Jira software essentials : plan, track, and release great applications with Jira software / Patrick Li.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Patrick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

JIRA (Computer file).

Agile software development.

Project management--Computer programs.

Project management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Explore Jira Software to manage your projects proficiently About This Book Plan and manage projects effortlessly with Jira Software by integrating it with other applications Improve your team's performance with Scrum and Kanban, together with agile methodology Easy-to-follow learning guide to install Jira Software and understand how it fits in with Atlassian Jira Who This Book Is For If you want to get started with Jira Software and learn how to run your Jira projects the agile way, then this is the perfect book for you. You will need to be familiar with the basics of Jira, both from an end user's and an administrator's perspective. Experience with workflows, custom fields, and other administrative functions of Jira will be useful. What You Will Learn Understand the basics and agile methodologies of Jira software Use Jira Software in a Scrum environment Manage and run Jira Software projects beyond the out of box Scrum and Kanban way Combine Scrum and Kanban and use other project management options beyond just agile Customize Jira Software's various features and options as per your requirements Work with Jira Agile offline, and plan and forecast projects with agile portfolio Integrate Jira Agile with Confluence and Bitbucket In Detail 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 wil...

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Jira Software Basics

Introducing Jira Software

Installing Jira Software

Obtaining and installing Jira Software

Setting up Jira Software

Creating a sample project

Understanding Jira and its agile features

Agile board

Card

Issues and issue types

Fields

Workflows

Filters and JQL

Using Jira agile project templates for agile

Summary

Chapter 2: Jira Software for Scrum

Scrum

Roles in Scrum

The product owner

The Scrum master

The delivery team

Understanding the Scrum process

Creating a new Scrum board

Understanding the Scrum board

Creating new issues

Creating new epics

Estimating your work

Ranking and prioritizing your issues

Creating new versions

Planning sprints

Starting a sprint

Running parallel sprints

Working on a sprint

Completing a sprint

Reporting a sprint's progress

The sprint report

The burndown chart

The velocity chart

Chapter 3: Jira Software for Kanban

Kanban

Creating a new Kanban board

Understanding the Kanban board

Customizing your Kanban board

Visualizing workflow with Kanban

Setting up column constraints

Controlling which issues to show on the board

Organizing your Kanban board with swimlanes

Creating custom views with quick filters

Releasing a version in Kanban

Improving your team's performance

Improving the process with charts and reports

Cumulative flow diagram

Control chart

Customizing the control chart

Chapter 4: Using Jira Software Your Way

Managing your board

Controlling board scope

Managing board permissions

Enabling ranking

Customizing your board's layout

Working with columns

Jira and workflow.

Creating new columns

Setting up column layout

Working with swimlanes

Setting up swimlanes

Using quick filters

Creating new quick filters

Scrumban

Kanplan

Chapter 5: Customizing Jira Software

Customizing issue types

Adding new custom fields

Customizing Jira workflows

Authoring a workflow

Adding a condition to transitions

Adding a validator to transitions

Adding a post function to transitions

Managing Jira permissions

Global permissions

Project permissions

Issue permissions

Troubleshooting permissions

Managing Jira notifications

Enabling outgoing emails

Configuring notification schemes

Troubleshooting notifications

Chapter 6: Jira Software - Advanced

Displaying agile reports

Using the Jira dashboard

Using the wallboard

Integrating Jira with Confluence

Setting up an application link with Confluence

Creating Confluence pages from epics

Creating user stories from Confluence

Planning your sprints with team calendars

Capturing sprint meeting notes

Creating retrospective reports

Displaying your project in Confluence

Working with Jira agile boards offline

Chapter 7: Jira Software - Release and Deploy

Integrating Jira with Bamboo

Setting up an application link with Bamboo

Releasing a build from Jira

Deploying the release

Setting up a deployment plan

Running the deployment

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 6, 2018).

OCLC:

1022796184