drag and drop this Label Report on your project dashboard, it creates a handy little visualization of exactly how many issues are in which label, as well as category. The insights from these visualizations may be instrumental for jira administrators or project managers in making data-driven decisions.

Track Jira label usage and issue trends using ‘Label Report’ and ‘Labels (Advanced Label Manager)’

Ready to fix your label management?

Don’t let poor label management stifle your productivity. Every day without it just costs your team more time and effort. Each inefficiency has a compounding effect on the one before, and eventually snowballs into massive piles of wasted resources and missed opportunities.  

Enhance your efficiency and boost overall productivity today with Advanced Label Manager for Jira (Custom Labels & Reports).