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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)

Documenting your configurations

The worst nightmare of Jira administrators is a Jira instance with hundreds of workflows and other customizations without any idea of their purpose. Jira instances can grow big very quickly in an enterprise setup and that is why it is absolutely imperative that the configurations executed in the tool from the very outset are documented in detail. It may seem cumbersome, but once it is done from the very beginning, it helps the Jira administrators a lot in maintaining the instance. You need to ensure that, with every customization undertaken in the tool, and not just at the start but on an ongoing basis as well, the document is also updated.

Documenting is important because, when a new person joins the team of Jira administrators, they can always refer to the documentation to understand the purpose of the configuration. This document should ideally...