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Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

This new and improved sixth edition comes with the latest Jira 8.21 Data Center offerings, with enhanced features such as clustering, advanced roadmaps, custom field optimization, and tools to track and manage tasks for your projects. This comprehensive guide to Jira 8.20.x LTS version provides updated content on project tracking, issue and field management, workflows, Jira Service Management, and security. The book begins by showing you how to plan and set up a new Jira instance from scratch before getting you acquainted with key features such as emails, workflows, and business processes. You’ll also get to grips with Jira’s data hierarchy and design and work with projects. Since Jira is used for issue management, this book will help you understand the different issues that can arise in your projects. As you advance, you’ll create new screens from scratch and customize them to suit your requirements. Workflows, business processes, and guides on setting up incoming and outgoing mail servers will be covered alongside Jira’s security model and Jira Service Management. Toward the end, you’ll learn how Jira capabilities are extended with third-party apps from Atlassian marketplace. By the end of this Jira book, you’ll have understood core components and functionalities of Jira and be able to implement them in business projects with ease.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Jira
4
Part 2: Jira in Action
9
Part 3: Advanced Jira

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at how Jira can stay in touch with its users through emails. Indeed, with today’s new gadgets, such as smartphones and tablets, being able to keep users updated with emails is a powerful feature, and Jira has a very flexible structure in place to define the rules on who will receive notifications.

We also very briefly mentioned some of the security rules about who can receive notifications. Jira performs security checks before sending out notifications for two very good reasons – first, there is no point in sending an email to a user who cannot view the issue; second, you will not want unauthorized users viewing the issue and receiving updates that they won’t know anything about.

In the next chapter, we will look into the security aspects of Jira and how you can secure your data to prevent unauthorized access.