You can define the lifecycle of a piece of work (known as an issue type) by setting up an issue workflow. Workflows represent business processes and allow you to set the statuses and transitions each type of issue goes through.

There are a few ways to set up workflows across all of your Jira applications: 

• Create your own workflow
• Import workflows from the Atlassian Marketplace
• Copy and edit the default workflow, an example of which is shown below