Jira: Getting Started

UNDERSTANDING JIRA’S MAJOR CONCEPTS

Jim Weaver
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

@tenoxtweets
 Beginner Course

Not Covered Covered!

Installing or administering Jira Using and customizing boards
Comparing Jira to other products Understanding workflows

Installing plugins Finding and reporting on issues

Creating custom fields or issue types Using and customizing dashboards

Advanced issue query Using Jira with a code repository

Jira Fundamentals! Basic project creation

 Module
Overview
Key Jira concepts
Sample project introduction
Jira navigational tour
What is Jira?

Project Status tracker

Whiteboard tracker

Great for distributed teams

Feature rich

Older brother to Trello

 Jira Products

Jira Core Jira Software Jira Service Desk

Core product features Specialized features Specialized features
shared by all Jira for agile software for help desks
products, basic project development
tracking
 Jira Server vs. Jira Cloud

Jira Server Jira Cloud

Installed on-premises or Hosted by Atlassian
in a private cloud
 Jira Key Concepts

Board Project Workflow

Issue Filters

To Do In Progress Issue Type Dashboard

Status

Fields
 Jira Issue Grouping Concepts

Epic Label Component Version

 User Concepts

Project

Project Member
Group User (Role)
 Carved Rock Projects in Jira

Fitness Tracker mobile Grand opening project

app project
Meet Rachel!
Carved Rock’s owner
Creates and assigns issues
Administers projects
Meet Anne!
Software developer
Changes status of issues as she works on
features
Meet Bob!
Software developer
Meet Jake!
Shift manager preparing for the opening
Changes status of non-software tasks
 Module Understand central Jira concepts and
Summary how they relate to one another
Preview of the sample projects we’ll be
working with as we learn Jira
Understand basic Jira navigation for both
Jira Server and Jira Cloud
Ready to to start digging into features!