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Jira Quick Start Guide

By : Ravi Sagar

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Jira Quick Start Guide

By: Ravi Sagar

Overview of this book

Jira is an issue tracker and project management system. With their latest release, the Jira team has now expanded their user base to agile teams as well as business teams. This book provides a comprehensive explanation covering all major components of Jira, including Jira Software, Jira Core, and Jira Service Desk. This book starts with an introduction to Jira's unique features and how it can be used as an issue-tracking tool. It will then teach you about how a new project is created by a Jira administrator, what responsibilities there are, and using correct and relevant schemes in your project. You will then learn how to configure project workflows and fields for project screens. You will understand the various permissions used in projects and the importance of project roles in Jira. Then, the book talks about the concepts of versions acting as milestones and using components when handling issues in your projects. It will then focus on analysing data using built-in reports and creating dashboards in Jira. At the end, it will discuss various best practices for users as well as project managers or project administrators.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

To get the most out of this book

Free Chapter

Introducing Jira

Introducing Jira

The problems Jira solves

What are the main benefits of Jira?

How to decide which application to use?

Deployment options

Getting Started with Jira Core and Basic Usage

Getting Started with Jira Core and Basic Usage

Getting started with Jira

Using Jira Core for business teams

Using Jira Software for Development Teams

Using Jira Software for Development Teams

Using Jira Software for development teams

Overview of Agile concepts

Is Jira suitable for development projects?

Jira Software reports

Using Jira Service Desk for Help Desks

Using Jira Service Desk for Help Desks

Using Jira Service Desk for help desks

Overview of Helpdesk

Creating a Jira Service Desk project

Using Jira Service Desk

Configuring Jira Service Desk

Jira Service Desk reports

Jira Schemes and Configuring Project Workflow

Jira Schemes and Configuring Project Workflow

The various types of user in Jira

Overview of various schemes in Jira

Customizing Jira workflow

Configuring Project Screens and Permissions

Configuring Project Screens and Permissions

Adding new custom fields in Jira

Understanding Jira screens

Using the custom field in our project

Transition screens

Working with permissions

Reports and Dashboards

Reports and Dashboards

Jira Core reports

Jira Software reports

Jira Service Desk

Creating and sharing dashboards

Best Practices

Setting up a change control board

Documenting your configurations

Not creating too many statuses

Not creating lots of custom fields

Using project roles over groups

Not modifying default configurations

Jira customization process

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Using Jira Software for Development Teams

In this chapter, we'll understand how Jira Software works. We'll first learn how to enable Jira Software in our Jira Cloud instance, then we'll quickly create a new Jira Software project. We'll spend some time going through an overview of Agile concepts before looking at the Scrum and Kanban methodologies and discussing the key differences between them. Finally, we'll discuss important Jira Software reports to analyze your progress in the project.

Topics covered in this chapter include the following:

Using Jira Software for development teams
Overview of Agile concepts
Is Jira suitable for development projects
Scrum board
Jira Software reports
Kanban board