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:

2. You'll see that there are some options. We're going to use Jira Software. There is a server version and a cloud version:

3. 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:

4. 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.