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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)

Jira Software reports

You've learned how to plan, estimate, and start the sprint along with various configurations that we can do in the board. We checked how the team can view their tasks in the sprint. Now, it's time to monitor the progress of the team. There're two reports that're of prime importance. One is the Burndown Chart. This chart gives a clear picture of the current status of the sprint. The second is the Velocity Chart. This chart helps us understand the capacity of the team in terms of how much work it can handle. These two reports help the Scrum master monitor the progress of the project. Let's take a look at both these reports.

The Burndown Chart

While planning the sprint, we primarily...