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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 spent some time understanding how to add more custom fields from the users and also used them in our project by working on the screen. We also learned what transition screens are, and how they are different from normal screens. Finally, we modified the permissions of our project and restricted access to our project to a limited set of users. Although we only modified a single permission, knowing the right way to modify it is very important.

In the next chapter, we will look at the reporting capabilities of Jira. It is very important to know how to analyze the information that is already collected in our instance. Understanding how to track our progress using various reports and dashboards is a must-have skill that every Jira user and administrator ought to know.