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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
11
Section 3: Advanced Jira 8

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to use Jira Service Desk to transform Jira into a powerful service desk solution. Jira Service Desk is designed based on many of Jira's out-of-the-box features, such as a workflow engine and search query (JQL), and provides a brand new user interface to remove the friction caused by the old Jira interface. This makes the overall experience a lot more pleasant for customers.

This is the final chapter and the end of our journey. Throughout this book, we looked at the various offerings in the Jira product family and how they can be used to bring value to your organization. Whether you need a project management tool to run agile projects, a service desk solution to support your customers, or simply a tool to better manage and track tasks, Jira has it covered.

We also looked at how you, as an administrator, can install, morph, and adapt...