Jira Software Essentials

By : Patrick Li

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Jira Software Essentials

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By: Patrick Li

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Overview of this book

Jira Software is an agile project management tool that supports any agile methodology, be it scrum, Kanban, or your own unique flavour. From agile boards to reports, you can plan, track, and manage all your agile software development projects from a single tool. Jira Software brings the power of agile methodology to Atlassian Jira. This second edition of JIRA Agile Essentials, will help you dive straight into the action, exploring critical agile terminologies and concepts in the context of Jira Software. You will learn how to plan, track, and release great software. This book will teach you how to install and run Jira Software and set it up to run with Scrum and Kanban. It will also teach you to use Jira Software your way and run projects beyond the out-of-box Scrum and Kanban way, including a hybrid approach of both the methodologies and other options that come with Jira Software. Later, you will learn how to integrate it with the tools you are already using and enhance Jira with add-ons such as Confluence. You will learn to stay connected with your team from anywhere to ensure great development. Jira Software has numerous deployment options in the cloud, on your own infrastructure, or at a massive scale. You will be introduced to Bitbucket, Atlassian’s distributed version control system, which integrates seamlessly with Jira, allowing your team to work within the two applications as one harmonious environment. With this practical guide, you will develop a great working knowledge of Jira Software and your project management will become much more efficient.

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Jira Software Basics

Introducing Jira Software

Installing Jira Software

Understanding Jira and its agile features

Using Jira agile project templates for agile

Summary

Jira Software for Scrum

Scrum

Creating a new Scrum board

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Jira Software for Kanban

Kanban

Understanding the Kanban board

Customizing your Kanban board

Releasing a version in Kanban

Improving your team's performance

Improving the process with charts and reports

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Using Jira Software Your Way

Managing your board

Customizing your board's layout

Working with columns

Working with swimlanes

Using quick filters

Scrumban

Kanplan

Summary

Customizing Jira Software

Customizing issue types

Adding new custom fields

Customizing Jira workflows

Authoring a workflow

Managing Jira permissions

Managing Jira notifications

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Jira Software – Advanced

Displaying agile reports

Integrating Jira with Confluence

Working with Jira agile boards offline

Summary

Jira Software – Release and Deploy

Integrating Jira with Bamboo

Releasing a build from Jira

Deploying the release

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Using quick filters

When you have a big project team, your board can get very busy. Sometimes you want to narrow them down and focus on issues that fit specific criteria, such as bugs, or issues that are assigned to a specific user.

By using quick filters, we can remove the unnecessary noise by filtering out all the issues that do not fit the criteria, letting you focus on the issues that you care about, as shown in the following screenshot:

You can think of quick filters as additional views for your Scrum board. For example, the preceding screenshot shows four quick filters for the Scrum board: Stories Only, Bugs Only, Only My Issues, and Recently Updated. By using the Bugs Only quick filter, you can get a view of your board showing only bug issues. You can toggle a quick filter on and off by clicking on it. When turned on, it will be highlighted in blue and update the board...