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Jira Quick Start Guide
Jira Quick Start Guide

Jira Quick Start Guide: Manage your projects efficiently using the all-new Jira

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Jira Quick Start Guide

Getting Started with Jira Core and Basic Usage

In this chapter, we'll understand how to get start started with using Jira for your project. We'll start by spending time on planning our Jira installation by asking ourselves relevant questions. We'll set up a Jira cloud instance and a project of the Jira Core type. We'll, of course, start by understanding how to work on a project as a user and we'll cover various aspects of the project interface.

We'll also learn how a new project is created by a Jira Administrator and, as a project manager, how you can ensure that the scheme used in the project is correct and relevant for your requirements. We'll spend some time understanding how to create an issue, work on it, and close it.

Topics covered in this chapter include the following:

  • Getting started with Jira
  • Using Jira Core for business teams
...

Getting started with Jira

In this section, we'll set up a Jira instance that will be used for the rest of this book to learn various aspects of the tool; however, just like when using any tool, we need to ask ourselves some questions regarding its usage and that is why planning is a very important phase that we need to discuss first. We'll quickly set up a Jira instance on Atlassian Cloud to get started on our journey.

Planning your Jira installation

In the beginning, even before starting your journey with Jira, you need to think about your expectations of the tool and ask some questions. Let's discuss these questions that will help you make a wise decision about implementing Jira in your organization.

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Using Jira Core for business teams

Great work, you have a Cloud instance of Jira ready. Now let's first get familiar with the basic features of the tool. Let's quickly create a project in Jira Core.

Creating a new project

Let's now create a new project in Jira:

  1. On the Welcome screen, click on the Create sample project button, as shown in the following:
Figure 2
  1. On the Create project with sample data screen, you'll be asked to select a template, which in this case would just be Project management, as we just have the Jira Core application in our instance. When we install Jira Software and Jira Service Desk, then more templates will appear in this screen. Click on the Next button:
Figure 3
  1. The next...

Summary

In this chapter, we first asked ourselves some important questions that helped us to plan our Jira installation, then we learned how to quickly get started with using Jira Core on Cloud by first signing up for a Cloud instance and then creating a project in our application. We finally spent time understanding how to work on an issue from start to finish.

In the next chapter, we'll understand how Jira Software works; we'll first quickly go through Agile concepts and then we'll learn to create both Scrum and Kanban boards. Finally, we'll take a look at key Agile reports.

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Key benefits

  • The book covers all major applications of Jira, which are Jira Software, Jira Core, Jira Service Desk.
  • Configure project workflows and the fields that will be used in the project with the help of Jira's features
  • Create tickets for issues and manage your projects using the Jira software

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

This book will be especially useful for project managers but it's also intended for other Jira users, including developers, and any other industry besides software development, who would like to use Jira for project management.

What you will learn

  • Implement Jira as a project administrator or project manager
  • Get familiar with various functionalities of Jira
  • Configure projects and boards in your organisation s Jira instance
  • Understand how and when to use components and versions in your projects
  • Manage project configurations and Jira schemes
  • Learn the best practices to manage your Jira instance

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Table of Contents

9 Chapters
Introducing Jira Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Started with Jira Core and Basic Usage Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Jira Software for Development Teams Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Jira Service Desk for Help Desks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Jira Schemes and Configuring Project Workflow Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Configuring Project Screens and Permissions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Reports and Dashboards Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Best Practices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Seann Ikon Sep 20, 2023
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I enjoyed the book. It was concise but covered the critical information. I recommend it for anyone working with Jira. I normally use AzureDevOps but I am working with Jira on my current project. This book was clutch…
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Revanth Kumar K Feb 17, 2022
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To much pricing
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Glosso Mar 03, 2023
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If you don’t notice bad writing, this book covers everything you need for configuring and using Jira.For me, the absurdly bad writing is distracting. I simply cannot read this book. It’s written in an amateurish style, not colloquial or informal, just plain bad. The only thing that’s right is the punctuation.Here are some examples:“As discussed previously, the adoption of the tool shouldn't be difficult and hence some effort is required to train the people involved in the usage of the tool.”A simple rewrite of this mangled sentence could be:“As noted previously, easy adoption and usability is the trademark of a good application. The training time for Jira is minimal.” Another example:“The tools used in organizations provide lots of value and have obvious benefits; however, a tool should justify its cost and maintenance. A tool may be flexible, provides lots of customization, and is easy to use by everyone but if it's too expensive to implement and set up, then it will be difficult for an organization to justify the benefit. There are plenty of tools and application that are flexible but are either too difficult to customize or require lot of effort.”All of the above rambling, typos and mismatched verbs and nouns can be stated as:“Jira stands out from its competitors because it is easy and flexible to configure and maintain, easy to use and reasonably priced. Its benefits justify its cost.”Consider this verbosity:“If you're wondering whether you should be using Jira or not, these benefits will help you decide. It's very important that we highlight them. The various benefits of using Jira are as follows:“All of the above can be stated as:“The cost justification and benefits of Jira are:” And instead of:“When you install Jira for the very first time, you'll find out that it's extremely easy to get started with the tool.”The writer could say: “Installing and using Jira for the first time is easy.”Redundancy is another distracting factor in this book. Notice that the quotes I pulled above are essentially saying the same thing repeatedly, an amateurish habit that renders the writing insufferable.One more example of the book’s inexcusable verbosity:“Jira is proprietary software developed by Atlassian and you need to purchase the license to use it. The licensing is based on the number of users you have in the team who will be using the system, and it's very straightforward.“A simple way to reduce that paragraph by 20 or so words would be:“Atlassian’s straightforward licensing process bases Jira’s price on the number of team members using it.”Beyond that, the writer does not know basic technical writing rules, like, when documenting software, just like if you’re reviewing a book or a movie, you refer to software behaviors in the present tense. This is a bit more abstract than basic and terrible redundancy, but, still, if you’re selling a technical book, it’s something you should know. Here’s an example.“When you open this link, you'll be presented with a screen as shown in the following screenshot where you can choose the deployment type—Cloud or Self-hosted—and then, based on the number of users, the license cost will be displayed to you:“Notice as well — and this too is at a bit more of a technical level — along with mixing present and future verb tense, the writer mixes active and passive voice, which is not something that the average reader cares about but again if you’re publishing a technical book and charging for it, you should.Another way to look at it is like this: If you watch movies from the 1950s, the soundtracks are distracting. You don’t have to be a composer to realize it. You just realize it sounds silly. Nowadays the best soundtracks are subtle; you don’t even notice them. They create ambience without distraction. That’s the way good writing should be. It doesn’t have to be great or perfectly formal, but it shouldn’t distract the reader. I’m sure a professional editor could go through what I’ve written here and find a dozen mistakes but hopefully the mistakes are not atrocious. This book is simply terrible and unreadable.That said, given that this book has many stellar reviews, I’m in the minority. As for me, I’m going to buy a different book, hopefully one written by a professional writer.
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Bought this to gain an insight into the correct way of doing things with Jira. It’s without a doubt the thinnest systems book I’ve ever read. Honestly, I could have written this myself given a week. Really not worth the money in any way.
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I did not find this book useful at all. Maybe it was written for an earlier version of JIRA.
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