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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, we looked at various best practices that you must employ in your organization when implementing Jira. The purpose of them is to not only ensure good performance of your instance, but to also ensure that administration of the instance does not become more difficult over time.

This was the final chapter in this book. Their purpose of this book was to get you started on Jira cloud instance quickly with a view to using them in your organization, but we also covered the customization aspects of Jira. We hope this book will empower you to start using Jira with confidence and we wish you all the best on your journey.