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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

Project browser

The project browser is the interface that most users will use with Jira. It acts as the home page of the project, providing useful information (such as recent activities in the project) reports, and information from other connected systems, such as source control and continuous integration. The actual project browser interface depends on the project type, so it will vary from project to project. For example, the Scrum software development project will display the issue backlog or an agile board as its default view, as shown in the following screenshot:

For business projects such as general task management, the project browser will display an activity stream showing the latest updates in the project, as shown in the following screenshot:

To access the Project Browser interface, simply select the project from the Projects drop-down or the project list via the View...