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For our client's Risk Issue Type in Jira, we configured 4 tabs on the Create Issue Screen to correspond to each of the four subgroups (Threat Agent, Vulnerability, Threat Impact, and Business Impact). On each of these tabs, the related factors were listed with dropdown menus ranging from 0 to 9 for assigning the relative risk rating of each factor.
A fifth tab was created to display the average Risk Ratings (0 to 9) and corresponding Impact Levels (Low, Medium, High) for the subgroups.
Working in Abacus
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- Overall Likelihood formula averages the 4 Threat Agent Factors and the 4 Vulnerability Factors
- Overall Technical Impact formula averages the 4 Technical Impact Factors
- Overall Business Impact formula averages the 4 Business Impact Factors
Next, an Execution Plan named "Severity" was created to determine when and how the formulas would run. The Issue Events "Issue Created" and "Issue Updated" were selected to trigger the formulas; now whenever an issue is created or updated, the formulas will run automatically.
Then, Execution Groups were used to display the Impact Levels for each of the average Risk Ratings. Using IF and ELSE IF statements along with JQL, we were able to Edit Issue Fields with the corresponding Impact Level.
Conclusion
Using Abacus and Jira together helped our client monitor the Likelihood, Technical Impact, and Business Impact of issues facing their company. Abacus can be used to create a wide variety of simple and complex numerical, date, and duration formulas. Is it time to solve your Jira?
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