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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

Service-level agreement (SLA)

An SLA defines the agreement between the service provider (your organization) and the end user (your customer) in terms of the aspects of the service provided, such as its scope, quality, or turnaround time.

In the context of a support service, an SLA will define different response times for different types of support requests. For example, severity 1 requests will have a response time of 1 hour, while severity 2 requests will have a response time of 4 hours.

Jira Service Management lets you define SLA requirements based on response time. You can set up the rules on how response time will be measured, and the goals for each rule.

Setting up an SLA

Jira Service Management‘s SLA is divided into two components: the time measurement and goals to achieve. Time can be measured for a variety of purposes. Common examples include overall time taken for request resolution and response time to customer requests. To set up an SLA metric, follow...