The most helpful aspect and primary upside of using a Slack Connector for Jira (like the official Jira Cloud for Slack app or similar third-party connectors) is the elimination of context switching, which drives massive gains in team speed, visibility, and productivity. It essentially brings the project management, tracking, and issue-solving environment of Jira directly into the real-time communication flow of Slack, where teams are already working.

The ability to provide JIRA updates, ability to provide transparency, helps monitor progress.

You receive real-time notifications in Slack each time an event occurs in Jira.