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Jira 8 Administration Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Patrick Li
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Jira 8 Administration Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

Jira is a project management tool used widely by organizations to plan, track, and release software. Jira administrators are at the heart of these processes and need to know how to successfully administer and customize Jira offerings. This updated Jira 8 Administration Cookbook demonstrates how to efficiently work with Jira Core and Jira Service Desk. The book starts with a variety of recipes to help you manage users and workflows. You'll learn how to set up custom forms and capture important data with custom fields and screens. Next, you'll gain insights into the latest email capabilities, which will assist you with everything from managing outgoing email rules to processing incoming emails for automated issue creation. Later, you'll be guided through running scripts to automate tasks, getting easy access to logs, and even working with tools to troubleshoot problems. The book will also ensure you understand how to integrate Jira with Slack, set up SSO with Google, and delegate administrator permissions. Finally, a dedicated section on Jira Service Desk will enable you to set up and customize your own support portal, work with internal teams to solve problems, and achieve optimized services with Service Level Agreement (SLA). By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to extend and customize your Jira implementation effectively.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Collaborating with your internal teams on service requests

The traditional workflow of a service desk involves a customer raising a request, and an agent working with the customer to come up with a solution. This usually works in scenarios where the problem is simple and straightforward to solve. However, in many real-world situations, the problem can be complicated and may require multiple people from different teams to collaborate together in order to resolve it.

In this recipe, we will explore how to collaborate with people outside of the standard support team. Normally, you will run a single Jira instance host for both your service desk and engineering projects, so it is very easy to collaborate together in a single system. In this recipe, we will look at a more complex scenario, where the support team is using a Jira Service Desk instance, and the engineering team is using...