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Jira 8 Essentials - Sixth Edition

By : Patrick Li
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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

To get the most out of this book

The installation package used in this book is the Windows Installer standalone distribution, which you can get directly from Atlassian at https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download for Jira Software and https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/service-desk/download for Jira Service Management.

You will also need additional software, including the Java SDK, which you can get from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html, and MySQL, which you can get from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads.

Software/hardware covered in the book

Operating system requirements

Jira Software

Windows, macOS, or Linux

Jira Service Management

Java

MySQL

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself. Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

Experience in XML, Java, or the Groovy programming language will be useful to better understand the code snippets in the book.

Any errata related to this book can be found on the following link: https://github.com/packt-pradeeps/Jira-8-Essentials.