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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)

Summary

Congratulations! You have now successfully started your journey of customizing Jira by creating your own workflow. In this chapter, we learned a lot, starting with an overview of various types of users in Jira and then we spent lot of time going through the process of creating a custom workflow and also using it in our existing project.

In the next chapter, we will continue customizing Jira further and take a look at how we can add more fields to our project by using screens and making sure that those new fields are visible only on a specific type of issue. We will also take a look at various permissions and learn how to modify them.