Documentation prior to JIRA 6.x

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Jul 19, 2014
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Installation

Jira Risk Management

How to setup and configure the plugin.

  1. Install the plugin using the UPM or copy the jar into your JIRA home directory underplugins/installed-plugins/ in which case you will need to restart JIRA
  2. Go to the plugin's configuration pages: Administration > Plugins > Other > Risk Management
  3. Upload license key: Click Upload License Key and paste in your license key in the text field. Submit the form.
  4. Configure custom fields: Go to Administration > Custom Fields and add two custom fields for the Probability and Consequence values.
    • Recommendation: Make the fields of the type Select List. Add to each of the fields values 0,1,2,3,4 and 5. Make 0 the default value.
    • Recommendation: Name the fields "Risk Probability" and "Risk Consequence".
  5. Create two new filters and save them. Set Column Order for the filters. The Column Order of these filters decides the default layout of the report and project tab.
    • Tip: If you want the same layout for both the report and project tab you only need to create one filter
  6. Go to the plugin's configuration pages Custom Fields and select the two nearly created custom fields. Submit the form.
  7. Go to the plugin's configuration pages Filters and specify the user name for the user that created the filters. Submit the form. Select the two nearly created filters. Submit the form.
  8. Go to the plugin's configuration pages Custom Fields and add a new custom field of the typeRiskManagementCalculatedCustomField.
  9. Reindex Jira
  10. Now you can add the Risk Management gadget to your Dashboard, view the RiskManagement report from any projects Browse Project page or a Project Tab.
  11. You probably want to Set Column Order for your saved filters again to include "RiskNumber".
  12. Done.

 

FAQ

Frequently ask questions
  • Why must I add two custom fields of type Select List?

The plugin uses a standard approach to calculate a the risk of an issue.

The product of the probability for a risk to occur and the consequence (impact) if the risk occur gives the Risk Number.

Therefore you must add two custom fields for probability and consequence. Please note that you can name the fields whatever suits you best. 

 

  • Why must I add the custom field RiskManagementCalculatedCustomField ?

This is the field that calculates the Risk Number.

Please note that you must only add one single custom field of type RiskManagementCalculatedCustomField


  • Why do I need two saved filters?

You need a way to configure which fields (columns) to show in the report and project tab

By setting the column order for a saved filter, the plugin can extract the column order for the filter and use that to display the right issue fields in the report and project tab. 

 

  • Which issues should the filters display?

It doesn't matter. The plugin only uses the filters to extract the column order .

This is flexible way to reuse Jira standard functionality in order for you to design the report and project tab layout. 

 

  • We use other boundaries for what is low, medium and high risks.

You can configure this under Misc Settings

  • I rather use some different colours in the matrix.

Then you would have to edit the HTML in the velocity files.

To do this, unpack the jar and make the changes, and then zip the jar again. 

 

  • The plugin doesn't support my language.

You can localize the plugin by adding a new file with your language code and the labels you want. Some labels are also configured in the plugin's configuration pages. 

  • You must unpack the jar, add the file and then pack it all together again. 

  • I rather use some other labels.

You must unpack the jar, edit the label property file and then pack it all together again. 

 Some labels are also configured in the plugin's configuration pages.