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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.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Overview of Agile concepts

We now have Jira Software enabled in our instance. It's time to create a new project and get started; however, Jira Software enables your team to work using Agile-based methodologies and supports both Scrum and Kanban; hence, before we dive straight into the features of Jira Software, it makes sense to do a very quick walk-through of various Agile concepts.

What is Agile?

Agile is just a set of values and principles for development. It's a time-boxed, iterative approach to developing software incrementally instead of delivering it all in one go, hence making it easier to deliver it fast and efficiently. Agile practices are adopted by organizations mainly because the market these days is...