Handing over issues to a new Jira assignee (some good practices)
Handing over an issue from one Jira assignee to another is more than pushing ‘assign’, changing the assignee, and hope for the best. A proper handover requires that the person who is receiving the Jira issue, knows the requirements and is able to commit.
With the flexibility of Jira, you can configure many different assignment approaches, such as: Throwing it over the wall, The traffic agent model, The ping pong game, Passing the baton.
This article explains some of this models.