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Mastering JIRA

By : Ravi Sagar
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Mastering JIRA

By: Ravi Sagar

Overview of this book

<p>JIRA is an issue-tracking tool from Atlassian and has gained immense popularity in recent years due to its ease of use and, at the same time, its customization abilities and finely grained control over various functions. JIRA offers functionalities for creating tasks and assigning them to users and many useful add-ons can be added such as JIRA Agile for Agile tracking and Groovy scripts, a powerful tool for administering customizations for customizations.</p> <p>This book explains how to master the key functionalities of JIRA and its customizations and add-ons, and is packed with real-world examples and use cases. You will first learn how to plan JIRA installation. Next, you will be given a brief refresher of fundamental concepts and learn about customizations in detail. Next, this book will take you through add-on development to extend JIRA functionality. Finally, this book will explore best practices and troubleshooting, to help you find out what went wrong and how to fix it.</p>
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Mastering JIRA
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Atlassian support


When you purchase JIRA, you are entitled to get official support from Atlassian and they are quite responsive when you raise a support request. You can raise a support ticket with Atlassian when you are not able to find the solution yourself.

Atlassian Answers

We all learn with our experiences and it takes time to become an expert on a specific tool or technology. Atlassian has a great online community of fellow JIRA administrators and users. Here, they share knowledge with each other and also seek help. I recommend that before raising a support ticket with Atlassian, you should always try to find the possible solution on the Atlassian Answers online portal at https://answers.atlassian.com/.

In this portal, you can see the questions that other users have posted. You can go through these questions and also respond to them if you want to contribute and help others. Each question is usually marked with tags (such as jira, jira-administration, and confluence). You can click on...