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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)

Overview of various schemes in Jira

When you create a project in Jira, the first thing that you do is create some issues under it. When the issues are created, you may want to assign it to someone. The person who is supposed to work on the issue will then start working on the issue and will eventually resolve it. It is a very simple example of the life cycle of the issue in Jira, but there are many things happening in the background.

The way you work on the project, the kinds of issue you create, the fields you capture in the issue, and its life cycle stages and behavior, are defined by various schemes in a Jira project.

The project that we created earlier in this book involved utilizing the default template that comes with Jira. The default templates are nothing but a collection or set of various schemes. These templates help us to get started with Jira very quickly and, based...