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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
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Preface

Configuring agile boards


Now that we have seen how to use JIRA Software to run both Scrum and Kanban projects, let's take a look at how to customize our agile board. Since JIRA Software is built on top of JIRA Core, many of its customization options leverage the core features of JIRA. So if you are not familiar with some of these features, such as workflows, do not worry, we will cover these in high level in context of agile board, and dive into the details of each in later chapters.

Configuration columns

For both Scrum and Kanban, the board's columns are mapped to the workflow used by the project and the default workflow created is very simple. For example, the default Scrum workflow contains three statuses: To DoIn Progress, and Done. However, this is often not enough, as projects will have additional steps in their development cycle, such as testing and review. To add new columns to your board, follow these steps:

  1. Browse to your project's agile board.

  2. Click on the Board menu and select...