From the course: Jira Core Concepts and Advanced Features by Pearson

Getting started with Jira - Jira Tutorial

From the course: Jira Core Concepts and Advanced Features by Pearson

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Getting started with Jira

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Hi, I'm Jim Weaver, and welcome to JIRA Core Concepts and Advanced Features. JIRA is one of the most widely used project management and tracking tools in the world, and we're going to explore this tool and learn about it in detail during this course. I've spent my career primarily as a software developer, but tool support for teams is something I've always enjoyed, and I spent a couple of decades helping both business and software development teams learn, adopt, and customize JIRA. We'll be hands-on with JIRA most of the time in this course, and primarily we'll be in JIRA Cloud, Atlassian's software-as-a-service platform for JIRA. However, we'll also spend some time in JIRA Data Center. So regardless of which platform for JIRA you plan to use, this course should help. We'll kick things off in lesson one by laying our foundations for the rest of the course, getting a firm understanding of JIRA's basic aspects and the core concepts that underpin all of its features. In lesson two, we'll learn how to use JIRA's boards, the most prominent feature in JIRA used to update and track the status of projects. In lesson three, we'll learn how to create and customize projects in JIRA, as well as boards for projects, for those cases where settings by JIRA at project creation aren't sufficient for a team. Organizing and planning work ahead of time is a critical project management activity, well supported in JIRA, and we'll learn about those features in lesson four. In lesson five, we'll learn how to find issues across projects in JIRA, and how to use the JIRA query language to refine issue searches. We'll also learn how to share JIRA issue searches with your teams. In lesson six, we'll learn about the graphical reports provided with JIRA, and how those can help you track various types of projects. In addition to reports, dashboards in JIRA provide real-time widgets to see the status of projects, and we'll learn how to create and share those in lesson seven. In lesson eight, we'll learn about the roadmapping feature in JIRA, which helps plan and share future work timelines for projects. We'll start to get into how to heavily customize JIRA in lesson nine, beginning with how to create custom issue types, fields, and screens. We'll continue in lesson 10, learning how to create custom workflows in Jira, which control how work items in your project change status as they're worked on, and also allow you to cause custom events to occur when items change status. In lesson 11, we'll learn how to manage team notifications and permissions for projects in Jira. And in lesson 12, we'll learn how to create and use automation rules for your Jira products that can save you from having to do certain types of work manually. In Lesson 13, rather than learn new features, we'll talk about choosing between various JIRA features for different types of information radiation needs. There are a few cases where the JIRA Cloud Platform has features that JIRA Data Center does not, and we'll discuss those in Lesson 14. Finally, in Lesson 15, we'll talk about some of the critical integrations you can make between Jira and other products that bring your team's even more useful features. Let's get started.

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