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JIRA 7 Essentials

You're reading from   JIRA 7 Essentials Explore the great features of the all-new JIRA 7 to manage projects and effectively handle bugs and software issues

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462510
Length 398 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Patrick Li Patrick Li
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with JIRA FREE CHAPTER 2. Using JIRA for Business Projects 3. Using JIRA for Agile Projects 4. Issue Management 5. Field Management 6. Screen Management 7. Workflow and Business Process 8. E-mails and Notifications 9. Securing JIRA 10. Searching, Reporting, and Analysis 11. JIRA Service Desk

Running a project with Scrum


As we have seen, JIRA comes with a number of project types, depending on what applications you have installed. The business project type, being part of JIRA Core, is available to all installations.

Business projects are very similar to how JIRA worked before JIRA 7, where it works as a highly customizable, generic task tracking system. The focus of business project type and its templates is for users to be able to easily create tasks and track and report on their progress.

Out of the box, you have three built-in templates, each with a set of predefined configurations, such as workflows and fields, to give you some idea on how to set up your projects. You can use them as is or customize them further based on your needs.

Creating a Scrum project

The first step to work with Scrum in JIRA is to create a project with the Scrum template:

  1. Select the Create project option from the Projects drop-down menu.

  2. Choose the Scrum software development template and click on Next.

  3. Accept...

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