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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)

Working with permissions

We have implemented a significant number of customizations in our project. Now, let's take a look at one more configuration that will let you control who can do what in your project. Jira can be used by a small team comprising a few people to thousands of users in an enterprise and, with many people accessing a single instance, you may be worried about controlling your project permissions.

When you created the project earlier using a template, Jira created a number of default configurations and schemes, such as the issue type scheme, the workflow scheme, the issue type screen scheme, the permission scheme, and the notification scheme.

You can also create your own scheme with your own customized configurations. However, we can also use the configurations suggested by the template and later tweak them slightly. Let's now change the permissions...