When you create a project in Jira, the first thing that you do is create some issues under it. When the issues are created, you may want to assign it to someone. The person who is supposed to work on the issue will then start working on the issue and will eventually resolve it. It is a very simple example of the life cycle of the issue in Jira, but there are many things happening in the background.
The way you work on the project, the kinds of issue you create, the fields you capture in the issue, and its life cycle stages and behavior, are defined by various schemes in a Jira project.
The project that we created earlier in this book involved utilizing the default template that comes with Jira. The default templates are nothing but a collection or set of various schemes. These templates help us to get started with Jira very quickly and, based...