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JIRA 7 Essentials - Fourth Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA 7 Essentials - Fourth Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

Atlassian JIRA is an enterprise-issue tracker system. One of its key strengths is its ability to adapt to the needs of the organization, ranging from building Atlassian application interfaces to providing a platform for add-ons to extend JIRA's capabilities. JIRA 7 Essentials, now in its fourth edition, provides a comprehensive explanation covering all major components of JIRA 7, which includes JIRA Software, JIRA Core, and JIRA Service Works. The book starts by explaining how to plan and set up a new JIRA 7 instance from scratch for production use before moving on to the more key features such as e-mails, workflows, business processes, and so on. Then you will understand JIRA's data hierarchy and how to design and work with projects in JIRA. Issues being the corner stone of using JIRA, you will gain a deep understanding of issues and their purpose. Then you will be introduced to fields and how to use custom fields for more effective data collections. You will then learn to create new screens from scratch and customize it to suit your needs. The book then covers workflows and business processes, and you will also be able to set up both incoming and outgoing mail servers to work with e-mails. Towards the end, we explain JIRA's security model and introduce you to one of JIRA’s new add-ons: JIRA Service Desk, which allows you to run JIRA as a computer support portal.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JIRA 7 Essentials - Fourth Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating new agile board for project


When you create a new project using the Scrum and Kanban project template as described earlier in this chapter, JIRA will automatically create an agile board for your project. Along with this default board, you can create additional boards for your project.

For example, if you created a Scrum project, and you have two teams working on the project. You can create a new Scrum board for the second team, so each team can work with their own agile boards and not get in each other way. Another example will be if your second team needs to run their part of the project using Kanban. You can easily add a new Kanban board to the Scrum project, so each team can use the agile methodology they want for the same project. To add a new agile board to your project:

  1. Browse to your project's agile board.

  2. Click the current board's name from the top left-hand corner, and select the Create board option.

  3. Select the agile board type you want to create, and follow the onscreen wizard...