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Jira 8 Essentials - Fifth Edition

By : Patrick Li
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Jira 8 Essentials - Fifth Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

Atlassian Jira enables effective bug tracking for your software and mobile applications and provides tools to track and manage tasks for your projects. Jira Essentials is a comprehensive guide, now updated to Jira 8 to include enhanced features such as updates to Scrum and Kanban UI, additional search capabilities, and changes to Jira Service Desk. The book starts by explaining how to plan and set up a new Jira 8 instance from scratch before getting you acquainted with key features such as emails, workflows, business processes, and much more. You'll then understand Jira's data hierarchy and how to design and work with projects. Since Jira is used for issue management, this book delves into the different issues that can arise in your projects. You’ll explore fields, including custom fields, and learn to use them for more effective data collection. You’ll create new screens from scratch and customize them to suit your requirements. The book also covers workflows and business processes, and guides you in setting up incoming and outgoing mail servers. Toward the end, you’ll study Jira's security model and Jira Service Desk, which allows you to run Jira as a support portal. By the end of this Jira book, you will be able to implement Jira 8 in your projects with ease.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Introduction to Jira 8
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Section 2: Jira 8 in Action
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Section 3: Advanced Jira 8

Password policy

In most cases, unless you are using a single sign-on solution, you will be using a username and password combination to log into Jira. So, you will want users to choose strong passwords that cannot be easily guessed. If your organization is already enforcing a password policy and centrally managing authentication, such as via LDAP, then all you have to do is integrate Jira with it and you are good to go. However, if this is not the case, Jira comes with the ability for you to set a password policy to make sure your users do not choose simple, guessable passwords. To set up a password policy for Jira, perform the following steps:

  1. Browse to the Jira administration console
  2. Select the System tab and then Password Policy
  3. Choose from one of the available options, with the Custom option allowing you to specify your own requirements
  4. Click the Update button to apply the...