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Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

By : David Harned
Book Image

Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

By: David Harned

Overview of this book

As teams scale in size, project management can get very complicated. One of the best tools to deal with this kind of problem is JIRA. This book will start by organizing your project requirements and the principles of Agile development to get you started. You will then be introduced to set up a JIRA account and the JIRA ecosystem to help you implement a dashboard for your team's work and issues. You will learn how to manage any issues and bugs that might emerge in the development stage. Going ahead, the book will help you build reports and use them to plan the releases based on the study of the reports. Towards the end, you will come across working with the gathered data and create a dashboard that helps you track the project's development.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Creating an account with Atlassian

In this section, you'll learn how to create an account, and how to set up your JIRA software so that you can begin to use it for project management:

  1. Open the Atlassian website. You'll see that there's plenty of information about the company, some of the different software products that they have, and more. We'll go to the Try free button at the top of the page:
  1. You'll see that there are some options. We're going to use Jira Software. There is a server version and a cloud version:
  1. We're going to be using the cloud version, so let's select that. We can try it for free for seven days, and there will be some different options for it once it becomes a paid subscription. Since we're just a small team, we'll go ahead and take the first option, which is $10/month, and we will Try it free:
  1. On the following screen, we will be asked to go ahead and set up our URL. We'll choose digitalcoffeetest, and put in our Full name and Email, then add a Password:

Once we've done that, the website will go ahead and send us an email to validate the data that we just gave them. Once we check our email and validate that the information is correct, we can then go back to the site and log in.

All set! Creating an account is that easy.