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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

Jira permissions

Before we start working with projects in Jira, we need to first understand a little bit about permissions. Permissions are a big topic, and we will cover them in detail in Chapter 9, Securing Jira. For now, we will briefly talk about permissions related to creating and deleting, administering, and browsing projects.

In Jira, users with the Jira administrator global permission will be able to create and delete projects. By default, users in the Jira administrators group have this permission, so the administrator user we created during the installation process in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Jira, will be able to create new projects. We will refer to this user and any other users with this permission as a Jira administrator.

For any given project, users with the Administer Project permission for that project will be able to administer the project's configuration...