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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

Jira permissions

Before we start diving into projects, we need to understand a little bit about permissions. Permission is a big topic, and we will cover it in detail in Chapter 9, Securing Jira. For now, we will briefly talk about permissions related to creating, browsing, and administering projects.

In Jira, there are several levels of permission:

  • Global permission: Create and delete projects and administer Jira configuration
  • Project permission: Browse and administer individual projects
  • Issue permission: Browse individual issues

Users with the Jira administrator global permission will be able to create and delete projects. By default, users in the Jira administrator group have this permission, so the administrator user we created during the installation process in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Jira Data Center, 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...