Set up an on-call schedule for a team

Create a custom on-call schedule

Communicate outages, maintenance, and other key information with stakeholders

Create a communication plan using Jira Service Management and Statuspage

Process a change record

Enrich a change request and champion approval

Manage change risk

Use the change calendar and automation to identify conflicts

Establish SLA goals and a working hours calendar

Constrain SLA goals based on your working calendar

Automate the lifecycle of a request

Use automation to handle recurring tasks

Establish a schema that can be used throughout Jira Service Management

Create a schema to enrich issues across Jira Service Management

Embed an Assets field in a customer-facing request form

Expedite resolutions by linking Assets data

Allow for approvals in a workflow

Demonstrate an example of how approvals work

Establish a knowledge base with organized articles

Deflect requests with knowledge base articles

Create a complex portal form

Understand how and when to use ProForma

Create contextual queues for agents

Contextualize and configure queues based on the job to be done

Add, remove, or modify a request type in the portal

Learn how to create and organize request types to serve customers

Cross-link tickets and/or articles to add context to an issue

Enrich a Jira issue with contextual links

Collaborate with non-agents in Jira Service Management projects

Learn how to work with non-agents using Jira Service Management

Report on issue data over time

Measure time-based and success-based metrics

Allow for approvals in a workflow

Outcome	Your team will understand how approvals work in Jira Service Management (JSM) and demonstrate an example.
Processes	Identify a use case Edit a workflow following best practices Add an approval Add approvers
Practice area(s)	Request management, change enablement, and problem management
Product(s) in scope	Jira Service Management (Premium or Enterprise)
Role(s)	Technical SME, Incident Manager, Problem Manager, Change Manager, Technical Lead, Team Member, and Administrator

Step	Process	Notes/References
1	Identify the workflow to modify and then select Edit.	Add an approval step to a workflow
2	Identify the status that requires an approval step and click the Include approval step checkbox. Then select Edit to complete the configuration.
3	The Approver source is the field specified above. Excluded approvers are anyone you want to prevent from executing this step.
4	Publish and test your workflow.

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