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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)

Who this book is for

This book will be especially useful for project managers, but is also intended for other Jira users, including developers, and any other industry besides software development, who would like to leverage Jira's powerful task management and workflow features to better manage their business processes. We will cover how to configure projects and boards, customize workflows, and manage project permissions in Jira. This book provides a comprehensive explanation covering all major applications of Jira, including Jira Software, Jira Service Desk, and Jira Core. It will cover planning and setting up a new Jira instance. We will talk about key features such as understanding the basic usage of the tools, setting up workflows for processes, and other things such as reporting in Jira and an understanding of various best practices.

Primarily, the book is focused on project managers, developers, and service desk agents, as well as business users with, of course, good exposure to Jira administration concepts.

This book will cover all the aspects of using Jira for project management, service desk operation, and business processes.