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Jira Quick Start Guide

By : Ravi Sagar
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Jira Quick Start Guide

By: Ravi Sagar

Overview of this book

Jira is an issue tracker and project management system. With their latest release, the Jira team has now expanded their user base to agile teams as well as business teams. This book provides a comprehensive explanation covering all major components of Jira, including Jira Software, Jira Core, and Jira Service Desk. This book starts with an introduction to Jira's unique features and how it can be used as an issue-tracking tool. It will then teach you about how a new project is created by a Jira administrator, what responsibilities there are, and using correct and relevant schemes in your project. You will then learn how to configure project workflows and fields for project screens. You will understand the various permissions used in projects and the importance of project roles in Jira. Then, the book talks about the concepts of versions acting as milestones and using components when handling issues in your projects. It will then focus on analysing data using built-in reports and creating dashboards in Jira. At the end, it will discuss various best practices for users as well as project managers or project administrators.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to use Jira Service Desk in your instance and understood the various configuration options it has to offer to make projects more relevant to your business needs.

Now you have enough knowledge of Jira fundamentals and you know how Jira Core, Jira Software, and Jira Desk Service projects are different from each other and their unique offerings. In the next chapter, we'll start with customizing Jira, which is applicable to all three types of Jira applications. We'll first start with understanding the concept of Jira Schemes and then we'll learn how to customize a workflow in our project.