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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)

Using project roles over groups

Maintaining a Jira instance, especially in a growing organization, can be a daunting task. There are a number of activities that can only be done by Jira administrators, so you should ensure that project administrators are also able to manage their projects as much as they can. This is especially true when more people are added to the project. There are many configurations, such as permissions, notifications, and workflows, that are based on users. When creating these configurations, if you use a Jira group instead of project roles, then your project administrators are dependent on you to add/remove people, but they do have permissions to manage their own team of users using project roles.